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Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.”

Spencer

Spencer Wicks
Mintec CEO

Join a culture of innovation.

“Digital tools such as those supplied by Mintec have become essential to procurement teams.” 


Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

Spencer

Spencer Wicks
Mintec CEO


Current Vacancies

 

Our continued success is a direct result of our talented employees. We continually seek exceptional people who embody our core values and who will ensure excellence is maintained in every engagement with our clients. As a people centric company, we invest in personal development supported by mentoring to enable our employees to reach their full potential.

If your passion to support clients is matched by a desire to continually learn and develop as part of a successful growing business then we would love to hear from you.

 

 

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            CRO

Location:                        Various

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec is the leading global provider of food-related commodity prices, forecasts, and advanced analytics to the $9 trillion food industry; all delivered through its cutting-edge SaaS platform, Mintec Analytics. Mintec provides thousands of the world’s largest companies with critical data that underpins their procurement, budgeting and risk management covering more than 16,000 food ingredients and associated materials. Mintec empowers customers to better analyze their spend and understand supplier prices to ensure they are best placed to reduce costs, manage risk and increase their efficiency, helping to maximize margins.

Through rapid expansion and multiple acquisitions, we are primed for significant growth.

About you…

You hold the same principles and  hilosophies that we do – trust, honesty, grit, transparency, creativity, extreme ownership, accountability and a “growth-mindset”!

You are an experienced, aggressive, energetic, leader who engages others to get on board. You communicate an inspired and optimistic vision and win over colleagues, customers and business partners alike with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship skills. You are known for your high-achievement, positive energy, and strategic operating skills, and you’re constantly on the lookout for prospective deals and new business opportunities in the SaaS space.

Role and Responsibilities:

Mintec is seeking a Head of Americas with an exceptional track record of success to help lead the company through its next phase of growth. The VP of Americas will report to our CCO/CRO in developing and executing Mintec’s overall growth and go-to-market strategies and leading the expansion into the Americas. The Head of Americas will recruit, build, develop and lead Americas functions including sales, account management, and client success and will participate in strategic decisions to enable the company to achieve growth targets. Specifically, this person will:

  • Assume overall revenue development and growth attainment in the Americas. Set and communicate clear and actionable priorities coupled with a growth mindset and unite the team in supporting and achieving company revenue growth goals at high attainment across all segments in the Americas

  • Expand the business and team in the Americas, building, leading and structuring a strong Americas revenue generation team, leading from the front as a senior leader within the Mintec organization.

  • Train and develop around our newly defined sales process, educating the team on incentives, necessary training and on-boarding, quotas, performance reviews, sales strategies, account planning, forecasting metrics, methodologies, and systems.

  • Coach the Account Management and New Business Teams and build bench strength capable of driving market performance that is repeatable, predictable, and consistent.

  • Execute the vision, framework, and strategy to acquire new customers while expanding and renewing our current customer relationships to meet
    strategic growth targets. 

  • Integrate GTM teams and partner relationships from acquisitions.

  • Collaborates with peers throughout the team and across departmental lines.

  • Celebrate achievement and  performance and create a culture that is highly collaborative.

 Professional Qualifications:

  • Proven track record leading broad regional teams/organization for a mid-stage software/SaaS company and ARR of $30M+

  • Track record of carrying and exceeding annual new Business Development ARR team quota targets of $10M+ and Account Management teams with a 30% YoY growth target

  • Experience with sales methodologies i.e., MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.

  • Build and lead teams as a coach, but also is able to hands on in closing their
    largest deals and executing alongside their team

  • Passion for data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights from customers, competitors and the
    broader market to best inform cross-functional leaders

  • Enterprise Sales Leadership - demonstrated experience leading enterprise sales teams with over $10M net new revenue production annually

  • Customer Centric - develops and maintains relationships, is hands-on with deals and deeply cares about how the customer achieves their goals

  • People Manager and Mentor – extensive experience recruiting, retaining, and managing a highly
    skilled, metrics-oriented sales team.

Personal Characteristics:

  • Someone who is authentic, transparent, straightforward, and ethical at all times

  • Passionate about being in a results-oriented environment and has demonstrated ability to motivate teams

  • Blend of ability and mindset to drive execution of key initiatives but also serve as a strategic partner to the CRO

  • A hands-on leader comfortable with managing multiple priorities and clearly communicating expectations to the team

  • Exceptional teamwork skills that allows him/her to build trust and rapport through consistency and
    direct communication; ability to successfully partner with cross-functional teams

  • A high degree of emotional intelligence and intellectual horsepower

  • Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment.

  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills

  • Highly organized with close attention to detail

  • Degree educated or equivalent academic/work experience.

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            CRO

Location:                        Various

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec is the world’s leading independent provider of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG, Industrial, Manufacturing, and Financial Services/Professional Services industries. Through rapid expansion and multiple acquisitions, we are primed for significant growth. 

We are seeking a Head of Americas New Business Development. As the leader in this space, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s largest food, pharma, professional services, industrial companies and brands. These companies rely on our deep, global content and online platform to help make better buying and selling decisions and improve their bottom-line.

Your goal will be to build and lead a team to target new accounts in the Food Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Industrial, Financial Services, Professional Services, and AgriFood segments. 

We want you to play an integral role in our success!

About you…

You hold the same principles and philosophies that we do – trust, honesty, grit, transparency, creativity, extreme ownership, accountability and a “growth-mindset”!
You are an aggressive, energetic, leader who engages others to get on board. You communicate an inspired and optimistic vision and win over colleagues, customers and business partners alike with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship skills. You are known for your high-achievement, positive energy, and strategic operating skills, and you’re constantly on the lookout for prospective deals and new business opportunities in the SaaS space. 

About The Role:
Reporting to the Head of Americas, the role is both a tactical and strategic one - leading a team of new business development “hunters” to achieve ARR, revenue and bookings performance, whilst ensuring customer satisfaction and value creation. The team of new Business Development executives have a quota carrying role, responsible for acquiring new logos and referenceable customers.
The Sales Director will develop and drive the sales strategy, territory management and growth for the Americas and fosters a culture of success and ongoing quota achievement. Leading from the front, the Head of New Business Development supports the building of key customer relationships and participates in sales activities that enable the successful closure of key strategic business opportunities.  

Your Focus:
•    Ongoing management of a high-performance sales team of 6-8 members covering 2k+ prospects in the Americas
•    Ensuring that the sales account executives overachieve on their individual sales targets and enabling Mintec to meet its overall strategic business objectives
•    Providing effective tactical and strategic account planning to manage the overall sales process and drive deals to closure
•    Training, mentoring, and developing team members in Mintec’s sales methodologies and processes
•    Consistently monitoring the sales forecasts and pipeline of the team, ensuring that all activity is accurately tracked through the CRM system
•    Ensuring that all stages of the sales cycle are undertaken effectively to achieve the required results whilst adhering to Mintec’s chosen sales methodology - MEDDPICC
•    Driving complex, embedded analytics sales cycles and effectively present Mintec’s value proposition to both C-level business and IT stakeholders through strategic value-led engagements
•    Providing regular management information reporting including detailed and accurate sales forecasting for the senior management team and other key stakeholders
•    Identifying, managing, and reporting risk ensuring that any material issues are escalated in an appropriate and timely manner
•    Acquire and maintain a thorough working knowledge of Mintec’s Business Intelligence software products and services and a deep understanding of their applications
•    Championing knowledge-sharing activities across the regions and teams
•    Building effective working partnerships with other business areas including Marketing, Product, Customer Success and Account Management.
•    Leverage and enhance partner relationships to drive additional value and revenue
•    Requirement for regular travel for in-person meetings with prospects and partners to develop key relationships and participate in closing strategic opportunities

Required Experience and Skills:

•    Extensive experience of quota-carrying sales of business applications or software platforms including sales team management experience in the Americas
•    Demonstrable personal track record of over-achievement of team sales targets with referenceable client wins
•    Extensive experience of senior level stakeholder engagement on complex data and Business-led opportunities
•    Support and lead the team to build pipeline of future business at least 3X annual quota
•    Teach the concept to sell “high and wide” across senior decision makers and stakeholders as well as users and buyers
•    Success selling into firms with over $500M in revenues, preferably “XL” accounts over $10B in revenue
•    Track record of carrying and exceeding annual quota targets of $10M+
•    Proven experience in building, training, motivating, and managing high-performing sales teams
•    Strong people management skills; acting as a role model and mentor with strong listening and coaching skills
•    Working knowledge of SaaS/DaaS, Business Intelligence competitor products, Data Preparation, Database, Market Intelligence, Analytics and Enterprise Data Warehouses. Understanding of Big Data is preferred
•    Demonstrable knowledge of key Return on Investment and Total Cost of Ownership principles
•    Experience with sales methodologies i.e., MEDDPICC, Challenger, etc.
•    Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment
•    Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills
•    Highly organized with close attention to detail
•    Degree educated or equivalent academic/work experience

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            CRO

Location:                        Various

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec is the leading global provider of food-related commodity prices, forecasts, and advanced analytics to the $9 trillion food industry; all delivered through its cutting-edge SaaS platform, Mintec Analytics. Mintec provides thousands of the world’s largest companies with critical data that underpins
their procurement, budgeting and risk management covering more than 16,000 food ingredients and associated materials. Mintec empowers customers to better analyze their spend and understand supplier prices to ensure they are best placed to reduce costs, manage risk and increase their efficiency, helping to maximize margins.

Through rapid expansion and multiple acquisitions, we are primed for significant growth.

About you…

You hold the same principles and philosophies that we do – trust, honesty, grit, transparency, creativity, extreme ownership, accountability and a “growth-mindset”!

You are an experienced, aggressive, energetic, leader who engages others to get on board. You communicate an inspired and optimistic vision and win over colleagues, customers and business partners alike with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship skills. You are known for your high-achievement, positive energy, and strategic operating skills, and you’re constantly on the lookout for prospective deals and new business opportunities in the SaaS space.

Role and Responsibilities:
Mintec is seeking a Head of Client Success Americas with an exceptional track record of success to help lead the company through its next phase of growth. The VP of Americas will report to our CCO/CRO in developing and executing Mintec’s overall client relationships and utilization strategies as we expand into the Americas. The Head of Americas will recruit, build, develop and lead the client success function for the Americas and will participate in strategic decisions to enable the company to achieve growth targets. Specifically, this person will:

  • Develop and execute customer success strategies for the Americas region

  • Manage customer relationships and ensure customer satisfaction

  • Build and lead a high-performing customer success team

  • Work with sales, product, and engineering teams to ensure that customers are successful

  • Identify and resolve customer issues

  • Track and report on customer success metrics

  • Stay up to date on industry trends and best practices

Professional Qualifications:

  • Proven track record leading broad regional teams/organization for a mid-stage software/SaaS company and ARR of $30M+

  • Build and lead teams as a coach, but also is able to be hands on with Clients

  • Passion for data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights from customers, competitors and the broader market to best inform cross-functional leaders

  • Customer Centric - develops and maintains relationships, is hands-on with deals and deeply
    cares about how the customer achieves their goals

  • People Manager and Mentor – extensive experience recruiting, retaining, and managing a highly
    skilled, metrics-oriented Client Success team

  • Excellent communication and presentation skills

Personal Characteristics:

  • Someone who is authentic, transparent, straightforward, and ethical at all times

  • Passionate about being in a results-oriented environment and has demonstrated ability to motivate teams

  • Blend of ability and mindset to drive execution of key initiatives but also serve as a strategic partner to the CRO

  • A hands-on leader comfortable with managing multiple priorities and clearly communicating expectations to the team

  • Exceptional teamwork skills that allows him/her to build trust and rapport through consistency and direct communication; ability to successfully partner with cross-functional teams

  • A high degree of emotional intelligence and intellectual horsepower

  • Experience working in a fast-paced, team environment.

  • Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills

  • Highly organized with close attention to detail

  • Degree educated or equivalent academic/work experience.

