Junior Trader

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! At CGB, you can contribute to meaningful work, grow professionally and personally, and belong in a place where everyone has a voice.

Founded in 1969, CGB Enterprises, Inc. is known as an innovative and progressive leader in the grain and transportation industries. Today, CGB operates an enterprise with over 100 locations and nearly 2,000 U.S. employees overseeing a diverse family of businesses that provide an array of services for producers and logistics services for an international base of customers. The combination of our assets provides a growing organization that is celebrating over 50 years of strength and stability!

This job is primarily responsible for the execution of positions created by others. Responsibilities include processing a variety of complexities for various commodities simultaneously.

• Develop tactics to best execute trading positions.
• Maintain and develop sales opportunities while adhering to credit, quality, and cash risk limits; monitor national and international markets as well as negotiate price, specification, and delivery details.
• Negotiate price/delivery, write up logistical documents, contracts, applications, hedging transactions, and final settlements; adhering to trading and risk position limits.
• Gather and report on actionable information on crop and growing conditions, commodity movement, market, freight and logistical situations and trends throughout the world.
• Cultivate long‑term relationships with customers, third party vendors, and end users to improve and expand origination and sales.
• Communicate market trends and information to regional staff; ensuring timely and quality market information.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required - Bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience.

Required - 2 Years Related Trading Experience.

• Working knowledge of the entire commodity life cycle; from producer to consumer.
• Working knowledge of the basics of commodity transportation entering and exiting an elevator.
• Basic computer skills, including working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite.
• Strong business acumen.
• Effective interpersonal, oral and written communication skills with the ability to interact with all levels of people within and outside the organization.
• Excellent consultative skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and comply with all applicable regulations.

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Hearing. Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

The employee is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes.

The work environment described here are meant to be representative of those an employee would normally encounter while performing the essential functions of this job. The physical environment requires the employee to work inside where there are limited extremes to heat and/or cold; moderate noise; a normal office environment. Travel, up to 10%.

The expected base pay range for this role is: $72,178.00 - $93,536.00. Actual pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including work location, job‑related knowledge, skills and relevant experience for the job. Pay amount does not guarantee employment…