Move as a Team

Your Next Move Doesn’t Have to Be an Individual One.

If the right opportunity works better for the group, explore it together.

Some of the strongest teams in commodity markets are built over years.

You know how each other works. You understand your clients. You have established relationships, complementary strengths and a proven way of generating business together.

So when the time comes to consider what might be next, moving individually is not always the right answer.

Imperium facilitates confidential Team Move and team lift-out conversations for experienced professionals across international commodity trading, brokerage, origination, shipping and related markets — from two or three colleagues through to established trading desks and larger commercial teams.

You don’t need an advertised vacancy.
You don’t need to have decided to leave.

You simply need to be open to discussing what the right opportunity could look like.

A Team Move Can Start in Different Ways

SMALL GROUP OF COLLEAGUES

Two or three professionals who work well together and would consider the right opportunity collectively.

A proven team with existing relationships, market coverage and a track record that could potentially transfer to another platform.

A senior professional considering a move who believes retaining selected members of the existing team would be important to future success.

Professionals from the same or different organisations whose value could be stronger collectively — for example across trading, origination, brokerage, sales or associated functions.

You may have no intention of moving today but simply want to understand what could be possible if the right opportunity emerged.

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Why Consider Moving Together?

The value you have built as a group may be greater than the sum of the individual CVs.

Strong commodity trading and brokerage teams develop more than individual track records. They build working relationships, shared market knowledge, complementary skills and ways of operating that can be difficult to recreate from scratch.

A Team Move allows that collective value to become part of the conversation.

KEEP WHAT IS ALREADY WORKING

Moving together can preserve trusted working relationships, complementary strengths and the operating rhythm you have developed as a group.

PRESENT A STRONGER PROPOSITION

Rather than approaching the market as several unrelated candidates, the team can be positioned around the commercial capability it could deliver collectively.

ACCESS DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES

Some businesses may not have an advertised vacancy for every member of the group, but may be interested in the capability a proven team could create.

SHAPE THE OPPORTUNITY

A team conversation can explore structure, responsibilities, platform requirements and economics around the group rather than forcing everyone into pre-existing vacancies.

EXPLORE WITHOUT COMMITTING

An initial discussion does not mean anyone has decided to leave. It can simply establish whether there is an opportunity worth exploring further.

The conversation starts with what the team could build; not which jobs happen to be advertised.

Explore the Opportunity Before You Commit to It.

A confidential Team Move conversation starts with understanding what the group wants — not sending CVs to the market.

01. Understand the Team

We begin with a confidential discussion around the group: who may be involved, how you work together, what each person brings and what would need to improve for a move to make sense.

02. Define the Opportunity

We explore the type of platform, market, geography, structure, responsibilities and commercial environment that could provide the right next step for the team.

03. Identify & Approach

Imperium can discreetly identify relevant commodity trading houses, brokers, merchants and other market participants and open carefully controlled conversations on the team’s behalf.

04. Explore the Fit

Where there is mutual interest, we help both sides explore structure, economics, platform requirements, timing and whether the opportunity could work for the team as a whole.

Nothing is shared and no business is approached until the team is comfortable with the strategy.

Your Conversation Stays Controlled

Confidentiality is not an afterthought. It shapes how the process is run from the outset.

Exploring a Team Move can involve colleagues, employers, clients and commercially sensitive information.

Before anything is shared externally, we agree what can be disclosed, which businesses may be approached and when identities can be revealed.

Your name, employer and the identities of colleagues are not disclosed to prospective businesses without agreement.

We can initially discuss the capability, functions and commercial proposition without identifying every member of the group.

You remain involved in deciding which organisations are appropriate to approach — and which should be excluded.

More detailed information around performance, revenues, remuneration or client relationships is only discussed at the appropriate stage and with agreed controls.

A confidential conversation with Imperium is exactly that — a conversation. It is not a commitment to move and it does not put you into the market automatically.

What Will a Prospective Business Want to Understand?

A Team Move is assessed as a commercial proposition, not simply several individual CVs.

As conversations develop, a prospective commodity business, trading house or brokerage will need enough context to understand what the team could deliver on a new platform.

That does not mean sharing everything at the outset. It means building a credible picture of the team when the conversation reaches the appropriate stage.

TEAM STRUCTURE

Who does what, how responsibilities are divided and which individuals are genuinely important to the proposition.

