Berge Bulk Hiring! Full Time Head of Trading - Analytics in - Ricebowl

About Berge Bulk

Situated within Singapore's vibrant maritime hub, Berge Bulk leads innovation in the shipping industry. Embracing their vision of leading the world towards a zero-carbon future through safe, efficient, and sustainable shipping practices, Berge Bulk is making significant strides in technological advancements. With a goal to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025, Berge Bulk is actively shaping the future of shipping. This strategic pursuit reflects their commitment to maritime technology leadership.

Berge Bulk’s three key milestones

Berge Bulk has set an ambitious decarbonization timeline which consists of three key milestones…

• Offsetting 100% of Scope-1 carbon emissions from 2025.
• Build and operate a zero-emissions vessel by 2030.
• Achieve zero-emissions fleetwide by 2050.

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Purpose of the Job

The principal function of the Commercial Operations group is to build a competitive, flexible freight portfolio. So, you’ll need to have your finger on the pulse and really understand the market globally for your specific area.

This role has ownership of and responsibility for the Trading & Analytics Desk where you will be responsible for examining and determining market dynamics to identify changing trends in the marketplace; while trading and executing FFA requirements for the Commercial Operations team.

Job Responsibilities:

Research Duties

• Lead development of Quantitative research to enhance fundamental research, develop trading strategies, and build robust quantitative models.
• Work closely with physical desks to provide them with weekly reports on changes in short term supply of tonnage and cargo across vessel sizes.
• Technical analysis on the FFA curves and provision of trading suggestions with analysis to support short and medium term FFA trading decisions.
• Develop alternative solutions and formulate commercial and contractual proposals.

Risk Duties

• Overall responsibility for Commercial Risk Management
• Risk reporting tailored to the relevant audience.
• Conducting risk policy and compliance audits.
• Issue the daily risk management report highlighting actions to limit positional risks where Berge Bulk may have exposure
• Daily interaction with Chartering and Operations to ensure risk system is accurate and updated in all areas.
• Converse daily with accounting to ensure accounting reconciles with risk system where applicable.

Trading Duties

• Management of hedging physical freight exposures.
• Development and execution of FFA and Bunker Swaps trading strategy within approved limits.
• Running a profitable trading book.
• Managing relationships with trading counterparties and exchanges.
• Develop new trading counterparties.

Management Duties

• Leadership of a team of three consisting of a Data Analyst, Bunker Executive and Research Executive.
• Living our Berge Bulk values both internally and externally.
• Always Representing Berge Bulk in a professional manner.