Coffee Trader

Overview

Job description

**About Company**

**Key Responsibilities**

• **Market analysis:** Monitor global and domestic market trends, supply and demand, and price fluctuations.
• **Sourcing and purchasing:** Source high-quality coffee beans by building and maintaining relationships with producers and exporters.
• **Negotiation**: Negotiate prices and contract terms with suppliers and buyers.
• **Sales and client relations:** Engage with roasters and other wholesale buyers to sell coffee beans and expand business.
• **Quality control:** Evaluate the quality of coffee beans using sensory skills (cupping) to ensure they meet standards.
• **Logistics management:** Coordinate the shipping and delivery of coffee beans, manage inventory, and ensure timely arrival.
• **Risk management:** Mitigate financial risks associated with price volatility.
• Required skills and qualifications
• **Market knowledge:** Deep understanding of the coffee market, including current prices, trends, and different coffee varieties and origins.
• **Negotiation skills**: Ability to negotiate prices and contracts effectively.
• **Sensory evaluation:** Strong sensory abilities for grading coffee based on taste and other characteristics.
• **Relationship building:** Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to build and maintain relationships with suppliers and clients.
• **Attention to detail:** Meticulous in managing contracts and ensuring quality standards are met.
• **Analytical skills:** Ability to analyze data and market reports.
• **Logistics proficiency:** Knowledge of international and domestic shipping and logistics.
• **Adaptability**: Ability to adapt to a fast-paced, ever-changing market.

**Skills and Qualifications**

• **Minimum 5 years of experience** in coffee bean trading or sales.
• Bachelor's degree in agriculture, agribusiness, economics, finance, or a related field.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting market data and identifying trends.
• Proficiency in using trading platforms and financial software for effective trade management.
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills for fostering relationships with suppliers and buyers.
• Ability to thrive under pressure and in fast-paced environments.
• Knowledge of factors influencing coffee market dynamics, such as climate and global demand.
• Fluent English is mandatory, and any other languages such as Japanese, Thai or Laotian would be preferable.
• Any existing contacts and connections with potential coffee bean buyers, particularly worldwide, would highly desirable

**Additional Information**

• **Work Environment**: This role involves regular communication with suppliers, buyers, and logistics partners, and may include travel to production sites or industry events.
• **Career Development**: Successful team members have opportunities to advance into senior trading roles or specialize further within agricultural commodities trading.
• A coffee bean trader buys and sells green coffee beans, analyzes market trends, negotiates prices, and manages logistics.
• This role involves building relationships with suppliers and roasters, ensuring quality control through sensory evaluation, and managing the financial risks of price fluctuations.
• Traders may travel to coffee-producing countries to work directly with farmers and must be skilled in both market analysis and negotiation.
• Contact detail
• +8562096712048
• **How to Apply**:
• If you have the required experience and are excited about coffee trading, we invite you to apply.
• Please submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your relevant experience and why you are interested in this position.
• Please submit CV / Application in English only.

Job Type: Full-time