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            Sales Director

Location:                        Various

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Market Analyst to join its growing team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s top food manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

Mintec is rapidly growing serving this huge and burgeoning global market and is seeking an experienced and ambitious Business Development Executive to join our Sales team. Using our lead generation processes and your own research, identify, nurture and manage the generation of quality sales leads that enable software demonstrations, that lead to increased sales. Your focus will be on expanding the Companies client base across Europe

Responsibilities:

• Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that knowledge to potential clients as directed

• Manage the quality of lead generation by researching, compiling and maintaining lists of prospective clients through our lead generation campaigns

• Contact and schedule ‘demo’ appointments as directed

• Meet or exceed agreed sales targets. Document, track and monitor all leads and activities in Salesforce

• Produce basic sales reports as directed. Follow up prospects who responded to marketing and advertising campaigns as directed

• Provide support and develop sales initiatives to meet targets

• Represent the Company at seminars and trade fairs as required

• To ensure ISO 27001 training is attended and all mandatory documents have been read to ensure working practices comply

Required Qualifications:

We are looking for someone with specific experience and proven success within Sales or Business Development within a relevant market, such as SaaS or a subscription service. 

Experience and Skills:

• Minimum 2-3 years’ experience of working in a business development or sales role, with successful experience of lead generation and conversion within the SaaS or subscription service markets

• Experience with a similar product to our offering would be ideal

• The ability to speak European languages would be ideal

• Excellent negotiation skills, being able to demonstrate the ability to apply commercial experience and a consultative selling approach

• Strong networking and influencing skills, demonstrable ability to work independently and intuitively to build relationships and influence decision making across large organisations

• Ability to build trusting relationships and increase clients confidence in our products

• Analytical and logical ability to enable you to understand both our product and the clients needs and assess how to align both

• Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results.

• Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate complex information.

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            Sales Director

Location:                        Various

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, the leading price reporting and analytics firm focused on the food industry, is seeking a Business Development Executive to join its growing team in North America. As a leader in this space, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s largest food companies and brands. These companies rely on our content and online platform to help their procurement teams purchase smarter.

Mintec is rapidly growing and is seeking an experienced and ambitious Business Development Executive to join our Sales team in North America. Your goal will be to target new accounts across North America, ranging from small food manufacturers to Fortune 100 companies. We are just beginning to develop our presence in North America, so there is tremendous opportunity in this region.

Responsibilities:

• Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that knowledge to potential clients 

• Provide detailed demonstrations of Mintec’s online platform and key value propositions

• Negotiate contracts and close business with monthly targets

• Achieve sales KPIs including meeting volume

• Meet or exceed agreed sales targets through closing new business contracts

• Prospect new logos while taking advantage of support tools such as ZoomInfo

• Document, track and monitor all leads, opportunities, and activities in Salesforce

• Follow up on marketing-generated, warm leads

• Represent the Company at seminars and trade fairs as required

• Comply with Mintec system and company requirements regarding security and compliance

Required Experience: 

We are looking for someone with specific experience and proven success within Sales or Business Development at a price reporting agency or market intelligence firm.

Experience selling to procurement roles is desirable. 

Recommended Skills and Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience of working in a business development or sales role

• Experience selling subscription access to an online platform

• Analytical and technical, able to learn our product quickly

• Excellent negotiation skills, being able to demonstrate the ability to apply commercial experience and a consultative selling approach

• Experience working with Salesforce would be ideal

• Ability to build trusting relationships and increase clients confidence in our products

• Competitive mindset

• Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results

• Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate complex information.

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            Sales Director

Location:                        Various

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec is the world’s leading independent provider of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG, Industrial and capital goods supply chains. Through rapid expansion and multiple acquisitions, we are primed for significant growth. 

We are seeking Key Account Managers to join our growing team. As the leader in this space, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s largest food, pharma, industrial companies and brands. These companies rely on our deep, global content and online platform to help make better buying and selling decisions and improve their bottom-line.

Your goal will be to grow a specific number of large Fortune 500 Key Accounts. With an aggressive compensation plan, overachievement multipliers and significant benefits, the ability to earn is unlimited!
We want you to play an integral role in our success!

About you…

You hold the same principles and philosophies that we do – trust, honesty, grit, transparency, creativity, extreme ownership, accountability and a “growth-mindset”!
You are an aggressive, energetic, self-starter who engages others to get on board. You communicate an inspired and optimistic vision and win over colleagues, customers and business partners alike with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship skills. You are known for your high-achievement, positive energy, and strategic operating skills, and you’re constantly on the lookout for prospective deals and new business opportunities in the SaaS space. You thrive in an independent mode but also value collaboration.

In addition, you have the following attributes:
•    Deep understanding of the business and technical contexts in which organizations invest in data platforms/SaaS solutions.
•    Desire to use proven and scalable sales, qualification and forecasting processes.
•    Ability to build relationships inside of your accounts and establish trust internally and externally.
•    Innovative vision and foresight to anticipate and create new opportunities with customers.
•    Highly achievement oriented - you want to see the leaderboard because you are always at the top!

Responsibilities
Surrounded by a strong support team, you will develop and execute a strategic and comprehensive business plan for your territory, including identifying opportunities for growth within your Book of Business, and mapping the benefits of the Mintec platform to business requirements. You will take responsibility for accurate forecasting, consistent monthly/quarterly revenue delivery, and utilization of existing product and market expertise to implement territory and account business plans.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

•    Develop detailed account-based sales plans and sales forecasts.
•    Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to clients.
•    Provide detailed demonstrations of Mintec’s online platform and key value propositions.
•    Negotiate contracts and close business with monthly targets.
•    Meet and exceed agreed sales targets through growing your account base through cross-sell and up-sell
•    Document, track and monitor all leads, opportunities, and activities in Salesforce.
•    Manage a multi-state territory of 25-75 accounts.
•    Take control of active sales cycles while building new business pipeline through prospecting and relationship building with top tier Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Professional Services, and Food and Beverage companies
•     Sell “high and wide” across multiple Lines of Business simultaneously (Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.).

Requirements:

•    7+ years of technology-based enterprise sales or Account Management experience with increasing responsibilities; SaaS/data/analytics experience is a must.
•    Ability to travel to client sites as necessary and with short-notice
•    Knowledge of the supply-chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space and complex Enterprise SaaS sales experience strongly preferred.
•    “Challenger” mindset to help your clients leverage our value to address business pain
•    Track record of over-achieving quota (consistently top 10-20% of company) in past positions
•    Self-starter with a “Hunter” mentality
•    Ability to build trusting relationships and increase client’s confidence in our products.
•    Competitive mindset
•    Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results.
•    Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders across the buying continuum.
•    Ability to operate in a rapidly changing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a cadence of delivering consistent results.
•    Success selling into multi-billion-dollar businesses.
•    Track record of carrying a BoB over $2.0M and exceeding annual growth quotas 
•    Previous experience with SPIN, Strategic Selling, Challenger Sales, MEDDPICC, detailed sales processes, and forecast methodologies.
•    BA/BS or equivalent educational background

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            Sales Director

Location:                        Various

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec is the world’s leading independent provider of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG, Industrial and capital goods supply chains. Through rapid expansion and multiple acquisitions, we are primed for significant growth. 

We are seeking Key Account Managers to join our growing team. As the leader in this space, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s largest food, pharma, industrial companies and brands. These companies rely on our deep, global content and online platform to help make better buying and selling decisions and improve their bottom-line.

Your goal will be to grow a specific number of large Fortune 500 Key Accounts. With an aggressive compensation plan, overachievement multipliers and significant benefits, the ability to earn is unlimited!
We want you to play an integral role in our success!

About you…

You hold the same principles and philosophies that we do – trust, honesty, grit, transparency, creativity, extreme ownership, accountability and a “growth-mindset”!
You are an aggressive, energetic, self-starter who engages others to get on board. You communicate an inspired and optimistic vision and win over colleagues, customers and business partners alike with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship skills. You are known for your high-achievement, positive energy, and strategic operating skills, and you’re constantly on the lookout for prospective deals and new business opportunities in the SaaS space. You thrive in an independent mode but also value collaboration.

In addition, you have the following attributes:
•    Deep understanding of the business and technical contexts in which organizations invest in data platforms/SaaS solutions.
•    Desire to use proven and scalable sales, qualification and forecasting processes.
•    Ability to build relationships inside of your accounts and establish trust internally and externally.
•    Innovative vision and foresight to anticipate and create new opportunities with customers.
•    Highly achievement oriented - you want to see the leaderboard because you are always at the top!

Responsibilities
Surrounded by a strong support team, you will develop and execute a strategic and comprehensive business plan for your territory, including identifying opportunities for growth within your Book of Business, and mapping the benefits of the Mintec platform to business requirements. You will take responsibility for accurate forecasting, consistent monthly/quarterly revenue delivery, and utilization of existing product and market expertise to implement territory and account business plans.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

•    Develop detailed account-based sales plans and sales forecasts.
•    Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to clients.
•    Provide detailed demonstrations of Mintec’s online platform and key value propositions.
•    Negotiate contracts and close business with monthly targets.
•    Meet and exceed agreed sales targets through growing your account base through cross-sell and up-sell
•    Document, track and monitor all leads, opportunities, and activities in Salesforce.
•    Manage a multi-state territory of 25-75 accounts.
•    Take control of active sales cycles while building new business pipeline through prospecting and relationship building with top tier Retail, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Professional Services, and Food and Beverage companies
•     Sell “high and wide” across multiple Lines of Business simultaneously (Procurement, Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, etc.).

Requirements:

•    7+ years of technology-based enterprise sales or Account Management experience with increasing responsibilities; SaaS/data/analytics experience is a must.
•    Ability to travel to client sites as necessary and with short-notice
•    Knowledge of the supply-chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space and complex Enterprise SaaS sales experience strongly preferred.
•    “Challenger” mindset to help your clients leverage our value to address business pain
•    Track record of over-achieving quota (consistently top 10-20% of company) in past positions
•    Self-starter with a “Hunter” mentality
•    Ability to build trusting relationships and increase client’s confidence in our products.
•    Competitive mindset
•    Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results.
•    Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders across the buying continuum.
•    Ability to operate in a rapidly changing, fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with a cadence of delivering consistent results.
•    Success selling into multi-billion-dollar businesses.
•    Track record of carrying a BoB over $2.0M and exceeding annual growth quotas 
•    Previous experience with SPIN, Strategic Selling, Challenger Sales, MEDDPICC, detailed sales processes, and forecast methodologies.
•    BA/BS or equivalent educational background

DEPARTMENT: Data & Intelligence

RESPONSIBLE TO: Chief Analyst

LOCATION: Flexible 

The Company:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Forecast Analyst to join its growing team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s top manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

Mintec is rapidly growing, serving this huge and burgeoning global market, and is seeking an ambitious Analyst to join our Forecast team. Using best in class proprietary price forecasting methodology, the Forecast team analyse and forecast a wide range of food and non-food commodity prices to provide purchasing recommendations and pivotal insight to our clients.

The successful candidate will be a valuable member of the Forecasting team, overseeing commodity price forecasts and delivering hedging recommendations to Mintec’s customers.

The role:

  • Becoming an expert in Mintec’s price forecast methodology

  • Evaluating and updating forecasts

  • Interpreting analytical content and relaying it in a written format

  • Developing the analysis to launch and maintain new forecasts

  • Delivering topical webinars and joining calls with customers to support the adoption of the forecasting product

  • Participating in forecast discussions to ensure key knowledge is shared across the forecasting team

  • Continuously demonstrating initiative by proposing methods and techniques to improve current forecast methodology

  • Continually challenging, refining and improving operational processes to achieve improvement in productivity and quality of service

  • Undertaking courses and training to acquire expertise in Forecast methodologies as part of the career development of this role 

Required qualifications:

We are looking for someone who has an inquisitive, rational and intellectual approach to analysing and interpreting data. The successful candidate must also possess good communication and writing skills.

The ideal candidate would have experience in either technical analysis or commodity pricing analysis (fundamentals, futures, etc). Successful candidates who don’t have experience in Technical Analysis would be given the opportunity to attend a course in the Society of Technical Analysis to develop expertise in the field. Candidates with experience in technical analysis but without the necessary knowledge in commodities, would also be trained. 

