Location: Wilton, CT, USA (Hybrid: 4 days office + 1 day remote)
Join Louis Dreyfus Company as a Soybean Oil Trader and play a critical role in shaping the commercial success of one of North America's most important edible oil businesses. You'll serve as the primary point of contact for key refined soybean oil customers, developing strategic partnerships while driving profitable growth, and combining market intelligence, customer engagement, risk management and trading expertise. You'll work closely with operations, logistics, credit, quality, and global trading teams.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Lead US refined soybean oil salesperson / marketer overseeing key customer relationships.
- Onboard new customers, defining quality and documentary needs as well as credit requirements.
- Develop and implement the refined soybean oil sales strategy to maximize commercial margin.
- Map key customer accounts, define target sales volumes and track open demand against free-to-sell.
- Maintain detailed knowledge of customer operating dynamics, logistics requirements and supplier preferences.
- Identify opportunities to trade around cash hedges and use oilseeds calendar spreads to manage asset risk.
- Provide market intelligence to guide hedge positioning, pricing and risk management decisions.
- Manage discussion around asset oil inventories, factoring in production and inbound/outbound logistics.
- Coordinate customer shipment requirements with logistics and operations.
- Guide oilseeds and FFS teams on merchandising/sales strategy for refined soybean oil.
- Identify cross-selling opportunities within LDC's edible oils and ingredients portfolio.
- Guide US oil consumptive analysis and challenge global oilseeds balance sheets and their influence on US S&Ds.
- Ensure timely entry of trades and validate daily positions and P&Ls.
- Build relationships with third parties to expand information flow and distribute regular market updates.
- Follow all CBOT, NOPA and trade rule developments; participate in strategic planning.
Working conditions & offer: Occasional extended hours across global time zones and some travel. Benefits include medical/dental/vision, 401k with company match, parental leave and family benefits, PTO and paid holidays, and flexible work where applicable.
How to apply: Apply through the LDC careers page (SmartRecruiters).
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