Softs & Agri Futures Broker

Title: Soft Commodity & Agricultural Derivatives Broker
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Boulder, Denver CO. USA
Salary: Base Salary + Scalable Revenue Share/Commission Split
Retained & Exclusive Vacancy 

Imperium Commodity Search is retained by one of the worlds largest physical grain brokerage houses as they grow their derivatives portfolio across softs & agricultural derivatives brokerage.  With a small and talented London based team on derivatives/futures sales and execution, they are seeking growth on their US business to build out futures, options and swaps block execution services to corporate and institutional cleints in the grain trading and soft commodity space.  With a globally established physical brokerage book, our client has excellent, live market data, giving them a niche in the market to upsell their products through their truly plugged in data.

As well as this market access, our client has a non-siloed approach to brokerage, with brokers able to execute on all markets and drive profitablity through multiple sources.  Specifically of interest for current growth plans is vegetable oil, palm oil, edible oils, biofuels and black sea wheat, but there is appetite across a range of all soft and agri commodity asset classes.

Responsibilities: 

• Manage derivatives brokerage on CBOT and MATIF markets, developing relationships with clients across funds, trading houses, banks and institutional clients in oils, soft oils, edible oils, biofuels, biodiesel and wheat
• Market and execute liquidity swaps, futures and options in grains, agri and soft commodity markets (primarily edible oils, biofuels etc.)
• Demonstrate the ability and market access of the firm through the physical cash presence in the grains and agri markets
• Actively drive business development with new and existing clients
• Prepare and distrubute market data to clients for analytical and business development purposes
• Work with established internal team on growth of new lines, clients and markets
• Keep up to date on market movement and developments across the derivatives soft commodity and agricultural markets

Experience:

• 3-5+ years of experience in a derivatives brokerage covering soft commodity and agricultural commodities.
• Good understanding of niche within softs and agri (veg oil, edible oil, biodiesel, biofuel etc.)
• A book of clients/access (modest expectations of >200,000 in revenues transferable)
• Desire to build a broader book in a small, family orientated and entrepreneurial business
• Business development and sales focused with a team orientated mentality
• Able to relocate to Boulder, Colorado USA

To discuss this position in confidence, please contact Mark Taylor at mark.taylor@imperiumcs.com or apply below.

The markets here are small by headcount – all discussions are in strict confidence.  You can call our offices at +44 (0) 203 927 5090 or +1 312 380 0225