Experience and Education:

  • University degree in Economics, Finance, Engineering or in a similar numeric field would be beneficial

  • Diploma in Technical Analysis from the STA or equivalent (or relevant experience in technical analysis/commodity price analysis)

Skills:

  • Understanding of commodities price theory, including the fundamental drivers for supply, demand, trade flows and prices and their mutual interaction would be beneficial

  • Understanding of financial markets in general or commodity futures markets, in particular, would also be beneficial

  • Excellent analytical, qualitative and quantitative skills, with strong attention to detail and passion for accuracy

  • Good communication and presentation skills with a proven ability to support the Commercial team and members of the forecast team, whilst build and maintain positive, effective relationships across all levels in an organisation

  • Excellent writing skills, able to articulate insight and reports clearly and concisely

  • Self-starter with strong continuous improvement mindset

Department:                Forecasting

Responsible to:            Fundamentals Team Leader

Location:                        Copenhagen, Denmark

Contract Type:               15-20 hours per week

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Commodity Analyst to join its growing team.

In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data and analytics provider to many of the world’s top food manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

MAIN PURPOSE OF JOB:

The successful candidate will be a valuable member of the forecasting team and will update and develop analyses of market developments within a range of commodities, including metals, energy sources, plastics, and edibles. As a student employee at Mintec you will be able to schedule your working hours to a great extent. The working hours will be 15-20 per week. We expect a certain degree of flexibility near deadlines, but we will accommodate your requests in relation to your exams and schedule.

This position is based in our Copenhagen office.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Maintain fundamental analyses of commodities, which analyse supply, demand, inventory levels, cost driver developments and financial measures

  • Support the identification and development of additional analytical indicators

  • Collect and interpret data from a wide range of sources including industry organizations, The Federal Reserve, Eurostat, Census Bureau, CFTC, BLS, and many more.

 

THE CANDIDATE:
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    Studies HA (almen), HA (mat), or Polit 2nd, or 3rd year

  • Possesses strong quantitative and analytical skills with attention to detail and accuracy

  • Is fluent in English

  • Speaks Danish at an intermediate level or better

  • Works independently, professionally and in a well-structured manner

  • Is able to identify problems, to collect data, to establish facts, and draw valid conclusions

  • Enjoys repetitive tasks based on practical procedures and systems

  • Has an interest in econometric techniques

  • Has a solid knowledge of Excel

WHAT WE OFFER:

  • Join a young team of 14 people (7 of which are also students)

  • An opportunity to work for a fast-growing international company

  • Great support and thorough training in analysing commodity markets

  • Flexible working hours that can easily be combined with studies

  • Central location in Vesterbro

  • Lunch scheme with a broad choice of options and free coffee and tea.

     

If you think this sounds like a great opportunity, we would appreciate hearing from you. Even if you do not match every requirement 100%, we would welcome your application in English (with a cover letter, CV, and grade transcript).

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Head of Global Marketing

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a product and sector marketing leader, you are an energetic, self-starting SME focused on results. As a product marketing evangelist, you inspire and win over colleagues, customers, and partners with your articulate communication, commitment to excellence, and relationship-building skills. Known for high achievement and positive energy, you strategically drive growth and surpass marketing targets in the SaaS industry. While thriving independently, you also value collaboration as a critical asset.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

Leading a strong team and as an individual contributor, you will develop, implement and execute the GTM strategy in partnership with Product and Commercial teams to drive measurable commercial growth. As an experienced SME, you evangelize to bring our solutions to life, developing messaging, collateral and thought leadership that resonates with our target audience.

As a leader, you collaborate closely with stakeholders and play a critical role in developing, implementing and executing innovative product marketing strategies that align with customer needs and market trends.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Develop and execute detailed product marketing strategies to deliver high growth.

  • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.

  • Lead cross-functional collaborations to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into product marketing strategies.

  • Serve as a passionate advocate for our solutions, presenting at events and promoting benefits and unique value to target audiences.

  • Conduct product and solution mapping exercises to align offerings with sector requirements and customer pain points.

  • Lead content ideation and the Content Marketing Strategy to develop relevant content and thought leadership pieces for sector-specific marketing initiatives.

  • Utilize expertise to create compelling messaging and materials that educate and engage the target audience around the unique value of our solutions.

  • Deep insight across current trends, competitors, and VOC/customer feedback to refine strategies and maintain a competitive edge.

  • Interpret and make changes based on campaign performance, optimize strategies, and achieve marketing goals based on responding to data insights.

You should have:

  • 5+ years of technology-based enterprise product marketing experience; SaaS experience is a must. Demonstrable expertise in leading and executing cutting-edge SaaS marketing strategies.

  • Strong understanding of the supply chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is strongly preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is a must.

  • Possess a strong understanding of product marketing techniques for high-growth B2B businesses, focusing on SaaS subscriptions.

  • Expertise in developing product lead marketing aligned with the product development and release cycle.

  • Expertise in B2B SaaS product marketing and lead generation to support revenue growth.

  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.

  • Solid experience in developing SEO and product-aligned marketing messaging to support revenue development.

  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.

  • Expertise mapping offerings to sector requirements and addressing customer needs effectively.

  • An excellent presenter, advocate, and articulator of unique solution benefits.

  • Strong analytical capabilities to track performance, measure ROI, and provide data-driven recommendations.

  • Results Orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Senior Product & Sector Marketing Team Lead

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a senior team member, you are an experienced SaaS marketer, and SME focused on results. As a product marketing evangelist, you have a strong understanding of our customers’ needs and can articulate the benefits of our solutions. Known for high achievement and positive energy, you strategically drive growth and surpass marketing targets in the SaaS industry. You collaborate closely with stakeholders to develop and implement innovative product marketing strategies that align with customer needs and market trends.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

As a senior member of a strong team, you will shape and execute the GTM strategy to drive measurable commercial growth. As an SME, you evangelize to bring our solutions to life, developing messaging, collateral and thought leadership that resonates with our target audience.

You collaborate closely with stakeholders and play a leading role in designing and implementing innovative product marketing strategies that align with customer needs and market trends.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Implement and execute detailed product marketing strategies to deliver high growth.
  • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing strategies.
  • Advocate our solutions, present at events, and create compelling materials to communicate unique value.
  • Conduct product and solution mapping exercises to align offerings with sector requirements and customer pain points.
  • Lead content ideation and the Content Marketing Strategy to develop relevant content and thought leadership pieces for sector-specific marketing initiatives.
  • Utilize expertise to create compelling messaging and materials that educate and engage the target audience around the unique value of our solutions.
  • Deep insight across current trends, competitors, and VOC/customer feedback to refine strategies and maintain a competitive edge.
  • Interpret and make changes based on campaign performance, optimize strategies, and achieve marketing goals based on responding to data insights.

You should have:

  • 2+ years of technology-based enterprise product marketing experience; SaaS experience is a must.
  • Knowledge of the supply chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is strongly preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience preferred.
  • Possess a good understanding of product marketing techniques for high-growth B2B businesses, focusing on SaaS subscriptions.
  • Experience developing product lead marketing aligned with the product development and release cycle.
  • Experience in B2B SaaS product marketing and lead generation to support revenue growth.
  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.
  • Experience in developing SEO and product-aligned marketing messaging to support revenue development.
  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.
  • Familiar with mapping offerings to sector requirements and addressing customer needs effectively.
  • A good presenter, advocate, and articulator of unique solution benefits.
  • Good analytical capabilities to track performance, measure ROI, and provide data-driven recommendations.
  • Results Orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Head of Global Marketing

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a growth marketing leader, you are an energetic self-starter focused on results measured by successful lead generation. You will be responsible for designing, building, and launching effective campaigns while optimizing campaign performance and ensuring consistent messaging and branding across all channels.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

Leading a strong growth marketing team, you will develop and execute marketing campaigns to drive measurable commercial growth. Your expertise with various marketing tactics, strong analytical skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams will be crucial in achieving demanding lead-generation targets and enhancing the company's brand visibility. 

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Develop detailed marketing campaign strategies to deliver high growth.
  • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing campaigns.
  • Lead the development of impactful B2B marketing campaigns across multiple channels (email, advertising, webinars, social media, SEO, and events) to align with company goals.
  • Design and deliver a robust reporting framework that provides accurate and timely marketing and sales performance insights, including pipeline health and other leading indicators.
  • Develop a comprehensive social media strategy aligned with overall campaign objectives.
  • Increase brand exposure by targeting channels and platforms to reach the optimum audience.
  • Interpret analysis to identify trends and make adjustments to optimize campaign performance and generate high-quality leads supporting high conversion ratios.
  • Identify and secure successful sponsorship arrangements by managing relationships with critical partners
  • Develop and implement strategies to improve search engine rankings.
  • Deliver comprehensive campaign metrics and actionable insights to stakeholders and senior management.

You should have:

  • 5+ years of technology-based enterprise campaign marketing experience; SaaS experience is a must.
  • Expert knowledge of delivering a digital-first campaign strategy
  • Strong knowledge of the supply-chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is a must.
  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.
  • Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results.
  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated expertise in leading teams to deliver successful cutting-edge SaaS/B2B marketing campaigns.
  • Proficiency in using campaign management and marketing automation software.
  • Ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions for optimizing campaign effectiveness.
  • Thrive in a fast-paced environment, adept at navigating changing priorities and market dynamics.
  • Strong analytical capabilities to track performance, measure ROI, and provide data-driven recommendations.
  • Results Orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Growth Marketing Team Lead

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a senior growth marketing manager, you are an energetic self-starter focused on results measured by successful lead generation. You will be responsible for designing, building, and launching effective campaigns while optimizing campaign performance and ensuring consistent messaging and branding across all channels.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

As a Senior Campaign Manager, you will design and execute marketing campaigns to drive measurable commercial growth. Your substantial experience in various marketing tactics, sound analytical skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams will be crucial in achieving robust lead-generation targets and enhancing the company's brand visibility. You will ensure the effective execution of campaigns while maintaining consistent messaging and branding across all channels.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Build and execute detailed marketing campaign plans to deliver high growth.
  • Acquire an in-depth knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.
  • Design and implement a robust reporting framework that provides accurate and timely marketing and sales performance insights, including pipeline health and other leading indicators.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing strategies.
  • Undertake the development of impactful B2B marketing campaigns across multiple channels (email, advertising, webinars, social media, SEO, events) to align with company goals.
  • Develop and launch detailed social media plans aligned with overall campaign objectives.
  • Enable brand exposure by targeting new channels and platforms to reach a wider audience.
  • Interpret data, identify trends, and make adjustments to optimize campaign performance and generate leads.
  • Implement successful sponsorship opportunities to support lead generation.
  • Build and execute plans to drive social media engagement and improve search engine rankings.
  • Create comprehensive campaign metrics.

You should have:

  • 3+ years of technology-based enterprise campaign marketing experience; SaaS experience is a must.
  • Strong knowledge of delivering a digital-first campaign strategy
  • Understanding of the supply-chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is desirable.
  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.
  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.
  • Demonstrable expertise in delivering cutting-edge SaaS/B2B marketing campaigns.
  • Strong knowledge using campaign management and marketing automation software.
  • Ability to interpret data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions for optimizing campaign effectiveness.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, adept at navigating changing priorities and market dynamics.
  • Strong analytical capabilities to track performance, measure ROI, and provide data-driven recommendations.
  • Results-orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Growth Marketing Team Lead

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a Campaign Manager, you are an energetic self-starter focused on results measured by successful lead generation. You will be responsible for building, executing, and launching effective campaigns while optimizing campaign performance and ensuring consistent messaging and branding across all channels.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

As a Campaign Manager, you will build, execute, and launch marketing campaigns to drive measurable commercial growth. Your experience in various marketing tactics, good analytical skills, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams will be crucial in achieving lead-generation targets and enhancing the company's brand visibility. You will ensure the effective execution of campaigns while maintaining consistent messaging and branding across all channels. 

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Build and execute marketing campaign plans to deliver high growth.
  • Acquire knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.
  • Implement and maintain a robust reporting framework that provides accurate and timely marketing and sales performance insights, including pipeline health and other leading indicators.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing strategies.
  • Undertake the execution of B2B marketing campaigns across multiple channels (email, advertising, webinars, social media, SEO, events) to align with company goals.
  • Execute and maintain a social media action plan aligned with overall campaign objectives.
  • Support brand exposure by targeting new channels and platforms to reach a wider audience.
  • Work with data, identify trends, and make adjustments to optimize campaign performance and generate leads.
  • Execute successful sponsorship opportunities to support lead generation.
  • Execute plans to drive social media engagement and improve search engine rankings.
  • Deliver campaign metrics.

