Cotton Trader - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

Candidate Profile - 

- Candidates from premier B Schools

- Good Communication skills.

- Strong analytical, problem solving, and decision-making skills

- Good English communication skills is preferable

- Ability to take quick commercial decisions

- Target driven, focused on execution and problem solver

- Teamwork Skills - ability to work effectively with an indirect team

- Position provides opportunity to be part of growing business in a company that is respected globally

Job Profile - 

- Collating relevant information and data

- Liaising closely with sales staff and inter-dealer brokers

- Determining market sentiment via research, valuation and data analysis

- Monitoring market performance

- Making prices in specific products

- Providing key parties with daily trading information

- informing sales staff about market movements/prices

- executing trades

- gaining information from sales staff about client issues.

- Manage a team of agents to establish a supplier base for cotton and establish relations with customers in the region.

- Execute the regional game-plan

- Provide inputs by way of analysis and market views to the trading team that can lead to formulation of the India trading game-plan

- Monitor daily status and execution of open contracts and ensure performance of contracts amidst price volatility

- Manage the local classing team and execute the plan to originate quality as per the trading game-plan

- Coordinate with regional operations team on pick up (purchase) and delivery of cargo (sales) respectively.

- Coordinate with accounting team and intervene where required, for timely payment to suppliers and reconciling of customer accounts.

- Ensure that daily trades are accurately reported for the overall position report

- Provide tradeable information to Trading team in form of

weather reports

sowing status, acreage trends, yield trends, crop harvesting and arrival patterns

crop quality

regional demand/consumption, stocks etc.

competition activity - Consumers/ Traders/ Suppliers

regional logistics inputs in collaboration with regional ops/logistics team - trucks, railways, warehousing etc.

- Competent in basic MS Office tools

- Having knowledge of and contacts in ginning and spinning industry

- Proven ability to develop and manage strong customer/supplier relationships

- Willing to travel to stay close with customers and suppliers