Role Overview

We have an exciting opportunity for someone to join us as a Specialty Salesperson to work in a truly global environment to manage and actively develop one of our key trading books.

Business Overview

Volcafe Ltd is one of the world’s leading international green coffee trading companies, operating in over 20 countries globally. Our expertise spans green coffee procurement and preparation, sustainability, blending, quality control, risk management and export as well as importing and distribution. We supply the world’s major coffee roasters and retail distributors with their green coffee requirements, with significant strategic growth ambitions for the future. We are part of ED&F Man Commodities, a world leading trader of agricultural products including coffee, sugar, molasses and animal feed.

Volcafe works across the whole green coffee supply chain to make coffee business better, together with our partners and employees. We have built and operate sustainable coffee supply chains across all our origins, addressing key economic, social and environmental issues in coffee farming communities. Our Volcafe Way farmer support programme engages with thousands of coffee farmers and provides a holistic response to the challenges they face.

This role will be working for Golluecke & Rothfos GmbH, Volcafe’s company in Bremen, Germany.

Key Accountabilities

• Getting familiar with market terminology and actively following the terminal markets (coffee exchange), developing an under-standing of price movements and prices in general.
• Controlling trading positions.
• Researching supply and demand figures.
• Getting into the specifics of individual coffee origins and translating those dynamics into commercial decisions.
• Managing customer accounts and selling coffee to specialty customers, upon progress.
• Facilitating price fixing.
• Supporting our specialty coffee trading desk with administrative tasks.
• Daily green coffee quality tasting and cupping to learn and evaluate coffee qualities, and ultimately helping to develop new products.
• Managing purchasing, sales and third parties’ contracts in a timely and accurate manner.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in international trade, economics, or related field.
• Fully proficient in written and spoken English essential and good German level would be beneficial. Other languages that enhance the ability to trade coffee are very desirable.
• A minimum of 2 years of previous experience in trade, sales is preferred.
• Strong attention to detail and organization skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Good relationship builder with both customers as well as suppliers.
• Committed team player who is willing to be flexible and assist with a whole range of tasks to support colleagues and the delivery of a common strategic goal.
• Must have the ability to adapt to the dynamic trading environment and take a proactive approach to managing tasks and completing priorities.

As an ever-friendly reminder: Researchers have found that men apply to roles when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria. Women and other underrepresented groups tend to apply only when they check every box. If you are interested, but don’t feel like you meet every single point on the job description, please still apply!

Our Offer

We provide a fast-paced, stimulating and truly global environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the global leaders in soft commodity trading.

Our Values

Respect, Integrity, Meritocracy, Client Focus, Entrepreneurship

Our values define who we are. They are the fundamental beliefs that determine our actions and guide our behaviour. They influence the way we communicate and collaborate, and define the way we engage with our clients, partners, and communities. Our values are underpinned by a set of essential behaviours, which form part of our performance management approach. Delivering on our objectives is very much about ‘what’ we do, but these essential behaviours also provide a guide and measure for ‘how’ we do things. Our performance essentials are Take Initiative, Self‐Management, Deliver Results and Collaboration.

Our Commitment

We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive and diverse work environment where all employees are treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment and are focussed on actively building and developing diverse teams. All qualified applicants will receive equal treatment without regard to race, colour, sex, gender, age, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, marital or civil partner status, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment (identity, gender expression), genetic information or any characteristic protected by local law.

We are willing to make any reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

   To apply you must have the right to work for the provided location.