This position will be responsible for merchandising grains and oilseeds with specific emphasis on origination into a river or export terminal and supporting all merchandising efforts.
Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Aggressively originate commodities by developing a rapport with local farming/commercial community through direct communication
- Report real-time market information on the Louis Dreyfus intercompany chat system
- Organize and execute FOB bushel ownership program
- Dispatch trucks
- Work to achieve “last right of refusal” for bushels brought to market
- Devise and execute origination strategies for commodities
- Participate in daily conference calls reporting market information to regional traders
- Compose market wires
- Build and maintain long term relationships with customer base
- Participate in customer visits and industry social events
Additional Responsibilities
- Gather news, statistics and information related to individual commodity supply and demand from customers and trade sources, and distribute that information to the remainder of the group to support overall strategic trading/positioning (i.e., contributes to research function)
- Identify, qualify and capture new business
- Learn CINCH, Compuweigh and probing / grading operations.
- Participate in regular crop tours to assess conditions and potential yields to anticipate markets.