Commodity Freight Analyst

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Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill’s global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.

Job Purpose and Impact

The Commodity Freight Analyst will be responsible for conducting highly complex trading analytics efforts. In this role, you will provide analysis of markets and other economic considerations, development and deployment of highly complex models, tools and processes to influence the team to make strategic trading, risk management, margin enhancement and asset utilization decisions.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead the development, enhancement and execution of highly complex models and processes to forecast and describe price, supply and demand, relative value and global trends.
• Provide timely, accurate and actionable insights to trading team and key customers to drive decision making.
• Coach peers on the connections between the analysts and trading team, demonstrating the connection between market and benchmark analytics and the value added to the trading teams.
• Develop, coordinate and support initiatives for technology and data for trading data analytics in conjunction with stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership for new data, technology, tools and innovation and establish processes to efficiently gather relevant data.
• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• Knowledge of trading business, risk management and an understanding of what information adds value
• Ability to influence global teams to build consensus around trading strategy
• Ability to quickly take disparate information and derive actionable insights
• Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems and execute under tight timelines
• Experience with commodity supply and demand fundamentals and economics
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Other minimum qualifications may apply
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree
• Experience in dry bulk commodities and/or shipping
• Experience with complex modeling, coding, data science and big data management