Junior Freight Trader

Job highlights

• Full time
• Baar, Zug, Switzerland
• Chartering

Job ID R200000759 Closing date 31/07/2024 Last Updated 14/06/2024

We are looking for a motivated Junior Freight Trader to join our Coal team at our headquarters in Baar. This will involve working closely with other traders and team colleagues as well as with people in other departments, companies and field offices. You should be a resilient and committed person, not afraid of high pressured and fast-paced working environments.

The main tasks and responsibilities include

• Pricing of internal and third party voyage rates
• Monitoring and updating the freight and bunker positions
• Maintaining and updating the fleet position list
• Other tasks and responsibilities as the Company may see fit
• The role is 100% office based

The ideal candidate

• is efficient, able to work in a time-sensitive setting, very well organized, detailed and comfortable in using IT applications (MS Office)
• has the ability to integrate into and to work well in a multicultural team and fast-paced environment
• has an independent, flexible and entrepreneurial work attitude and high motivation to solve problems
• has proven negotiating skills
• willing to embrace a diversity of tasks and responsibilities
• aims to improve processes and procedures to maximize efficiency
• able to work and communicate with people from various multi-cultural backgrounds inside and outside the Company

Qualifications and requirements

• At least 3 years of commercial experience within freight trading/chartering
• Familiarity of global trading routes
• Understanding of hedging practices and management of trading position
• Familiarity of IMOS vessel operating system and Sedna
• Proficiency in English (both verbal and written), any further language is an asset
• Holding a Swiss work permit or passport holder of CH / EU

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Benefits

• We are committed to providing benefits, which promote mental, physical, and financial well-being. From healthy meal options in our restaurants and bistros to free use of the in-house gym including sport classes with professional trainers.
• We reimburse public transport for commuting to work; alternatively, we offer free parking space.
• We provide tuition assistance for further education and training courses.
• We have a competitive parental leave policy. Our childcare benefits also include emergency childcare services and financial assistance towards daycare costs.
• Employees’ Swiss Pension 2nd pillar is fully paid by Glencore.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.

With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.

Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.

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