Commodity Trader
Location: London
Employment Type: Full-Time
About the Role
Our client, a trading firm, is seeking an experienced Commodity Trader to join their dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of trading strategies across energy, metals, and agricultural markets, leveraging fundamental and systematic approaches to deliver strong performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and maintain supply-demand balances across liquid energy, metals, and agricultural commodities.
- Develop fair-value pricing models based on balances and related inputs.
- Design and back-test systematic trading strategies informed by fair-value and balance data.
- Enhance base balances using improved forecasting techniques and novel datasets.
- Support portfolio-level hedging and positioning with a fundamental perspective.
- Trade major benchmark markets such as WTI/Brent crude, natural gas, power, coal, and base/precious metals (LME/COMEX).
- Monitor macroeconomic trends, geopolitical events, weather patterns, and supply-chain developments impacting commodity pricing.
Candidate Profile
- Master’s degree in Economics, Mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline (preferred).
- Minimum 5 years of experience in commodity trading or a closely related role.
- Strong analytical and modeling skills with experience in systematic strategy development.
- Deep understanding of global commodity markets and key drivers of price movements.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.