You should have:

  • 2+ years of Campaign Marketing experience with a technology or similar company preferred.
  • Knowledge of delivering a digital-first campaign plan
  • Some knowledge of the supply chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is desirable.
  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.
  • Self-motivated and quick to get started, demonstrating the drive to achieve the best results.
  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.
  • Good knowledge of using campaign management and marketing automation software.
  • Experience working with data to make data-driven decisions for optimizing campaign effectiveness.
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, adept at navigating changing priorities and market dynamics.
  • Good analytical capabilities to track performance, measure ROI, and provide data-driven recommendations.
  • Results-orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Head of Global Marketing

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As the Marketing Operations Team Lead, you are an energetic self-starter focused on results measured by successful lead generation. You will be responsible for managing the technology stack, evaluating new marketing technology and managing all aspects of the associated marketing database.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

As the Marketing Operations Team Leader, you will manage the technology stack and evaluate new marketing technology and associated marketing database. Your primary focus will be overseeing and optimizing the marketing technology infrastructure, ensuring its efficient use to support marketing activities. You will also manage marketing data and integrations, develop reporting and analytics capabilities, create all segmentations and lists, and maintain marketing processes. You will also administer the Marketing Website working with the in-house teams and vendors to optimize website performance. In addition, you will manage a team of designers, coordinating their support for projects.

Your experience in marketing technology and data will be crucial in achieving lead-generation targets and enhancing the company's brand visibility.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Lead, manage and Optimize Marketing Technology to ensure effective use of the marketing technology stack to support marketing activities.
  • Acquire knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.
  • Design and deliver a robust reporting framework that provides accurate and timely marketing and sales performance insights, including pipeline health and other leading indicators.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing strategies.
  • Manage data and Integrations and maintain data accuracy, quality, and integration between systems for seamless operations.
  • Develop actionable insights by establishing reporting and analytics capabilities across platforms.
  • Lead projects to enhance marketing processes, including website management, SEO, and lead generation workflows to optimize efficiency and effectiveness.
  • Lead the design and development of materials, including landing pages and microsites.
  • Stay updated with best practices: for marketing technology and data management trends.
  • Provide guidance and training on marketing technology and data to the marketing team.
  • Align marketing technology with other systems through collaboration with teams.
  • Manage the design team in creating graphics, videos, and visuals to support marketing campaigns and activities.

You should have:

  • 5+ years of marketing operations experience with a technology or similar company preferred. 
  • Exp[ertise using marketing technology to deliver a digital-first strategy.
  • Understanding the supply chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is preferred. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is essential.
  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.
  • Strong expertise in working with HubSpot and Salesforce systems.
  • Strong knowledge of marketing data management and integration to ensure data quality.
  • Proficiency in reporting and analytics across platforms, providing actionable insights.
  • Experience in website management, SEO optimization, and lead generation workflows.
  • Expertise using campaign management and marketing automation software.
  • Expertise in working with data to make data-driven decisions for optimizing effectiveness.
  • Analytical mindset with the ability to monitor and analyze marketing performance metrics, providing data-driven recommendations.
  • Results-orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.
  • Flexible to adapt to changing technology landscapes and identify opportunities for process optimization.
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Department:              Marketing

Responsible to:         Marketing Operations Team Leader

Company

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The Role:

As a Senior Marketing Operations Manager, you are an energetic self-starter focused on results measured by successful lead generation. You will have a crucial role in managing and optimizing the marketing technology stack and associated marketing database.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities:

As the Senior Marketing Operations Manager, you are crucial in managing and optimizing the marketing technology stack and associated marketing database. Your primary focus will be on managing and optimizing the current technology and marketing data, along with implementing new technology as required to support marketing activities and achieve commercial goals. You will leverage data, analytics, and technology to drive marketing performance and enhance customer experiences.

You will also manage marketing data and integrations, implement reporting, data segmentation, data hygiene, data maintenance and analytics capabilities, and maintain marketing processes.

Your experience managing marketing systems and data will be crucial in achieving lead-generation targets and enhancing the company's brand visibility.

Other responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

  • Manage and maintain marketing technology and data to ensure effective use in support of marketing activities.

  • Acquire knowledge of our full range of products and services and convey that value to customers and/or potential clients through marketing materials.

  • Deliver and maintain a robust reporting framework that provides accurate and timely marketing and sales performance insights, including pipeline health and other leading indicators.

  • Collaborate cross-functionally to capture stakeholder needs, align offerings, and incorporate them into marketing strategies.

  • Maintain data accuracy, quality, and system integration for seamless operations and reporting.

  • Deliver actionable insights by establishing reporting and analytics capabilities across platforms.

  • Build and update marketing processes to optimize efficiency and effectiveness, including website management, SEO, and lead generation workflows.

  • Implement changes in line with best practices: for marketing technology and data management trends for implementation.

  • Maintain marketing technology and data in line with other systems.

You should have:

  • 2+ years of marketing operations experience with a technology or similar company preferred.

  • Experience using marketing technology to deliver a digital-first strategy.

  • Knowledge of the supply chain, commodities, or market intelligence/research space is desirable. Complex Enterprise Software marketing experience is preferred.

  • Self-starter with a competitive mindset and a track record of over-achieving in past positions.

  • Attention to detail with the ability to understand and disseminate our value to stakeholders.

  • Experience working with HubSpot and Salesforce systems.

  • Good knowledge of marketing data management and integration practices, ensuring data accuracy and quality.

  • Experience with reporting and analytics across platforms, providing actionable insights.

  • Knowledge of website management, SEO optimization, and lead generation workflows.

  • Experience using campaign management and marketing automation software.

  • Experience working with data to make data-driven decisions for optimizing effectiveness.

  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, adept at navigating changing priorities.

  • Analytical mindset with the ability to monitor and analyze marketing performance metrics, providing data-driven recommendations.

  • Results-orientated and driven to overachieve goals to improve marketing impact.

  • Flexible to adapt to changing technology landscapes and identify opportunities for process optimization.

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Department:              HR

Responsible to:         Head of HR

Purpose of the role

Working in partnership with the teams the HRBP will provide advice, guidance, and operational support to help deliver against the business priorities and aligned to the wider HR Strategy. The HRBP builds effective and proactive working relationships across all US operations and functions, responding with agility to meet the demands of a business in growth.

With a generalist HR remit, the HRBP will deliver efficient and effective operational HR support, whilst proactively seeking opportunities to improve the HR service to the business.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the first point of contact for all HR related requests and queries in the US businesses

  • To provide advice, guidance, and support to promote the application of strong people practices and adherence to company HR policies and across the business.

  • Work collaboratively with stakeholders to understand the business challenges and priorities and take affirmative steps in support of these.

  • To work closely with the Talent Acquisition in support of the company’s growth ambitions, including interviewing, recruitment and managing company on-boarding.

  • To work with the Human Resources Director to develop and maintain the company’s HR policies and practices ensuring they are compliant with employment legislation across US operating jurisdictions.

  • Support with the development and implementation of an effective employee engagement and wellbeing strategy.

  • To contribute to the continuing development and implementation of an effective Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion strategy.

  • To project support on strategic HR projects as required, e.g., reward, learning and development, talent management.

  • To adopt a mindset of continuous improvement to optimise the performance of the HR function to the business as it continues the journey of rapid growth.

  • Support managers in resource management, talent management and succession planning 

Experience

  • Strong all round HR Generalist experience gained within a fast-paced, commercial environment.

  • Sound working knowledge of US employment legislation and HR best practise.

  • Experience of working within an international business is advantageous.

  • Good experience in the support of Talent Acquisition, including management of new starter and onboarding processes.

  • Strong HR advisory skills

  • Commercial acumen

  • Reliable with excellent attention to detail

  • Very well organised, and able to thrive in a fast paced, agile, changing working environment.

  • Enjoys performing a hands-on role, but with the ability to think big picture.

  • Strong communication, influencing and relationship building skills.

  • A proactive approach and a mindset toward continuous improvement

Department:              Price Reporting – Protein

Responsible to:         Chief Market Reporting Officer, Protein

Location:                      UK/Europe/Hybrid

Primary Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Market Price Reporter to join our team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company, a familiarity with red meat markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global team to shape our market and price coverage within the Oceana to Asia trading corridor.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand our position as the leading food-commodity PRA.

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the beef markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis

  • Manage and grow a diverse beef contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities:

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.

  • Participate in webinars, videos & podcasts on the beef markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.

  • Possess In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the beef commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for the company.

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.

  • Ensure that the company passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting our price reporting and editorial standards

  • Build your reputation by sharing key parts of your coverage on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis

 Required Qualifications

 Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks

 Education

  • Educated to degree level

 Language

  • Business-level English is a must

  • Business-level Mandarin, Japanese or Korean would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the beef industry.

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and beef value chains.

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size.

 Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers, Ranchers)

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for beef coverage in the Oceana to Asia trading corridor

  • You will report to the Chief Market Reporting Officer for Protein

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. We will not tolerate harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classifications. The Company aims to harness these differences to create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are being fully utilized, and in which organizational goals are met. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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Location:                      UK/Europe/Hybrid

Primary Purpose:

The analyst will contribute to our analysis of European and global markets for agricultural commodities as part of the wider Stratégie grains team.

The Role:

  • Forecasting meat and milk production, animal numbers, and industrial compound feed production at the world level. The analyst will use Tallage’s existing forecasting and data management tools, as well as collecting data from contacts on the ground and in companies, from official bodies, press agencies, via the internet, in seminars and using bibliographical research.

  • Forecasting feedstock animal consumption (including cereals and meal) by implementing existing tools (linear programs for optimizing animal rations); contribute to the improvement of these tools and to the development of new models. 

  • Participating in writing our monthly Stratégie grains EU and World Grain Reports, and contributing to the news updates on our website www.strategie-grains.com 

  • Participating in the specific missions and studies we undertake for our clients

  • Participating in writing articles on grain and oilseed markets 


The Profile:

With training as an agronomist or agricultural engineer, you will preferably have 3 to 5 years’ experience in market analysis or in the agricultural or agro-industrial sectors.

The role requires 

  • good writing skills 

  • strong interpersonal skills (especially on the telephone when seeking information or speaking with clients), 

  • a natural curiosity, strong analytical skills, a rigorous approach, 

  • adaptability to move from a topic to another

  • an interest in using IT tools

  • fluent (spoken and written) in French and English


The role offers career development within our team, and in the Mintec group.

We are offering a permanent contract (CDI) with management level status (statut cadre).
We offer the possibility of working from home.


Work localized in one of our European offices:

  • Tallage, 77250 Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne, France

  • FeedInfo, 31670 Labège, France

  • Mintec, Bourne-End, UK

  • Agribriefing, Londres, UK


Start date: as soon as possible

Salary: 45,000-50,000 € per year+bonus scheme+30 days off (RTT) on top of annual leave.

Please send your CV and a letter of application to Benoit Fayaud:

Location:                      UK/Europe/Hybrid

Primary Purpose:

The analyst will contribute to our analysis of European and global markets for agricultural commodities as part of the wider Stratégie grains team.

The Role:

  • Producing production, demand and trade forecasts for sunflower and sunflower oil, at European and world levels. The analyst will use Tallage’s existing forecasting and data management tools, as well as collecting data from contacts on the ground and in companies, from official bodies, press agencies, via the internet, in seminars and using bibliographical research 

  • Participating in writing our monthly Stratégie grains EU and World Grain Reports, and contributing to the news updates on our website www.strategie-grains.com 

  • Participating in the specific missions and studies we undertake for our clients

  • Writing articles on oilseed markets


The Profile:

With training as an agronomist or agricultural engineer, you will preferably have 3 to 5 years’ experience in market analysis or in the agricultural or agro-industrial sectors.

The role requires 

  • good writing skills 

  • strong interpersonal skills (especially on the telephone when seeking information or speaking with clients), 

  • a natural curiosity, strong analytical skills, a rigorous approach, 

  • adaptability to move from a topic to another

  • an interest in using IT tools

  • fluent (spoken and written) in French and English


The role offers career development within our team, and in the Mintec group.

We are offering a permanent contract (CDI) with management level status (statut cadre).
We offer the possibility of working from home.


Work localized in one of our European offices:

  • Tallage, 77250 Moret-Loing-et-Orvanne, France

  • FeedInfo, 31670 Labège, France

  • Mintec, Bourne-End, UK

  • Agribriefing, Londres, UK


Start date: as soon as possible

Salary: 45,000-50,000 € per year+bonus scheme+30 days off (RTT) on top of annual leave.

