Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.
This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions.
The Trading Strategist will develop and implement quantitative trading and portfolio strategies across core agricultural commodities, combining fundamental market intelligence, advanced analytics and commercial judgment. As a core member of the Central Prop Book trading desk, you will translate quantitative research into futures and options trading strategies, contribute to portfolio construction and risk allocation frameworks, and partner closely with quantitative researchers, traders and risk managers to deliver measurable improvements in risk-adjusted returns.
- Own the development, implementation and performance of quantitative trading strategies across core agricultural commodity futures and options, integrating quantitative research, fundamental market intelligence and commercial judgment.
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Suggest ideas and design for portfolio construction, position sizing and risk allocation frameworks that optimize risk-adjusted returns within the desk's risk mandate.
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Model agricultural market dynamics, including futures curve structure, seasonality, storage and carry, basis and inter-commodity relationships, and incorporate fundamental data such as supply and demand balances, weather and crop conditions into strategy design.
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Evaluate and monitor strategies through rigorous backtesting, performance attribution and scenario analysis, and implement improvements based on results.
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Partner with quantitative researchers to prioritize research, validate new models and accelerate deployment of analytical capabilities into production trading.
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Collaborate with traders, risk managers and the global fundamental research team to integrate supply and demand insights, assess market exposures, identify portfolio risks and develop effective mitigation strategies.
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Build decision-support tools and analytics that improve commercial decision making, and track emerging quantitative techniques to sustain competitive advantage.
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Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, scientific or related field or equivalent experience.
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Minimum of six years of experience in quantitative research, trading, portfolio management or risk management in commodity or financial markets.
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Strong knowledge of futures and options markets, including options pricing, volatility and risk sensitivities.
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Proficiency in Python and modern quantitative research and data analysis tools.
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Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative, scientific or related field.
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Demonstrated track record developing and deploying quantitative trading strategies in agricultural or broader commodity markets.
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Experience applying time-series econometrics, machine learning and portfolio optimization to trading problems.
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Experience working with fundamental agricultural data, including supply and demand, weather, crop and trade-flow data.
Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.
We welcome applications from people with disabilities and are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible recruitment process and workplace. We encourage candidates to let us know if they require any accommodations during the recruitment or interview process so we can support them appropriately.
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