Trader

Job Description

Job Description

Salary:

About Us

It is an exciting time to build your career at Tricon! Certified as a Great Place to Work, Tricon has been built on a foundation of perseverance, collaboration, and entrepreneurial thinking, powered by some of the industrys top talent. Our culture values independence and accountability, where we empower our employees to make an impact.

With 30 years in business, Tricon has become a global leader in the trading and distribution of petrochemicals, polymers, and raw materials. Today, we are one of the largest privately held companies in Houston, the worlds second-largest chemical distributor according to ICIS, and ranked #35 on Forbes list of Top Private Companies in America. We conduct business in over 120 countries, supported by a truly multinational workforce of 1,000 employees across 40 countries.

Our team delivers value to customers and partners through deep market expertise and integrated capabilities including logistics, risk management, financing, and market intelligence. Guided by our purpose to efficiently and sustainably connect the world with essential goods, Tricon plays a critical role in enabling global commerce while helping suppliers and customers focus on what they do best.

At Tricon, youll join a global organization where scale meets agility, and where your ideas, ownership, and ambition can help shape the future of international trade.

Key Responsibilities:

Purchase and sale transaction profitability.

-Developing and expanding relationships with the key decision makers within all critical supplier organizations for sourcing of products, and with the key purchasing decision makers within critical customer organizations for sale of products.

-Developing creative approaches to the purchase and sale of products, generating strategies for production of profits in both long and short market scenarios.

-Analyzing and benchmarking supply/demand conditions, historical trends and projections of consumption, availability, manufacturing capacity utilization and competitive pricing strategies for the product group.

-Developing the team's business strategy, profit targets, action plan and performance measurement criteria.

-Initiating and concluding profitable trading transaction with minimum risk and maximum return.

Qualifications:

-Pro-active, self-motivated individual with a high energy level and sense of urgency.

-A "self-starter", who is able to work with minimum supervision, recognizing potential opportunities and taking timely, appropriate action.

-"Bottom-line" orientation, utilizing creative problem solving skills to bring transactions to profitable conclusion.

-Rich experience in the field of chemical commodity trading

-Effective time manager who keeps commitments and consistently meets deadlines.

-Good communicator, throughout all levels of the company, ship owners/brokers, suppliers and customers.

-Good research and analysis skill.

- Familiar with chemical products.

-High level of Integrity

Compensation and benefit are commensurate with experience.