Please send your CV and a letter of application to Hémeline Macret:

Location:                      UK/Europe/Hybrid

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a news researcher/reporter to join its expanding European Editorial Team within the Mintec Commodity Insight Team. Delivering premium news, analysis, data, pricing, insight and more, this role is a chance to join a team which places users at the centre of everything we do.

We are recruiting a news researcher/writer to initially work on our animal nutrition industry news service, Feedinfo. The platform is a subscription news and information service, with deeply engaged global audiences who appreciate the depth and range of content we provide. The role will likely evolve beyond the animal nutrition sector to cover the wider animal protein markets.

Are you someone with journalism experience and research/information monitoring background who would enjoy finding the latest global news and ensuring your audience knows about it? Do you want to work as part of a close-knit team, breaking key business stories for a technically focused audience? This is an English-writing, English-speaking role. However, a good command of the Mandarin, both written and spoken, is also required.

  • As a researcher you will be responsible for updating the website with relevant news content, producing our daily emails for Feedinfo, as well as taking a key role in monitoring current information sources, researching future content, and optimising data/statistics.

  • As a writer, you will write short news, in-depth analysis articles on sector trends, as well as full feature interviews.

You will be highly organised, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to ensure our subscribers gain maximum value from our products. Our editorial team has a reputation for producing high quality content which our readers depend upon, whether pricing reports, market moving news or in-depth analysis. You will be keen to work as part of the team, and able to put your resourcefulness to work.

The role may require occasional travelling, notably to our offices in London/Toulouse, France.

Salary: DOE.

39 hours per week

If you would like to apply for the role, please send an English covering letter (in which you may state your salary expectations) and your CV (English version) to Simon Duke, Editor-in-Chief, Feedinfo - simon.duke@feedinfo.com. Please use ‘News Researcher & Writer (Mandarin language Essential)  – UK and Europe’ in the email’s title field. Applications close on 18 August 2023.

Job description: News Researcher/Writer, Feedinfo

Based: Labège (Toulouse) office

Reports to: Feedinfo editor-in-chief, but with responsibility for collaborating and working with all team members who are based in a number of locations.

Job outline:

  • Selects, verifies and uses relevant information and data from other sources; responds effectively to breaking news; chooses and prioritises content for newsletters.

  • Writes short news stories as well as analysis articles and full feature interviews.

  • Occasional involvement with video and audio content.

  • The position also requires the production of data-based articles, and the tracking of data points for internal purposes.

Job description/tasks:

  • Uses multiple online information sources to find articles/items of interest to subscribers. Checks these information sources at regular intervals throughout the day to ensure we are covering breaking news as well as highlighting longer-term trends or issues.

  • Brings key news stories or issues to the attention of the wider team to enable them to be covered in greater depth where appropriate.

  • Oversees publication of articles and their inclusion into daily newsletters, making sure deadlines are met and content delivered to user requirements.

  • Considers how mainstream/niche content could be tailored to add value for readers.

  • Identifies and plans content with editors, as well as writing and editing news stories and project work.

  • Works on news leads, contacting companies to obtain comment/reaction. Will ensure continuity in our coverage of the Chinese market.

  • Helps with online conferences, transcripts and webcast coverage.

  • Cultivates industry sources and network of contacts.

  • Deputises for editorial team members in their absence.

  • Occasional travelling to industry events.

  • This list is not exhaustive and may be updated at any time as requirements change

Knowledge/skills/aptitudes required:

  • Experience in researching information, data and news, writing and/or editing newsletters and/or websites, particularly for a technically focused audience.

  • Good command of the English language, both written and spoken.

  • Good command of the Mandarin.

  • A sharp eye for detail while dealing with multiple information sources. Ability to spot news/trends/issues which will impact readers’ businesses, or which may require further research.

  • Enthusiasm for seeking out, editing and delivering the best content for readers/users via daily newsletters and websites.

  • Ability to write and edit content, and to build contacts within the industry.

  • Be comfortable with videocalls.

  • Able to work to tight daily deadlines.

  • Ability to build close relationships across a geographically diverse team, ensuring good visibility of upcoming articles and events and that they are treated appropriately.

  • Appreciation of the key interests/drivers for our subscribers.

  • Able to deal with technology and various IT packages and to adopt and adapt to new technology. Good command of Microsoft Excel and data entry.

  • The successful applicant will be enthusiastic, passionate, resourceful, self-motivated and a team player.

 

Department:              Client Success

Responsible to:          Client Success Manager

Location:                           UK/Europe/Hybrid

Primary Purpose:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Client Success Executive to join its expanding team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as data provider to many of the world’s top food manufacturers and retailers. These companies rely on our extensive pricing data to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability.

Mintec is poised for rapid growth serving this huge and burgeoning global market and is seeking an energetic and well organised Client Success Executive to assist clients and their users with onboarding, training and best practice use of the Mintec platform to ensure full understanding of the service and its value. The role requires speaking to clients every day between the first contract signature to contract re-negotiation. You would be the point person for all their needs, ensuring they have a great experience while working with us to ensure Mintec becomes their trusted partner. The key objective is to ensure maximum client retention. The role works closely with the sales and marketing teams and would also help identify new opportunities within the client organisations which the sales team would follow-up on. 

Key Accountabilities:

  • Maximise the ROI that clients receive from their investment in the Mintec service

  • Aid the ultimate success of clients, including client onboarding, success and retention

  • Proactively accomplish each client’s business needs – actively seek opportunities to deepen relationships and help clients’ businesses

  • Understand client business goals and key performance indicators; possess the ability to translate insights into client successes

  • Conduct ongoing meetings to communicate best practices, successes and business results

  • Keep organized, detailed notes of accounts in order to communicate status updates and feedback to management teams

  • Support clients on a day to day basis to help resolve system issues and answer client questions

  • Work closely with the sales team to identify further opportunities within the client base

Key Working Relationships:

Internal

  • Client Success Manager

  • Sales Director, Key Account Managers, Business Development Managers 

  • Intelligence and Data teams

  • Product development team

External

  • Clients

  • As required by the role

Core Competency Levels:

  • Planning and Delivery

  • Analysis and Information Use

  • Decision Making

  • Working with Others

  • Communication

  • Influencing

  • Organisational Awareness

  • Managing Change

  • Continual Improvement

  • Client Focus

Department:          Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

Reports To:           EMEA Head of Commodity Insights

Location:               UK/Europe/Hybrid

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking a Research Associate on a fixed-term basis (12-15 months) to support the Commodities Insight Team. The associate will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team to meet the team’s objectives

Key Accountabilities:

  • Demonstratable experience in research and qualitative and quantitative analysis of data

  • Writing skills of a high standard

  • Excellent attention to detail

  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues in a clear, concise, and coherent manner

Accountabilities:

  • Supporting analysts with data collection, analysis, market research and report writing

  • Support the editorial team with report uploads, fact-checking and making sure all publications meet the agreed standards

  • Primary research - make phone calls to gather market insights 

Required Qualifications

 Job Requirements

  • Inquisitive – able to ask the right questions and make enquiry about datasets

  • Ability to pay attention to detail

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level

 Language

  • Business-level English is a must

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working with data and Microsoft Office, in particular Excel, and the ability to learn new applications

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

 Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • Support all analysts within the Commodity Insights Team

  • You will report to the EMEA Head of Commodity Insights

 


Purpose of the role

Mintec is a high growth food commodity data business going through a period of high organic and inorganic growth. The business now needs to hire its first internal General Counsel to oversee this period of growth and to provide swift delivery and execution on its goals.

The General Counsel will be the company's main lawyer and primary source of legal advice. The GC will report directly to the CFO/COO and other key stakeholders will be the CEO, CRO and others on the senior leadership team. The role will build a capability to service Mintec’s international needs, covering key markets in the UK, the USA and in France determining the right approach between internal responsiveness and cost. The business has a bias to action and execution, and the role-holder will need to be comfortable with servicing a dynamic organisation on multiple fronts.

Responsibilities

General Counsel is responsible for ensuring that a company complies with laws and regulations while carrying out its business and operations. Their duties will include managing risk on commercial contracts, bringing in tools and processes to manage risk and simplify execution, and managing all aspect of the group’s legal compliance, including matters arising in employment, property, with supplers and dispute resolution. The role-holder will need to be comfortable overseeing a colleague in the US – who they will hire – to be focussed on supporting the expanding US commercial team. Other areas of responsibility will include:

  • Presenting legal advice to company Directors, Board Members and other members of the senior leadership team.
  • Supporting the business across all departments (including Sales, Marketing and Technology) in its day-to-day business.
  • Managing the IP portfolio. Constantly ensuring that intellectual property rights are fully protected and promoted.
  • Working on all necessary consents, licences and agreements in the promotion and subscriptions of existing and new global (i) products as well as (ii) partnerships.
  • Support the business in its M&A and post-acquisition integration activity.
  • Assisting the company to move into new markets in countries successfully with alternative jurisdictional laws and regulations.
  • Setting internal governance policies and manage the impact of external factors. Dealing with external parties (regulators, external counsel, clients).
  • Keeping the company informed and up to date on new laws and regulations that might be applicable to the business.
  • Negotiation in a robust but commercially astute manner with a “can do” attitude.

Experience

  • Qualified and experienced individual with proven General Counselling experience in a similar business environment (SaaS and FinTech / Commodities experience).
  • Ability to independently develop legal strategy and objectives.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a passion for working as part of a team.
  • Detailed knowledge of the specific laws and regulations that apply data businesses.
  • Sound knowledge of local law within the United Kingdom and laws within the European Union and other parts of the world including Data Protection, Competition and Intellectual Property related laws and regulations which can be applied with a creative and commercial outlook.
  • Appreciation of the legal environment in the United States.
  • Awareness of market forces, politics and economics and their relation to changing laws and regulations.
  • Ability to convey complex legal information in an understandable format, creating associations of trust and respect with key stakeholders.
  • Ability to provide Senior Management with legal recommendations demonstrating critical decision-making using ethics, gravitas, and integrity.

Role Title:  Senior .Net Developer

Reports to: VP Engineering

Locations: UK

Introduction to Mintec

Mintec is the world’s leading independent provider of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG and capital goods supply chains. Mintec sells its data and intelligence to customers via a range of cloud based SaaS products, and directly via APIs and Data Feeds.

 

Purpose of the Role

 

Mintec is in search of an advanced Senior .NET Software Engineer to be a part of our progressive team. You'll be entrusted with designing, developing, and implementing top-tier .NET solutions to address our evolving business needs.

 

Key Accountabilities

  • Design, code, test, and manage .NET applications and software solutions.
  • Troubleshoot software-related issues, debug complex issues, and manage bug resolution.
  • Continuously improve application performance, code quality, and application resilience.
  • Take part in all stages of the software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, code reviews, and deployment.
  • Work closely with product teams to understand end-user requirements, and translate them into reliable, efficient technical solutions.
  • Implement .NET coding best practices and ensure high standards of code quality.
  • Keep up-to-date with the latest advancements in .NET technologies and software development trends.

Essential Technical Skills

  • Advanced proficiency in C# and .NET framework; extensive experience with .NET Core and .NET 5/6/7.
  • Deep understanding of ASP.NET MVC, ASP.NET Web API, .NET Core, Entity Framework Core.
  • Proficiency in front-end development technologies, such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, as well as modern frameworks like Angular or React.
  • Practical experience with cloud platforms, specifically Microsoft Azure, including Azure DevOps, Azure Functions, and Azure Service Bus.
  • Experience with SQL Server, database design principles, and exposure to NoSQL databases.
  • Experience with Microservices Architecture and container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Proven ability to work in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. An advanced degree or relevant industry certifications are a plus.

