Trade Assistant
Isle of Man
Permanent
Our client seeks a Trade Assistant to join their team.
The Trade Assistant provides essential administrative, operational, and analytical support to the team. This role is designed to ensure smooth execution of day-to-day trading activities, including contract administration, communication with internal departments, maintenance of market data, and coordination of logistical information. The Trade Assistant plays a key role in supporting the team by ensuring accurate record-keeping, timely information flow, and high-quality operational support. This position offers an excellent entry point into agricultural commodity trading, with opportunities to develop a deeper understanding of commercial operations, markets, and the full trade lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take orders from customers for derivative hedging.
- Updating of position reports.
- Assist Traders in managing physical trade operations and contract administration.
- Prepare, update, and maintain trade documentation, including purchase and sales contracts.
- Support the team in monitoring and updating position reports, pricing sheets, and trading systems.
- Coordinate communication between Traders and internal support functions (Operations, Finance, Logistics, etc.).
- Assist with customer onboarding, account updates, and documentation requirements.
- Work closely with Operations and Logistics teams to ensure accurate execution details are captured and communicated.
- Track shipment schedules and key contract milestones.
- Ensure timely entry of contract data, amendments, and shipment information into internal systems.
- Support resolution of operational queries and discrepancies.
- Monitoring and reconciliation of trade positions
- Assist with basic market data collection, trend monitoring, and report preparation.
- Support Traders with supply/demand data updates and market intelligence gathering.
- Maintain spreadsheets and simple analytical tools used for commercial decision-making.
- Liaise professionally with suppliers, customers, freight teams, and internal departments.
- Support Traders during internal and external meetings by preparing relevant documentation and follow-up notes.
- Help maintain effective information feedback loops to ensure all relevant parties are aligned.
Key Skills & Experience:
- Preference for candidates with a Commercial, Business, Finance, or related qualification.
- Experience in an administrative, operations, or support role within a commercial or supply chain environment is beneficial.
- Prior exposure to trading, commodities, logistics, or agriculture is an advantage, but not essential.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to prioritise tasks and manage multiple deadlines.
- Strong organisational and time-management skills.
- Proactive, reliable, and capable of working both independently and within a team.
