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Title: Senior Petrochemical Trader
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Singapore
Salary: 200,000 to 250,000 SGD per annum
Imperium Commodity Search is working with a multinational petrochemical and polymers trading house seeking a petrochemical trader for their growing operation in Singapore. Our client is committed to innovation and a sustainable polymer and petrochemical market with a quickly growing front office presence across the globe.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Manage a back to back trading book of petrochemical and chemical products including polymers, glycols, aromatics, olefins, methanol, styrene monomer etc.
- Ensure new trading opportunities and sales side customers are capitalised upon and continue the growth of the chemicals trading book
- Work closely with the middle and back office teams to ensure smooth operational procedures across logistics, finance and contracts
- Stay up to date with market insight, analysis and movements to be in a strong trading position and identify areas to target for business and trading growth
- Work with existing trading teams to identify needs across the polymer and secondary products business whilst ensuring PnL and volume targets are met with regards petrochemical products book
- Point of contact for other teams and local management on petrochemical and chemical product related queries
- Work with middle and back office teams on analysis and reporting across the chemicals and petrochemicals markets
Experience:
- 7-10+ years’ experience in a petrochemicals or chemicals trading position
- Excellent PnL record with a proven ability to build and operate a profitable chemicals and petchems trading book
- Superb network of suppliers, customers and shipping providers to the petrochemical industry
- Good analytical skills with the ability to read and interpret market data and reports as well as an eye for detail in generating internal market advisory and analytics information
- Understanding of the shipping and operational aspects of international petrochemical trading
- Excellent knowledge of individual petrochemical and chemical products across Methanol, Glycols, Styrenes, Aromatics, Olefins and IPA
- Good understanding of the polymers and plastics industry and exposure to polymer or plastics trading
- Excellent commercial mindset and ability to grow and maintain a petrochemical trading book
- Good knowledge of the Singaporean and APAC markets preferred
- Fluent in English (additional languages beneficial but not essential)
To apply please send your CV and cover letter to Josh Clark at josh.clark@imperiumcs.com call on +44 203 927 5092 or click the apply button below