HISTORIC PERFORMANCE

The team’s track record, revenues and commercial contribution where appropriate and available.

CLIENT & REVENUE PORTABILITY

Which relationships and revenue streams may realistically move with the team — and which are more dependent on the existing platform.

REMUNERATION & ECONOMICS

Current and expected compensation, team economics and what would need to make sense commercially for a move to work.

PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS

The systems, infrastructure, licences, support, geography and operating environment required for the team to succeed.

TIMING & RESTRICTIONS

Notice periods, contractual restrictions and practical considerations that may influence the shape or timing of a move.

The objective is not to prove that the team has been successful where it is. It is to demonstrate why that success could work somewhere new.

Commodity Teams We Speak With

Confidential Team Move conversations across trading, brokerage and specialist commodity-market functions.

TRADING TEAMS
Physical and derivatives trading teams across energy, metals, agriculture and associated commodity markets.

BROKERAGE DESKS
Established commodity and financial-market brokerage teams, from smaller specialist groups through to complete desks.

ORIGINATION & SALES
Commercial teams whose client relationships, market coverage and sourcing capability create value collectively.

SHIPPING & CHARTERING
Teams across chartering, shipbroking, freight, marine fuel and related commodity-shipping functions.

LEADERSHIP & COMMERCIAL TEAMS
Senior professionals whose move may involve selected colleagues or the creation of a wider trading or commercial function around them.

The right structure depends on the team, the commodity market and the opportunity being explored.

Move Together. Decide Individually.

FAQs

Practical answers before you decide whether a Team Move conversation is right for you.

Our Team Move work spans physical and derivatives trading, brokerage, origination, sales, shipping and chartering, clearing, execution and other specialist commodity-market functions.

Do we need to be actively looking to move?

No.

Many Team Move conversations begin long before anybody has decided to leave their current employer.

You can speak with us simply to understand whether there might be credible alternatives in the market.

No. A conversation can begin with one or two people exploring what might be possible.

If there is something worth developing, you can then decide together who else should become involved and at what stage.

Not initially.

We start by understanding the team as a collective proposition – how you work together, the capability you provide and what you could potentially deliver on another platform.

Individual backgrounds and CVs can be introduced later where appropriate.

Not without agreement.

We can initially discuss a team’s capability, structure and commercial proposition without disclosing names or current employers.

We agree what can be shared, with whom and at what stage before any external approach is made.

That is often exactly why a Team Move conversation is useful.

A prospective business may not have several open vacancies but may still be interested in acquiring an established capability if the commercial case is compelling.

The opportunity can be built around the team rather than the team being fitted into existing vacancies.

There is no fixed minimum.

A Team Move might involve two or three colleagues, a team leader with selected individuals, an established desk or a larger commercial group.

What matters is whether there is meaningful collective value in exploring the move together.

Yes.

We can help structure the team proposition around areas such as responsibilities, historic performance, revenue opportunity, remuneration, platform requirements and what the group could potentially deliver on a new platform.

The purpose is to help a prospective business understand the commercial opportunity behind the team, not simply receive several individual profiles.

These can affect the timing, structure and feasibility of a Team Move, and different members of the team may have different contractual positions.
Imperium can factor those practical considerations into the wider process, but we do not provide legal advice. Restrictive covenants, non-compete provisions, non-solicitation clauses and other contractual restrictions should be reviewed with appropriate independent legal advisers.

Built Around the Team, Not the Vacancy

Why commodity-market professionals trust Imperium to explore collective opportunities discreetly.

Specialist Commodity Market Knowledge

We work exclusively across international commodity markets, giving us an established understanding of the trading houses, brokers, merchants, teams and individuals operating within them.

Confidential by Design

Nothing is taken to market without agreement. You remain involved in deciding what is shared, which businesses are approached and when identities are disclosed.

Commercially Led

We position the team around the capability it could deliver — not simply as several candidates looking for individual roles.

Market Mapping & Research

Where the right destination is not already obvious, we can identify relevant commodity businesses and platforms rather than limiting the conversation to advertised vacancies.

One Conversation Across the Group

Imperium acts as a consistent intermediary, helping keep the team, potential employer and wider process aligned as discussions develop.

No Obligation to Move

Exploring what might be possible does not commit anyone to leaving. The purpose is to understand whether an opportunity exists that is worth considering.

Open to Exploring What Could Be Next?

Tell us about the team, what you’ve built together and what the right opportunity would need to offer.

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