As Feed Ingredients Trader at Frey, you will profitably originate, trade, and execute domestic feed ingredient flows, from plant-direct business through to supplying Frey's export program into international markets. Reporting to the Director of Feed Ingredients, you will work closely with the export teams and play an active role in building the Feed vertical in a fast-growing , entrepreneurial organization.
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Build and deepen relationships with strategic partners such as ethanol plants, crus facilities, processors, brokers, and resellers. Responsible for market and customer development within book of business.
- Originate and sell basis and flat-price feed ingredients across domestic and export markets.
- Negotiate FOB and delivered truck and rail business, trade regional spreads and carry/inverse markets, and arbitrage across all modes of transportation.
- Monitor physical and futures markets to manage positions, hedge exposure, and manage customer and commodity risk within credit limits.
- Maintain P&L accuracy and contract quality, review daily report to maintain clean books, and provide market intelligence to the export team.
- Coordinate logistics and carrier relationships for truck and rail flows.
Expected skills & Experience- 5-7 years of experience in commodity merchandising, trading, origination or domestic logistics within grain, oilseeds, by-products, or feed ingredients.
- Working knowledge of domestic basis markets, FOB vs. delivered structures, and truck and rail freight logistics.
- Comfortable originating by phone daily and building plant, broker, and buyer relationships.
- Strong numeracy and trade acumen: able to price a trade, calculate margin, identify risk, and solve problems.
- Execution discipline across all components of the trade flow and supply chain.
- Experience trading by-products (distillers, soybean meal, corn gluten, bakery meal), knowledge of NGFA, GAFTA, and NOPA rules, existing supplier relationships, and familiarity with US-to-ASIA export flows are an advantage.
- Flexibility to support our export team and customers across time zones as needed.
This role offers the opportunity to take ownership in a growing Feed vertical, with direct access to Frey's global export platform and a team that shares a founder's mentality.
