Send To Printer...
Job Title: Ocean Transportation Trainee 2024
Want to build a stronger, more sustainable future and cultivate your career? Join Cargill's global team of 155,000 employees who use new technologies, dynamic insights and over 154 years of experience to connect farmers with markets, customers with ingredients, and people and animals with the food they need to thrive.
Job Purpose and Impact
Cargill Ocean Transportation is a leading customer-focused freight-trading business that serves customers across the globe. Founded in 1956 in Geneva, our business benefits from the rich heritage and expert capabilities of the Cargill corporation.
With agility and resilience our company has been able to face the period of significant change that has impacted the maritime sector in the last decade. Despite the high uncertainty created by volatile markets, reduced financing, digitalization, increased regulations, stricter sustainability targets, the pandemic and political conflicts, we have proved to be ideally positioned to meet the challenges of this new world.
We are developing critical capabilities in areas such as risk management, trading, digitalization, analytics and sustainability, and we are collaborating with our industry peers to help transform the maritime industry at large. The Ocean Transportation Academy aims to attract young professionals and fresh graduates with different educational background ranging from Data Science to Sustainability, with the purpose of building a talent pipeline able to support our future strategy.
We offer a unique program to fresh graduates able to operate in a fast-paced, competitive environment. In the 18 months assignment program, we will provide you with a rotational program in our trading, risk management, vessel operations, analytics, strategy & business development teams to equip you with foundational merchandising and trading competency in shipping. Besides working proactively with other team members to complete the work required, you will take ownership of a project and work regularly with your project sponsor to review milestones and deliverables. You will tackle real challenges, cultivate your curiosity, have client exposure, enjoy both personal and team accomplishments and have your initiative acknowledged along the way. You will also dedicate time outside the day-to-day work to develop your soft-skills.
We are looking for young talents ready to work with:
- integrity and honesty, demonstrating emotional intelligence, self-awareness, self-management
- precision, accuracy and reliability to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals
Key Accountabilities
- Participate in an assignment rotation program depending on business needs in different departments including trading, risk management, vessel operations and analytics.
- Develop and nurture strategic customer relationships, contribute to enhance digitalization and optimize trade capture process.
- Participate in trade life cycle, including contract negotiation, trade entry and physical execution, as well as profit and loss analysis.
- Analyze supply and demand data and market/economic conditions to explore ways to innovate and improve data analysis.
- Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree is a plus. Ideally in the following academic disciplines: Date science & Technology, Engineering & Sustainability, Marketing, Trading
- Confirmed analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills; excellent influencing skills.
- Strong learning agility and adaptability to a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to handle risks and ambiguity.
- Strong team player and can thrive in a diverse and multicultural environment.
- Business fluency in English is a must. Any other language a strong plus.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Digital savvy: strong analytical, quantitative and numeric skills. Proficient in excel, good knowledge of data science tools, visual analytics technologies and programming language.
- Eye for Business and Commercial Excellence: comfort in taking and managing risks and challenging the status quo. Knowledge in trading techniques. Ability to gather customer insights and translate problems into valuable and strategic opportunities. Focus on overall business drivers.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm: intellectual curiosity and learning agility, creativity and innovation.
- Customer Focus: problem-solving skills, marketing skills, strong persuasion and negotiation skills.
- Strategy Agility: big picture thinking, anticipate emerging trends and bring the outside-in.
OUR OFFER
In return for your expertise and commitment, we will provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
TO APPLY
If your profile matches our criteria, we will ask you to submit a short video where you will be asked to talk a little about yourself and your past experiences. If your video submission is successful, the next step will be to get to know you in person, as we really value in-person interaction. You will be invited to complete a pre-work prior to your visit at our Singapore office and attend an assessment day. Together with other candidates you will take part in multiple individual and group activities.