Essential personal attributes:

  • Analytical Thinking: Solid ability to deconstruct complex problems into manageable parts and efficiently solve them using a data-driven approach. Strong problem-solving skills and resilience under pressure.
  • Clear Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of collaborating effectively with team members and stakeholders and explaining technical concepts in a user-friendly way.
  • Collaborative Team Player: Exhibits strong interpersonal skills and the ability to contribute positively to a team, respecting and understanding the roles of all team members.
  • Attention to Detail: Consistently ensures accuracy and pays careful attention to all aspects of projects or tasks.
  • Effective Time Management: Ability to handle multiple tasks or projects at once, prioritizing effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Commitment to Learning: Eager to stay updated with the latest developments in .NET technologies and broader tech trends, continually seeking to expand skill set.
  • Innovative Thinking: Ability to leverage creativity to find innovative solutions or approaches to tasks or problems, particularly in developing new features or improving existing ones.
  • Resilience and Flexibility: Capable of staying focused in the face of challenges or changes, quickly adapting to new situations or requirements.
  • Customer Focus: Understands and prioritizes the needs of the end-user or client, ensuring that all development work enhances the user experience and meets customer needs.

Role Title:  DevOps Engineer

Reports to: Head of DevOps

Locations: UK

Introduction to Mintec

Mintec is the world’s leading independent provider of global commodity price data, price forecasts & market intelligence for the food, CPG and capital goods supply chains. Mintec sells its data and intelligence to customers via a range of cloud based SaaS products, and directly via APIs and Data Feeds.

 

Purpose of the Role

 

Mintec has recently gone through a series of acquisitions, and as part of this are rebuilding many of their customer facing Propositions. This includes consolidating a number of disparate data silos across the organisation into a Unified Data Platform based on Databricks, and building new Product and Data solutions for customers.

 

As part of this, Mintec are engaging some 3rd party suppliers to build some of the components, and are engaging suppliers that are leveraging fully automated deployment processes, employing infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD at the beginning of projects, to ensure platforms and products can be deployed at speed.

 

Mintec is now looking for a DevOps engineer, whose role would involve developing deployment processes and tools to ensure accurate and efficient releases of new product features, and the management of product uptime, performance, and reliability.

 

The successful candidate will join a team of engineers responsible for maintaining current and future technical platforms – conduct fault diagnosis and remediation activities as well as ensure and maintain the security of platforms across the Mintec technical estate.

 

Key Accountabilities 

  • Release engineering: Build, test and maintain infrastructure and tools so that software can be developed and automatically released. Selecting, provisioning, and maintaining CI/CD tooling, developing and maintaining bespoke build/deploy scripts and automated test suites

  • Infrastructure provisioning/system administration: deploying and maintaining the servers, storage, and networking resources required to host applications. Provisioning and managing virtual instances of the servers, storage devices, switches, and virtualization software

  • Security enforcement: Help to fully integrate security and compliance into their planning and development processes to ensure software is designed with security in mind. Work to ensure that systems are safe and secure against cybersecurity threats using frameworks such as SonarQube and Veracode.

  • Governance and guidance for 3rd party suppliers: that are building solutions for Mintec. Oversee and consult on DevOps automation of any code or infrastructure being delivered

  • Agile Transformation: Work with Architecture team function to help move the organisation along an Agile transformation journey with fully automated QA, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code and helping drive the move to a fully automated testing culture

  • DevOps advocacy/evangelism; With some of the Mintec organisation still not migrated to a DevOps culture, the DevOps engineer must help evangelize and educate the DevOps way of working across the organization. This could include educating and mentoring engineering team members on Azure services and SRE/DevOps best practices

  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE): This would include

    • Monitoring: measure system health and reliability to improve & support business process requirements

    • Incident Management: Perform deep-dive analysis for all major incidents, coordinating with support and Infrastructure teams to identify root cause in both application and infrastructure

    • Own and drive improvement on Mean-Time-To-Repair and Mean-Time-Between-Incidents uptime

    • Continuous improvement: Design, write and deliver software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Mintec’s product

    • Maintain a programme of regular patching of systems to ensure all have latest security updates

  • Cloud Cost Management: Ensure cloud-based infrastructure is secure and efficient, constantly looking for opportunities to reduce costs as services and usage grow 

Essential Technical Skills

  • DevOps toolset: understand and be able to use, a variety of tools such as Git, Jira, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Azure DevOps services

  • Configuration management toolset: experience with one or more configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, or Ansible to deploying new code or applying security patches to systems already running

  • Automating infrastructure tasks: Understand Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Have experience with the managing and provisioning of system infrastructure in the Cloud through code instead of through manual processes, ideally using Terraform.

  • Containers and container orchestration: understand the benefits of containers and some of the challenges. Understand when and how to use container orchestrators.

  • Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD): be proficient at automating the process of building, testing, and deploying software, using modern CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Azure CI/CD pipelines

  • System architecture and provisioning: able to design, provision, and manage computer ecosystems, whether on-premise or in the cloud.

  • Security: Understanding of and appreciation for cyber security. Experience with SonarQube and/or Veracode would be beneficial. Familiarity with any of the well-known DevSecOps frameworks

  • Familiarity with Programming Languages: Experience of multiple programming languages such as C# .Net, Python, Javascript and React

  • Coding and scripting: Experience writing automation scripts using Python, Javascript

  • Azure Cloud Infrastructure: extensive experience with Microsoft Azure products and services, specifically data service offerings such as Azure SQL DB, Blob Storage, Azure DataBricks, Azure Data Lakes, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI

  • Agile Frameworks: familiarity with a variety of Agile delivery frameworks e.g. Scrum and Kanban. Understand advanced software development practices and how to implement Agile development practices such as code reviews and using source control

  • Networking: Experience of networking components and systems, including webservers, firewalls and network routing

  • Architecture: Familiarity of architectural design patterns for micro-services leveraging relational and big data technologies

  • Monitoring and Measurement: Understand the importance of using metrics to influence product and technical decisions. Understanding of observability principles, and how tools can be used to capture and display metrics (Prometheus, Grafana etc)

  • Performance and Availability: familiarity with performance tuning of the infrastructure and applications for high availability and scalability. Experience of designing with resilience in mind, making use of modern cloud architectures and techniques (regions etc) to provide disaster recovery 

Essential personal attributes:

  • Communication and collaboration: the DevOps engineer must be able to communicate and collaborate effectively with teams, managers, and customers. Cross-team collaborationis a fundamental component in a multi-squad environment at Mintec, and the DevOps engineer should work across the organization as coach, facilitator. Able to foster and develop relationships with partners in the business at all levels

  • Problem-solving and decision-making skills: Skilled at structured problem solving, not intimidated by large and complex problems, but able to analyse, break them down and solve piece by piece, while keeping sight of the overall ‘big picture’. Able to make effective decisions within fast-moving delivery environment

  • Positive mindset with a can-do attitude: focused on collaboration and shared goals. Passionate about getting things done and able to engage people across the business to complete goals and quickly drive value. Strong sense of ownership and drive

  • Excellent conceptual, verbal, and written communication skills: including the ability to simply and clearly communicate technical design in conversation, documentation and presentations to a non-technical audience

Role Title:  DevOps Engineer

Locations: UK

Purpose:

To ensure the smooth running of the Mintec Global & Agribriefing offices and support the wider business in daily operations and functions; whilst being a key point of contact for teams, contractors, and customers.

Responsibilities:

  • Opening and closing up of the office as a key holder and ensure internal staff are updated regarding keyholding.
  • Management of office travel (both domestic and international) including visas when needed.
  • Management of office health and safety and suppliers such as cleaners, ad hoc caterers, maintenance to ensure the office and facilities are maintained.
  • Managing the fire alarm systems
  • Working alongside internal teams to answer phone and email enquiries.
  • Event management for the office from corporate lunches through to summer parties and socials
  • Assisting IT and HR with setting up and onboarding new members of staff or exiting leavers, including note taking at HR meetings when required
  • Diary and meeting room management for the Human Resources Director and wider team meetings
  • Managing mail, invoices & POs, credit card allocation as well as other administrative and reception duties
  • Managing the office supplies and organisation of mail, deliveries and housekeeping.

Experience

  • Holding an office management position in a similar sized business and ideally multiple sites.
  • Travel booking and office administration management.
  • Managing 3rd party suppliers and contractors i.e., cleaning / maintenance / health and safety
  • Diary management
  • Basic reception duties

Personal Skills

  • Being proactive and organised
  • Attention to detail.
  • Excellent time management
  • Flexible and adaptable

Purpose of the role

The successful candidate will be responsible for covering Mintec’s South American feed additive price reports and building news coverage of the region. This will involve developing relationships with industry contacts, assessing a range of prices to IOSCO standards, and writing both real-time and in-depth news articles about the animal nutrition markets in Central and South America.

Accountabilities

  • Responsible for expanding Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) by growing industry contacts in the feed additive sector who submit pricing data.

  • Develop in-depth knowledge of market fundamentals, supply chains, and key feed additive market participants to grow internal knowledge; report back on industry trends.

  • Accountable for transactional pricing data, bids, offers, tenders and any other relevant information to assess prices in line with the methodology, price specifications, and IOSCO-compliant principles.

  • Responsible for producing twice-weekly price reports and meeting internal deadlines.

  • Responsible for identifying and planning content, writing and editing news, insight articles, and interviews. Manage queries from contacts and the market, whilst ensuring processes and judgement are transparent to the market. Respond to breaking news where appropriate.

  • Ensure key news stories or issues are brought to the attention of the wider team to enable them to be covered in greater depth where appropriate.

Experience

  • Experience of working for an established PRA, protein, or agricultural commodity company is desirable.

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and value chains. how will you measure? Interview/work experience This is not relevant.

  • Strong analytical and numeracy skills, with attention for detail, adept at using MS Excel and performing various types of data analysis.

  • Demonstrable experience of presenting complex topics, participation in podcasts, presentations, events, and industry meetings.

  • Good command of the English and Portuguese languages, both written and spoken. Spanish would be advantageous.

  • Ability to travel globally, specifically the US Americas.

Role Title: Senior HR Advisor

Function: Human Resources/People Team

Reports to: HRBP (initially HR Director)

Location: UK – hybrid with offices in London and Bourne End

Purpose of Role:

The Senior HR Advisor role provides first line support to line managers and colleagues. Supporting the global People team and focusing on delivering an outstanding service, the role plays a critical part in ensuring all HR administration is managed in an accurate and timely manner.

Indicative Role Dimensions:

  • Budgetary: Minimal – colleague social functions, SWAG for new joiners etc.

  • People Management - Number of direct reports - 0

  • Key Relationships

    • HR team globally

    • All colleagues within the area of responsibility

    • Line Managers

    • External relationship management – vendors, suppliers, payroll, government/agencies

Primary Responsibilities: 

Supporting recruitment activities:

  • Arranging, and attending, interviews, issuing offer letters, contracts of employment, ensuring right to work documentation is in place, background checks and screening.

Induction and onboarding:

  • Supporting managers, and the HR team, when onboarding new colleagues and organising company induction programmes and swag.

  • First line support:

    • Act as the 1st point of contact for HR queries, from managers and colleagues, and escalate as appropriate.

    Policy advice:

    • Manage maternity, paternity leave and probation for colleagues as well as advising managers and colleagues on policy and process. Ensure that policies are amended in line with any changing legislation.

    Systems and reporting:

    • Responsible for ensuring the HRIS is accurate, up to date and instigate further automation where appropriate. Produce, validate and ensure the accuracy of any reports required liaising with the finance team and payroll accordingly.

    Administration and documentation:

    • Ensure that all staff changes are recorded, issue change letters, respond to tenancy and employment reference requests and any other ad hoc queries.

Occasional Responsibilities:

    • Assist and support in HR related projects as required.

    • Help with the organising of team events and employee wellbeing initiatives.

    • Act as 1st line support for other jurisdictions where there is no in-country HR team.

    • Opportunity to get involved in projects.

    • Other ad hoc tasks as required.

Knowledge/Expertise/Qualifications:

Essential

  • Solid background in HR administration issuing contracts of employment and other documentation

  • Deep technical knowledge of HR systems applied in the support of operational activity

  • Knowledge of current legislation relating to work eligibility requirements

  • A varied range of skills and strengths from:

    • time management, planning, administration and record keeping to

    • people-focussed skills such as customer service, communication, relationship building and creativity

  • Comfortable working with MS Office applications

  • Ability to balance competing priorities to ensure that tasks and outcomes are delivered

  • Organisational skills and a tenacious personality to get things done and suggest process changes to improve ways of working

  • Ability to keep up in a fast paced, dynamic global environment

  • Self-motivated, pro-active and able to work on own initiative without close supervision

  • Good sense of humour, friendly, fun and a great team player

Desired

  • Experience of setting up or running a HR admin function

  • Experience in European and US environments would be advantageous

  • Ability to distinguish and adapt style to handle different teams/individuals

  • Some experience of managing 3rd party suppliers

  • Experience of leading on employee wellbeing activities

  • HR qualification is also desirable

Introduction: Mintec

Mintec is the global leader in commodities intelligence data: it provides global commodity price data, price forecasts, and market intelligence for the food and consumer packaged goods (CPG), supply chains. 

