Job Description
With the trend of EU end consumers focusing more on health and sustainability the Cefetra group increased its trading activities in trading specialties (organic grains/proteins, pulses, small grains, etc.).
The Cefetra group is seeking a market analyst who can strengthen the team by improving price discovery of specialties. Your analysis will be used by traders to enhance their decision making. You will be working closely with market research but also with quants, traders and risk management in our Rotterdam office.
The specialties market analyst is responsible for the entire process of price discovery. From collecting price and fundamental data to forecasting prices. The specialties market analyst will join an established team with data engineers, quants and fundamental analysts of grains and oilseeds.
Goals and objectives:
Setup from scratch supply & demand balance sheets for specialties by:
- Investigate needs & possibilities.
- Collect, structure & clean data
- Setup database/structure to store the data
- Make forecasts into the future
Forecast specialty prices by:
- Identify price drivers
- Collect prices
- Leverage supply & demand data
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Create & maintain supply & demand for specialties
- Understand & cover agriculture markets and the impact it has on specialties
- Keeping close contact with our specialty traders
- Support overall Market Analysis team
What you will bring
- Interest in agriculture markets & trading
- Bachelor/Master in Finance/Economics
- Excellent excel skills
- Fluently English
- Self-starter & high motivation.
- Entrepreneurial
Interested?
If you are interested in this vacancy, send your CV and a short motivation letter to Kim van der Meer (HR Manager) kim.vandermeer@cefetra.nl
BayWa is an international trading and services company in the agricultural sector with 17,000 employees worldwide and a turnover of approximately 15 billion euros. Our core business segments are Agriculture, (Renewable) Energy and Building Materials. Including franchise and partner companies, the Group has about 3,000 sales locations in 17 countries. Cefetra office in Rotterdam, operating as BayWa Agri Supply & Trade or BAST, is the divisional headquarter of the agricultural commodity trading and supply operations of the various Cefetra offices and includes shared services for the divisions across Europe.
Within the BAST group (Cefetra entities) we buy, sell, and distribute, in many countries, a total traded volume of around 25mln tons yearly. The traded volume mainly consists of grains and oilseeds used in the feed, food and fuel industries in Europe. By making use of both quantitative and qualitative analytics we support our trading and operational activities. Based on our 2024 strategy our aim is to extend our functional activity with specialty products, sustainable products and services to diversify the overall BAST portfolio.