Executive: Global Trading & Export Strategy (56612) at Ntice Sourcing Solutions

Key Focus Areas

Global Price & Market Strategy

• Lead the full export pricing programme: market analysis, derivative strategies, timing and levels of pricing.
• Manage the derivative portfolio, ensuring margin financing is aligned with market movements.
• Recommend pricing actions to the industry's pricing committee and execute mandates efficiently.

International Customer & Market Relationships

• Develop a sustainable long-term marketing strategy for export.
• Build strong, credible relationships with international and domestic refiners, trade houses, regional producers, and brokers.
• Integrate supply chain efficiencies with customers to improve returns.

Export Sales, Shipping & Freight Management

• Determine the timing and quantity of export availability.
• Negotiate global export contracts with a focus on maximising FOB returns.
• Create annual export marketing plans that balance demand, freight exposure, contract commitments, operational constraints and terminal capacity.
• Oversee shipping operations, freight contracting, and ensure all documentation is flawlessly delivered.

Quality Strategy 

• Monitor global competitors' quality standards and refine local quality specifications.
• Manage terminal segregation and quality incentive schemes.

Financial Risk, Reporting & Budgeting

• Forecast export proceeds, including sensitivities, for industry-level decision-making.
• Prepare monthly reports that directly influence grower payments.
• Oversee operational budgets for exports and both terminals.
• Manage credit risk insurance, USD flows, and support treasury with financing requirements.

Strategic Influence & Stakeholder Reporting

• Guide industry-wide strategy through insights, analysis and proposals.
• Prepare high-quality reports, recommendations, and presentations for multiple stakeholder committees.

Leadership

• Lead and develop a specialist team across international marketing, quality, freight, and terminal operations.
• Ensure adherence to governance, ethics, HR policies and organisational values.

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or a relevant field (post-grad advantageous).
• Commercially sharp, strategically minded, analytically strong and thrive when navigating global markets.
• Understand commodities, trading dynamics, international freight, risk, and the sensitivities of a regulated or industry-wide environment.
• Diplomatic, influential, calm under pressure and comfortable making decisions that impact large financial outcomes
• 5+ years' senior/general management experience in international trade, commodity trading, freight, logistics or supply chain.
• Exposure to agricultural commodity trading.