Koch Industries

Metals Trader

Koch Industries$160K — $200K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in metals physical commodity trading, focusing on non-ferrous & ferrous scrap metal grades.
  • Must reside in the U.S. and be able to work without visa sponsorship.
  • Willingness to travel domestically approximately 20% of the time.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and secure profitable business opportunities for long-term growth.
  • Build and maintain relationships with suppliers and clients in the metals industry.
  • Analyze competitive landscape to stay ahead of market trends.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful trade execution.
  • Utilize economic principles and critical thinking in trading activities.
  • Provide outstanding customer service to ensure client satisfaction.
  • Manage all aspects of sourcing for trading operations.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
  • Life insurance and disability coverage.
  • Retirement plan options.
  • Paid vacation and time off, including parental leave and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Your Job

GP Recycling is seeking an experienced Metals Sourcing Trader to identify and secure profitable business opportunities for long-term growth. In this role, you will build and maintain relationships with suppliers and clients to expand our trading portfolio. You will analyze market trends, execute trades, and ensure seamless logistical coordination, all while upholding the highest standards of integrity. If you have a strategic mindset and principled entrepreneurial attitude, we encourage you to apply!

Location: This is a home-based role with frequent travel. This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship.

What You Will Do
  • Identify and secure profitable new business opportunities that can be scaled for long-term growth.
  • Build and maintain long-term relationships with suppliers to foster and expand growth opportunities within the metals industry.
  • Continuously adapt and enhance understanding of the competitive landscape to stay ahead in the market.
  • Work with and through various cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives and ensure successful trade execution.
  • Apply economic principles and critical thinking skills to achieve sustainable long-term success in trading activities.
  • Provide excellent customer service to ensure client satisfaction and foster repeat business.
  • Conduct all business activities lawfully and with the highest level of integrity.
  • Develop and maintain strong business relationships, a key element in the role.
  • Target specific grades such as steel, aluminum, stainless steel, and copper-bearing metals for sourcing and trading activities.
  • Leverage competitive advantages such as export operations, financial strength, and strategic relationships to differentiate from other brokers and succeed in the market.
  • Proactively explore new business opportunities to expand the trading portfolio.
  • Build and maintain a book of business through activities like cold calling and prospecting to nurture and grow client relationships.
  • Work closely with team members and other departments to execute trades, ensuring all logistical elements like material readiness and ocean space availability are managed effectively.
  • Utilize internal capabilities such as Export Operations, Customer Account Managers (CAMs), and order management processes to streamline trading activities.
  • Manage all sourcing aspects of the trade


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • Experience in a metals physical commodity trading role, specifically with respects to non-ferrous & ferrous scrap metal grades.
  • Must be based in the U.S. and able to work without sponsorship
  • Ability to travel domestically (approx. 20%)


What Will Put You Ahead
  • Experience procuring and trading ferrous and/or non-ferrous scrap metal for 3+ years
  • Experience trading metal grades to domestic consumers
  • Experience working with export capabilities
  • Current book of business in metals


For this role, we anticipate paying $160,000-$200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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