Join Louis Dreyfus Company as a Soybean Oil Trader and play a critical role in shaping the commercial success of one of North America's most important edible oil businesses.In this highly visible trading and commercial role, you'll serve as the primary point of contact for key refined soybean oil customers, developing strategic partnerships while driving profitable growth across the business. You'll combine market intelligence, customer engagement, risk management, and trading expertise to develop sales strategies, execute transactions, and identify opportunities that create value for both customers and LDC.Working closely with operations, logistics, credit, quality, and global trading teams, you'll help ensure the seamless movement of product from production to customer delivery while providing insights that influence pricing, hedging, and commercial decisions. This role offers a unique opportunity to make a direct impact on the business while gaining exposure to the broader oilseeds, edible oils, and ingredients markets.This position is located in our Wilton, CT location, we operate on a hybrid schedule (4 days in office/1 remote). Primary Responsibilities/Essential FunctionsLead US refined soybean oil salesperson / marketer overseeing key customer relationships   Onboards new customers, defines quality and documentary needs as well as credit requirementsDevelops & implements refined soybean oil sales strategy to maximize commercial marginMaps key customer accounts, defines target customer sales volumes and tracks open demand against free to sellMaintains detailed knowledge of customer operating dynamics, logistics requirements & supplier preferencesIdentifies opportunities to trade around cash hedges and utilizes oilseeds calendar spreads to manage asset riskProvides market intelligence to guide company hedge positioning, pricing and risk management decisionsActively manages discussion around asset oil inventories factoring in production & inbound/outbound logisticsCoordinates/communicates customer shipment requirements with logistics and operations teamGuides balance of oilseeds & FFS teams in merchandising / sales strategy for refined soybean oil  Identifies cross-selling opportunities within LDC’s broader edible oils & ingredients portfolioEnsures product line members are kept abreast of market driving developmentsGuides US oil consumptive analysis ensuring adequate interpretation and distribution to global teamChallenges global oilseeds complex balance sheets and understands influence on US S&Ds Ensures timely entry of trades into position management system and validates daily positions & P&LsDevelops and maintains regular commercial relationships with 3rd parties to expand information flowDistributes regular market updates via chats recapping US trade highlights and market intelAssists in strategic business analysis for internal and external implementationTuned into all CBOT, NOPA, trade rule developmentsParticipates in strategic planning discussions