Mintec acquired the Agribriefing group in January 2023, and the group now includes five distinct brands. The Mintec Group plans to join these 5 leading food commodities intelligence brands under one brand and product in the coming years. As part of this business strategy, Mintec intends to build Mintec 2.0 (working title), an integrated user experience through which the diverse end users across industries and geographies can leverage all the data, insight and functionality that currently exists across the product portfolio, in their day-to-day work via a single unified experience. 

How Mintec solves customer problems:

  • To achieve Mintec 2.0 we are creating 4 cross functional sqauds, made up of vendors and Mintec employees and contractors. Each squad will broadly include a product manager, product designer and software developers. Our User Researchers and Analysts are shared across the teams.
  • If we have two teams working in the same domain, you might be the Product Designer across both teams designing the e2e customer journey.  
  • Teams are assigned one or two strategically important problems to solve and a KPI to meet. After that it's over to the team to conduct discovery to identify how best to solve the problem and meet the KPI.
  • Collaboration is key - we work side by side with the business to deliver products to market.
  • We stay ruthlessly focused on solving the biggest customer problems and delivering iterative solutions that add value
  • We're working to be agile
  • We usually use Scrum to deliver

Your role:

Mintec has a hugely varied customer base that spans multiple sectors and global regions with wide ranging user types often within individual customer organisations. You will need to be comfortable designing for a wide variety of different cultures and user types. You will identify UI/UX solutions that address the challenges of these audiences.

You will: 

  • Embed with a cross functional team and build a strong understanding of what customer problem the team is working to solve
  • Work with the business and technology to define UI/UX approaches to customer problems with a fail fast mentality
  • Be heavily involved in all customer interactions so you can discover their problems to solve
  • Test possible solutions using a variety of different methods
  • Translate viable solutions into designs used by the developers
  • Design using our design system and apply company branding
  • Elevate the practice of product design within Mintec and help evangelise it’s importance.

Requirements:

You should have:

  • Experience 5 years+ UX/UI/CX in an enterprise environment
  • Extensive and demonstrable UI and UX experience on medium to large sized Global web platform projects in an Agile environment.
  • Demonstrable experience and ability to rapidly drill into the real problems, customer needs and working practices that need to be addressed by the platform
  • Demonstrable ability to rapidly understand the “big picture” and programme objectives
  • Demonstrable experience of working autonomously; being delivery focused, a self-starter and finisher.
  • Facilitate customer interviews, prototype usability test, etc with agnostic thought-provoking approach
  • Demonstrable ability to advocate for the customer, their challenges and experience
  • Experience of material UI and other 3rd party libraries, and leveraging these tools to develop wireframes
  • Experience working in a highly collaborative, fast paced, team environment
  • Pragmatic, flexible approach.
  • Demonstrate experience to architect journeys, to meet customer needs & requirements
  • Demonstrable knowledge of Figma and UserTesting.com (or similar)

Purpose of the role 

The Talent Acquisition Manager is responsible for the end-to-end talent acquisition and recruitment cycle. They will be responsible for managing the candidate experience, ensuring it represents the businesses brand values and behaviours, partnering all of our managers to deliver an exceptional candidate experience and working on specific projects related to Talent Acquisition i.e., Employer branding. This role includes hiring for all our teams in the UK, France, Denmark & US. This role will have a great mixture of operational work alongside some interesting projects.

Key accountabilities

 Talent Acquisition

  • Proactively partnering Hiring Managers to understand their recruitment needs, supporting them with writing good quality job descriptions and identifying skills gaps within their teams
  • Owning the full recruitment cycle from sourcing, selecting, through to interviewing and offering candidates
  • Creating engaging job adverts for new and replacement roles within the business
  • Seeking out talent through direct channels and managing LinkedIn accounts, ATS and other job sites
  • Managing pipelines of candidates, completing first stage screening interviews and presenting shortlists to hiring managers
  • Ensuring timely communication and feedback to candidates and managing hiring managers expectations
  • Proactively building candidate pipelines for forecast hires and managing our Talent Pool
  • Managing relationships with external partners where required
  • Creating and presenting reports and dashboards for Human Resources Director and SLT
  • Benchmarking new roles ahead of going to market 

Talent Projects 

The role will involve setting up and embedding new processes and systems to support best practice talent acquisition across the business, some of the projects you’ll be owning will include: 

  • Reviewing our current interview process and creating appropriate frameworks ensuring good quality feedback
  • Creating interview guides and training managers in best practise interview skills
  • Working with the Human Resources Director to develop the EVP, employer brand, and perception in the marketplace to ensure the company becomes an Employer of Choice.
  • Creating a structured programme for Talent Management alongside the Human Resources Director
  • Building a strong and insightful Diversity & Inclusion programme with constant review.

Experience

  • At least 5 years’ experience in an international business, recruiting for roles across core functions: Marketing, Sales, Finance, Analytics, ideally within the commodities industry.
  • Prior experience recruiting in the UK, Europe & US would be highly beneficial.
  • Experience sourcing/hunting for candidates across different channels
  • Used to working in entrepreneurial start up environments with shifting priorities.
  • Experience in creating and building an inclusive Talent Acquisition function.

Skills

  • Highly organised, comfortable working at pace and able to adapt to changing priorities.
  • Skilled at building relationships and rapport quickly
  • Sharp attention to detail, with exceptional communication skills
  • Experience managing stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to close candidates at offer stage.
  • Good technical skills, an understanding of how to manage systems.

Purpose of the role 

The Talent Acquisition Manager is responsible for the end-to-end talent acquisition and recruitment cycle. They will be responsible for managing the candidate experience, ensuring it represents the businesses brand values and behaviours, partnering all of our managers to deliver an exceptional candidate experience and working on specific projects related to Talent Acquisition i.e., Employer branding. This role includes hiring for all our teams in the US. This role will have a great mixture of operational work alongside some interesting projects.

Key accountabilities 

Talent Acquisition

  • Proactively partnering Hiring Managers to understand their recruitment needs, supporting them with writing good quality job descriptions and identifying skills gaps within their teams
  • Owning the full recruitment cycle from sourcing, selecting, through to interviewing and offering candidates
  • Creating engaging job adverts for new and replacement roles within the business
  • Seeking out talent through direct channels and managing LinkedIn accounts, ATS and other job sites
  • Managing pipelines of candidates, completing first stage screening interviews and presenting shortlists to hiring managers
  • Ensuring timely communication and feedback to candidates and managing hiring managers expectations
  • Proactively building candidate pipelines for forecast hires and managing our Talent Pool
  • Managing relationships with external partners where required
  • Creating and presenting reports and dashboards for Human Resources Director and SLT
  • Benchmarking new roles ahead of going to market 

Talent Projects 

The role will involve setting up and embedding new processes and systems to support best practice talent acquisition across the business, some of the projects you’ll be owning will include: 

  • Reviewing our current interview process and creating appropriate frameworks ensuring good quality feedback
  • Creating interview guides and training managers in best practise interview skills
  • Working with the Human Resources Director to develop the EVP, employer brand, and perception in the marketplace to ensure the company becomes an Employer of Choice.
  • Creating a structured programme for Talent Management alongside the Human Resources Director
  • Building a strong and insightful Diversity & Inclusion programme with constant review.

Experience

  • At least 5 years’ experience in an international business, recruiting for roles across core functions: Marketing, Sales, Finance, Analytics, ideally within the commodities industry.
  • Prior experience recruiting in the US is essential and within this space ideal.
  • Experience sourcing/hunting for candidates across different channels
  • Used to working in entrepreneurial start up environments with shifting priorities.
  • Experience in creating and building an inclusive Talent Acquisition function.

Skills

  • Highly organised, comfortable working at pace and able to adapt to changing priorities.
  • Skilled at building relationships and rapport quickly
  • Sharp attention to detail, with exceptional communication skills
  • Experience managing stakeholders at all levels.
  • Strong influencing skills and ability to close candidates at offer stage.
  • Good technical skills, an understanding of how to manage systems.

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

REPORTS TO: US Director of Commodity Insights

EFFECTIVE DATE: Immediately / August 2023 

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Dairy Analyst to join our Commodity Insights Team. Ideally, you will come from an established Price Reporting Agency (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the dairy markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team.

This position can be remote or based in our office in Toms River, New Jersey.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of dairy companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA.

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the dairy markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis

  • Manage and grow a diverse dairy contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.

  • Host webinars, videos & podcasts on the dairy markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.

  • In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the dairy commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for Mintec.

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.

  • IOSCO accreditation: Ensure that Mintec passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting Mintec’s pricing and editorial standards

  • Build your reputation by sharing your content and analysis on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must

  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus

Experience

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the dairy

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection. 

Knowledge, Skills & Ability

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and dairy value chains.

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers, Farmers)

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for Mintec’s North American dairy coverage

  • You will report to the US Commodity Insights Director

Decision-Making Ability:

  • You will have the ability to shape Mintec’s North American dairy coverage

Physical and Sensory Demands:

  • Frequent phone and computer screen use

Working Environment:

  • Fast-paced and competitive working environment

  • Typical working hours are 9-to-6

  • Can be remote or hybrid

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

REPORTS TO: US Director of Commodity Insights

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Grains & Oilseeds Analyst to join our Commodity Insights Team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the grains and oilseeds markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team to shape Mintec’s North American grains and oilseeds price and market information coverage.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of grains and oilseeds companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA.

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the grains and oilseeds markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis

  • Manage and grow a diverse grains and oilseeds contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.

  • Host webinars, videos and podcasts on the grains and oilseeds markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.

  • In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the grains and oilseeds commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for Mintec.

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.

  • IOSCO accreditation: Ensure that Mintec passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting Mintec’s pricing and editorial standards

  • Build your reputation by sharing your content and analysis on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must

  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the grains and oilseeds industry.

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and grains and oilseeds value chains.

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (brokers, traders, sellers, buyers, farmers, etc.)

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for Mintec’s North American grains and oilseeds coverage

  • You will report to the US Commodity Insights Director

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting – Protein 

REPORTS TO: Chief Market Reporting Officer 

Primary Purpose: 

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious price reporter and team lead for our Market Price Reporters to join our team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the commodity markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. You will have experience managing, developing and coaching other price reporters to ensure their assessments are an accurate reflection of the markets they cover and that reporters are following our proprietary methodologies to provide that coverage.    

Key Accountabilities: 

  • Lead a small team of reporters within a region. Ensuring that coverage is robust and that they are achieving their reporting metrics.  

  • Liase with the company’s PRA Academy to develop your team so that they are motivated, subject matter experts, covering markets according to the organization's standards. 

  • Assist in the recruiting process so that your team is adequately staffed and be responsible for coverage always being accurate and in line with IOSCO standards.  

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand our position as the leading food-commodity PRA. 

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the team’s covered markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis. 

  • Manage and grow a diverse contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments. 

  • Execute on the team’s strategy   

Accountabilities:  

  • Publish new series of proprietary prices to an agreed schedule. 

  • Represent the company by participating in webinars, videos, podcasts and presenting to large groups about markets by you and your team on an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis. 

  • Possess In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for your team’s covered markets to manage their reporting efforts and to become a spokesperson for the company. 

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your and your team’s markets.  

  • Ensure that your team is conducting themselves in an IOSCO compliant manner and that the company passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting our price reporting and editorial standards. 

  • Build your reputation by sharing key parts of your coverage on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

  • Lead a team of price reporters  

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements 

  • Ability to travel when required 

  • Ability to develop, manage and motivate a small team 

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours 

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education 

  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience  

Language 

  • Business-level English is a must 

  • Additional European languages can be beneficial   

Experience, Skills & Abilities 

  • Experience managing or leading, motivating and coaching a small team. 

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities information services or equivalent field 

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection. 

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of value chains in the covered market areas. 

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis. 

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus. 

