Analyste Marché du Grain (F/H)

Job purpose

Provide expert analysis of global cereal markets, with a particular focus on malting barley.

Produce regular market updates combining global news, agronomic developments and international trade insights to support the internal trading team and customer-facing sales teams. Analyse agricultural production dynamics and global maritime commodity flows to inform commercial decisions.

Contribute to the procurement team by identifying and proposing profitable trading opportunities worldwide.

Perform mark-to-market valuations of trading positions, including futures and premium trades.

Main activities

- Develop and maintain a global database of cereal production, consumption and trade statistics, consolidating national and international data from internal, external, institutional and private sources.

- Develop and maintain a malting barley price database covering the world’s main production regions.

- Develop and maintain historical barley price data and databases supporting supply-and-demand correlation studies.

- Conduct in-depth analysis of international agricultural production, covering:

• Crop development stages and conditions in key growing regions.
• Comparative gross margins for major crops.
• Weather forecasts and their likely impact on crops.
• Drivers of changes in production, including planted area and yields, and in consumption, including food end uses.

Sources

• Build and maintain relationships with international trading teams, government statistical and trade promotion agencies, financial research teams and specialist media to gather a broad range of market intelligence.
• Consolidate and tailor market intelligence for internal and external audiences.

Internal

• Support trading decisions by identifying emerging market trends and anticipating and explaining price movements.
• Propose trading strategies to the commercial team, focusing on relative price spreads and defining entry, exit and stop-loss levels. Cover physical and futures markets, including geographical and time spreads.
• Monitor the outcomes of proposed trading strategies and promptly flag events that invalidate their underlying assumptions.
• Perform market valuations of existing trading strategies and liaise closely with the middle office.
• Share targeted analysis with the Group’s business units and provide follow-up support.
• Update trading contracts and provide backup support to the contract execution team.

External

• Support the commercial team with comprehensive market summaries highlighting the key drivers relevant to brewing customers.
• Distribute the “Weekly Barley Report” to key customers.
• Prepare thematic presentations and provide presentation support for specific customer meetings and Malteurop’s external relations activities.