Fertilizer Trader, African Markets

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Title: Fertilizer Trader, African Markets
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Zurich / Zug, Switzerland
Salary: Negotiable

Imperium Commodity Search is looking for experienced fertilizer traders with a strong knowledge of the South / East African markets to join a growing international trading house in Switzerland.

Responsibilities:

  • Increase sales channels in East / South Africa across commodity fertilizer products (nitrates, phosphates, potash etc.)
  • Manage relationships with farms and agricultural producers to build out sales lines of fertilizer/fertiliser products across potash, nitrates and phosphates
  • Stay up to date with market movements/insights to capitalise on trading opportunities in a timely fashion
  • Work closely with operations/logistics partners to facilitate smooth back to back trading into the African continent
  • Develop relationships and meet with clients to understand requirements and match technical/complex fertilizer products to specific agro needs

Experience:

  • 3+ years experience in African market fertilizer business
  • A strong network of sales side clients in Africa for the sale of traditional/commodity fertilizer products (nitrates, phosphates, potash etc)
  • Good understanding of the technical details of fertilizer products and their applications
  • Previous track record of building and maintaining relationships in the East and South African regions

If you meet the above criteria and want to learn more about the role, please send your CV/Cover Letter to Mark Taylor at mark@imperiumcs.com or use the apply button

We work with our licensed Swiss partner Accurity GmbH on all Swiss placements and all candidate applications/data is handled in accordance with Swiss law