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

 Nature & Scope 

Contacts  

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers, Ranchers) 

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation  

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders 

Level of Responsibility: 

  • You will be leading a small team of reporters who cover markets in the EMEA region. 

  • You are responsible for coverage of assigned markets and be able to fill in when necessary for people on your team. 

  • You will report to the Chief Market Reporting Officer 

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.  We will not tolerate harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classifications. The Company aims to harness these differences to create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are being fully utilized, and in which organizational goals are met. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

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DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

REPORTS TO: EMEA Head of Commodity Insights

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Industrial Commodities Analyst to join our Commodity Insights Team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the energy, plastics, packaging, glass and chemicals markets and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team to shape Mintec’s EMEA Industrial commodities price and market information coverage.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of industrial and packaging material companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA.

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the industrial and packaging material markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis

  • Manage and grow a diverse industrial and packaging materials contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication, including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of Mintec’s price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.

  • Host webinars, videos & podcasts on the industrial and packaging material markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.

  • In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the industrial and packaging material commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for Mintec.

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.

  • IOSCO accreditation: Ensure that Mintec passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting Mintec’s pricing and editorial standards

  • Build your reputation by sharing your content and analysis on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must

  • Business-level German would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the industrial materials

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and the packaging industry’s value chain.

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers)

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for Mintec’s EMEA industrial coverage

  • You will report to the EMEA Head of Commodity Insights

The Company:

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a news researcher/reporter to join its expanding European Editorial Team within the Mintec Commodity Insight Team. Delivering premium news, analysis, data, pricing, insight and more, this role is a chance to join a team which places users at the centre of everything we do.

We are recruiting a news researcher/writer to initially work on our animal nutrition industry news service, Feedinfo. The platform is a subscription news and information service, with deeply engaged global audiences who appreciate the depth and range of content we provide. The role will likely evolve beyond the animal nutrition sector to cover the wider animal protein markets.

Are you someone with journalism experience and research/information monitoring background who would enjoy finding the latest global news and ensuring your audience knows about it? Do you want to work as part of a close-knit team, breaking key business stories for a technically focused audience? This is an English-writing, English-speaking role. However, a good command of the Mandarin, both written and spoken, is also required.

  • As a researcher you will be responsible for updating the website with relevant news content, producing our daily emails for Feedinfo, as well as taking a key role in monitoring current information sources, researching future content, and optimising data/statistics.
  • As a writer, you will write short news, in-depth analysis articles on sector trends, as well as full feature interviews.

You will be highly organised, with a meticulous eye for detail, and able to ensure our subscribers gain maximum value from our products. Our editorial team has a reputation for producing high quality content which our readers depend upon, whether pricing reports, market moving news or in-depth analysis. You will be keen to work as part of the team, and able to put your resourcefulness to work.

The role may require occasional travelling, notably to our offices in London/Toulouse, France.

Salary: DOE.

39 hours per week

If you would like to apply for the role, please send an English covering letter (in which you may state your salary expectations) and your CV (English version) to Simon Duke, Editor-in-Chief, Feedinfo - simon.duke@feedinfo.com. Please use ‘English/Chinese News Researcher/Writer’ in the email’s title field. Applications close on 18 August 2023.

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting – Protein

REPORTS TO: Chief Market Reporting Officer, Protein 

Primary Purpose:

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Market Price Reporter to join our team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company, a familiarity with red meat markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global team to shape our market and price coverage within the Oceana to Asia trading corridor.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand our position as the leading food-commodity PRA.

  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the beef markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis

  • Manage and grow a diverse beef contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.

  • Participate in webinars, videos & podcasts on the beef markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.

  • Possess In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the beef commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for the company.

  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.

  • Ensure that the company passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting our price reporting and editorial standards

  • Build your reputation by sharing key parts of your coverage on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required

  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours

  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must

  • Business-level Mandarin, Japanese or Korean would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the beef industry.

  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.

  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and beef value chains.

  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.

  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.

  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers, Ranchers)

  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation

  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for beef coverage in the Oceana to Asia trading corridor

  • You will report to the Chief Market Reporting Officer for Protein

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. We will not tolerate harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classifications. The Company aims to harness these differences to create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are being fully utilized, and in which organizational goals are met. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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DEPARTMENT: US Commodity Insight Team

RESPONSIBLE TO: US Director of Commodity Insights 

Company:

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Softs Analyst to join its Commodity Insights Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insights Team is looking for an analyst to join its expanding coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services. Mintec recently acquired AgriBriefing with its companies Urner Barry, Stratégie Grains, Feedinfo, and Tropical Research Services, which together form the world’s largest food-commodity Price Reporting Agency (PRA) and data provider.

The role:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Soft Commodities Analyst to join our proprietary Commodity Insights Team, with particular focus on tropical softs such as coffee and cocoa. Ideally, you will come from an established Price Reporting Agency (PRA) or a soft commodities company with a familiarity in coffee and/or cocoa, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The Soft Commodities Pricing Analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team.

This position can be remote or based in one of our global offices.

Responsibilities: 

  • Expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA by covering and expanding Mintec’s offering in tropical softs such as coffee and cocoa
  • Increase the number of price assessments and reports published by Mintec in the coffee and cocoa sectors.
  • Build and grow the the number of industry contacts in the coffee and cocoa sectors who submit pricing data, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking.
  • Develop in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the coffee and cocoa commodity markets.
  • Collect transactional pricing data, bids, offers, tenders and any other information that will be relevant to assess the Mintec Benchmark Prices in line with Mintec’s robust methodology, price specifications and IOSCO-compliant principles.
  • Follow procedures to continue to build and maintain Mintec’s proprietary data.
  • Write regular pricing rationales, reports and analytical pieces.
  • Handle questions from contacts and the market about the dynamics of particular pricing, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.
  • Publishing new Mintec Benchmark Prices to the agreed schedule.

The ideal candidate should have:

  • Experience working in commodities, preferably in agricultural commodities. Experience of the coffee and/or cocoa industry would be preferable but is not a must.
  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of incoterms, trade flows and value chains.
  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.
  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities.
  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.
  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size.
  • Willingness to travel when required.

DEPARTMENT: News - Americas

REPORTS TO: Director, Americas News

 

Purpose of the role

We are seeking an experienced and ambitious Staff Writer to join our team that provides actionable news to our client base of commodities traders. Ideally, you will have knowledge of commodities markets. You will need to possess excellent research, writing, and communication skills, and enjoy interaction with traders, producers, and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The Staff Writer will be working closely with other members of the team to shape our coverage within the Americas.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Participate in a daily editorial conference to determine primary news of the day.
  • Generate original news articles and summaries of news that gets the minimum number of views in accordance with annual goals.
  • Management, utilization, and maintenance of outside news feeds submitting the required number of articles weekly.
  • On-going monitoring and reporting of critical industry news through phone contact, internet searches, court records, press releases and trade leads.

Accountabilities:

  • Act as liaison with market reporters to determine trends and specific stories.
  • Directly responsible for news content and formatting; and writing and proofing of promotional material.
  • Contribution to highest levels of customer satisfaction.
  • Professional interaction with staff.
  • Develop contacts and relationships within the food industry suitable to create stories.
  • Write stories according to the company's style guide. 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required.
  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours.
  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks. 

Education

  • Degree in Journalism, English, or Business Administration is preferred.

Language

  • Business-level English is a must.
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus.

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Interest in market behavior and business issues, with a basic understanding of economic principles.
  • Excellent research, writing and communication skills.
  • Creative ability and imagination. Self-starter with good ability to interact and learn from people.
  • Ability to work under pressure while completing assignments in a timely manner.
  • Willingness to travel.
  • Strong computer and internet skills - Command of Windows environment including Microsoft Office, excellent at using search engines, researching topics, papers, public documents, and court documents. 

Nature & Scope 

Contacts

  • The supply chain (Brokers, Traders, Sellers, Buyers, Ranchers).
  • Other media outlets and trade associations.
  • Reaching out regularly to build your network and reputation.
  • Correspondent network.
  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders.

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for news coverage in the Americas.
  • You will report to the Director, Americas News. 

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law. We will not tolerate harassment or discrimination based on any of these protected classifications. The Company aims to harness these differences to create a productive environment in which everybody feels valued, where their talents are being fully utilized, and in which organizational goals are met. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

E-Verify* is a registered trademark of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. We use E-Verify in our hiring practices to achieve a lawful workplace.

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

REPORTS TO: US Director of Commodity Insights

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Dairy Analyst to join our Commodity Insights Team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the dairy markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team to shape Mintec’s North American dairy price and market information coverage.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of dairy companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA.
  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the dairy markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis
  • Manage and grow a diverse dairy contact base of buyers, sellers, traders and brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.
  • Host webinars, videos and podcasts on the dairy markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.
  • In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the dairy commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for Mintec.
  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.
  • IOSCO accreditation: Ensure that Mintec passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting Mintec’s pricing and editorial standards
  • Build your reputation by sharing your content and analysis on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required
  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours
  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the dairy industry.
  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.
  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and dairy value chains.
  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.
  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.
  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (brokers, traders, sellers, buyers, farmers)
  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation
  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for Mintec’s North American dairy coverage
  • You will report to the US Commodity Insights Director

DEPARTMENT: Price Reporting Agency – Commodity Insights Team

REPORTS TO: US Director of Commodity Insights 

Primary Purpose:

Mintec is seeking an experienced and ambitious Grains & Oilseeds Analyst to join our Commodity Insights Team. Ideally, you will have knowledge of established Price Reporting Agencies (PRA) or a commodities company with a familiarity with the grains and oilseeds markets, and be experienced in working with price assessment methodologies, commodity specifications and IOSCO-compliant price reporting processes. You will need to be highly numerate with excellent analytical and communication skills and enjoy interaction with traders, producers and manufacturers in the agricultural commodity value chain. The analyst will be working closely with other members of the global Commodity Insights Team to shape Mintec’s North American grains and oilseeds price and market information coverage.

Key Accountabilities:

  • Assess a set number of proprietary prices and grow the number of grains and oilseeds companies benchmarking against our assessments to expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA.
  • Publish market analysis, commentaries (webinars, videos) and news relevant to the grains and oilseeds markets on a scheduled and ad hoc basis
  • Manage and grow a diverse grains and oilseeds contact base of buyers, sellers, traders & brokers, using all means of communication including face-to-face meetings and networking, to ensure the robustness of our price assessments

Accountabilities: 

  • Publish additional proprietary prices to an agreed schedule.
  • Host webinars, videos and podcasts on the grains and oilseeds markets to an agreed schedule and on an ad-hoc basis.
  • In-depth knowledge of the fundamentals, supply chain and key participants for the grains and oilseeds commodity markets in order to become a spokesperson for Mintec.
  • Handle questions from contacts, clients and the market about the dynamics of your markets, seeking guidance from your manager when inquiries are sensitive, to make our processes and judgement transparent to the market.
  • IOSCO accreditation: Ensure that Mintec passes its IOSCO accreditation by meeting Mintec’s pricing and editorial standards
  • Build your reputation by sharing your content and analysis on networking sites like LinkedIn on a regular basis 

Required Qualifications 

Job Requirements

  • Ability to travel when required
  • Can adapt to tight and changing deadlines, occasionally requiring irregular working hours
  • Resilient and able to persevere through setbacks 

Education

  • Educated to degree level 

Language

  • Business-level English is a must
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus

Experience, Skills & Abilities

  • Experience working in agricultural commodities, preferably in the grains and oilseeds industry.
  • Experience of working independently, with a self-starter attitude that is well-served in growing and maintaining a network of industry contacts for market knowledge and price collection.
  • A strong understanding of what impacts physical commodity prices, with experience in fundamentals analysis and report-writing, as well as a knowledge of trade flows and grains and oilseeds value chains.
  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.
  • Understanding of hedging and financial risk management of commodities would be considered a plus.
  • Ability to present complex topics clearly and concisely to groups of any size. 

Nature & Scope

Contacts

  • The supply chain (brokers, traders, sellers, buyers, farmers, etc.)
  • Reaching out daily to build your network and reputation
  • Cross-functional collaboration and exchange of information with internal stakeholders

Level of Responsibility:

  • You will be responsible for Mintec’s North American grains and oilseeds coverage
  • You will report to the US Commodity Insights Director

 



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