Agricultural Broker - Volcap

Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the commodities, energy and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive coverage across five core services: Market Making, Execution & Clearing, Hedging & Investment Solutions, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 38 million trades and clearing over 193 million contracts in 2021. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders. Marex maintains a strong balance sheet with prudent capital and liquidity positions and has an investment grade credit rating.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 29 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,600 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

For more information visit www.marex.com

Volcap

Volcap is a global liquidity partner for professional investors. Our independent teams cover the commodities markets and bespoke structured products. Volcap is a division of Marex. For more information Visit https://volcap.marex.com/

Role Summary

We are recruiting for a driven, entrepreneurial, and ambitious Agricultural Broker to join Volcap’s fast growing commodity brokerage based in London to;

• Provide best-in-class brokerage services on agricultural commodity derivatives for an international client base. Products to be covered include CBOT grains and oilseeds, sugar, coffee, cocoa, cotton and livestock.
• Create value and capture revenues from existing client base as well as develop your own new client pipeline
• Leverage Volcap’s unique positioning as a business division of Marex and work closely with other brokers across the firm in driving synergies and potential new business opportunities
• Liaise with Internal Stakeholders across the business to ensure compliance with the company’s policies and procedures with regards to day-to-day business activity

Overall Responsibilities

• Broker agricultural commodity derivatives for an international client base
• Support senior team members with coverage of existing clients, onboarding of new clients, and business development workflows
• Build and manage your own direct client base, contributing to the growth of the business
• Ensure that actions and behaviours are always in line with the company’s policies & procedures in a regulated role.

Skills and Experience

• Good understanding of global commodities and Agricultural markets
• Good knowledge of financial derivatives
• Strong communication, interpersonal and sales skills with a proven track record of forming strong long-lasting relationships
• Dependable, self-motivated, and resilient individual, with a proven ability to work as a proactive team player
• Strong attention to detail, particularly in a high-pressure environment
• FCA Certification (preferred – but can be achieved in the role)

Competencies

• Excellent verbal written and communication skills
• A collaborative team player, that is approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• Good attention to detail is essential
• Demonstrates curiosity
• Excellent commercial insight and understanding combined with exceptional negotiating skills
• Results focused, able to be decisive and adaptable to the changing needs to the business
• Ability to take a high level of responsibility
• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment
• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Marex is fully committed to the elimination of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company.

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