The Skills You'll Need: Coffee, Commodities, Analysis, Strong Excel

Your New Salary: £60-85K plus generous benefits package

Hybrid: 3 days in office (Central London), 2 at home

Status: Permanent Role

Start: ASAP, notice considered

Working hours: 9am – 5.30pm, Monday – Friday (37.5 hour week)

Who You'll be Working For:

International commodity merchant.

What You'll be Doing:

Coordinate external sources of market relevant data & information and combine with data flowing to the research desk from global origination teams & merchandising centres. The successful candidate will be responsible for enhancing and fully utilising the advantageous data held across the wider group. As Coffee is a leading commodity within the company, the individual will deal with a diverse range of stakeholders & customers across the business, for which research is a key part of their business.

• Manage a large and complex database of coffee statistics ensuring that production data is up to date and accurate. With focus on exports, imports, trade flows, stocks, local prices/differentials and consumption trends.
• Regular reporting for internal and external use, such as; weekly reports, meeting summaries and monthly updates.
• Host and minute regular internal coffee trade meetings, ensuring agenda is always relevant to driving forces within the market.
• Prepare presentations for customers across the different profit centres aimed at supporting the trade and sales teams.
• Engage fully with an internal network of agronomists and local origin specialists to help inform your centralised research.
• Analyse the markets and keep traders updated with important insights.
• Keep up to date with the other commodities, such as cocoa and cotton and identify innovative methods & techniques that could be used to strengthen coffee analysis.

The Skills You'll Need to Succeed:

• Experience within a commodity environment or similar.
• The successful candidate will have specific experience in coffee and/or other soft commodities (sugar, cocoa etc.), with the ability to pragmatically evaluate markets and data and clearly communicate an innovative view of the coffee market.
• Customer-focused approach to ensure reporting is tailored for end users, and a good understanding of physical and futures markets.
• Strong communication and organisation skills are a must in the role
• Confidence to present to senior level staff
• A high level of Excel is essential.

We would be grateful if you could send your CV as a Word document. If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 7 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs. Please note that we can only consider candidates who are eligible to work in the UK and are able to provide relevant supporting documentation.

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