Job details
For one of our clients, an international commodity trading company, we are seeking an experienced Freight Trader to be based in Rotterdam.
Your mission:
- Identify and secure freight opportunities to complement the company’s cargo flows and tonnage strategy.
- Leverage internal volumes to identify arbitrage opportunities, optimize vessel employment, and improve profitability.
- Develop and maintain relationships with third-party clients, brokers, shipowners, operators, and charterers, with a focus on European, Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black Sea, LATAM, and Middle Eastern markets.
- Negotiate freight rates, charter party terms, voyage economics, and commercial conditions with internal and external stakeholders.
- Use FFAs, market intelligence, broker indications, and external price proposals to assess fair market rates and support trading decisions.
- Work closely with operations to ensure smooth voyage execution, documentation, claims follow-up, and logistics coordination.
- Monitor freight market trends, vessel availability, cargo demand, port conditions, and freight volatility.
- Collaborate with internal trading teams to anticipate demand, support physical flows, and identify new freight-led business opportunities.
Your profil:
- Minimum 5–10 years of experience as a Freight Trader, Chartering Manager, Freight Operator, or Freight Commercial Manager.
- Strong knowledge of international freight markets, ideally with exposure to European and Atlantic Basin flows.
- Good understanding of vessel types, voyage calculations, charter parties, freight risk, FFAs, and physical cargo execution.
- Established network of brokers, shipowners, operators, charterers, or industrial clients.
- Analytical, commercially driven, communicative, and results-oriented.
- Comfortable using trading platforms, freight market tools, pricing systems, and Excel-based voyage calculations.
- Experience in freight operations, chartering, or commodity trading is a strong asset.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Shipping, Maritime Studies, International Trade, Logistics, Finance, or a related field.
- Fluent in English; Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, or another relevant language would be an advantage.
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