Battery or Scrap Metals Trader

Title: Battery Materials/Metals or Scrap Metals Trader

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Global (WFH & Remote)

Salary: Negotiable + PnL Split Commission plan

Retained & Exclusive Vacancy

Imperium Commodity Search is exclusively retained by Canusa Hershman. Canusa Hershman is one of the world’s leading independent commodity trading and supply chain management companies. CH provides producers and consumers of raw materials around the globe with superior market knowledge and legendary customer service in combination with creative and effective financing and supply chain solutions.

Canusa Hershman is proud to trace its roots back 135 years to collecting recyclables on the streets of New Haven, CT. From its beginning in providing solutions for the recycling industry, “CH” has evolved with the worlds markets to meet the needs of its suppliers and customers. Today, CH provides supply chain solutions for Recyclable Commodities, Plastic Resins, Containerboard & Packaging Papers, and Pulp & Alternative Fibers.

Through sustained growth across a number of specialist recycling markets, the firm is looking to grow into the battery materials/specialist metals trading markets.

With an aggressively entrepreneurial spirit, our client is seeking to rock the boat of the traditional ‘discretionary’ model of the antiquated trading house by offering aggressive financing and a true PnL split to her traders. With a focus on the costly, higher margin battery metals segment, the opportunity for an experienced battery materials or metal trader to earn substantially more from their profitable trading network is a big one. With a flat structure and an intense culture of support and shared success, you will be surrounded by likeminded individuals and a longstanding staff.

Benefits:

• Aggressive bonus/commission scheme split
• Flat and entrepreneurial structure
• Longstanding staff
• Very established and long running business with an established and respected name in the international recycling markets

Responsibilities:

• Purchase and sales (back to back trade) or battery metals and battery materials (Nickel Sulphate, Cobalt Sulphate and Lithium Carbonate)
• Maintain and improve relationships with suppliers and mines globally extracting battery metals and materials
• Foster and grow a portfolio of end users (battery manufacturers/EV companies) to increase flows across the battery materials trading desk
• Continue to build a metals trading desk for the firm, hiring and training a growing team of metals/battery materials traders as the desk grows
• Keep up to date with relevant EV (electric vehicle) and battery materials industry news/events and market movements to ensure timely and profitable trading flows

Experience:

• 3-5+ years’ experience trading battery materials/metals on a back to back basis
• Excellent network of mines/suppliers of raw materials/battery metals
• Network of buyers/end users in the battery manufacturing and EV space
• Deep understanding of the market forces around battery metals and materials (cobalt, lithium, nickel)
• Ability to work and thrive in a high paced and high pressure environment
• Profitable and consistent trading track record in the battery materials markets
• Set up to work remotely and travel as required