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Join a culture of innovation.

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


Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

Spencer

 

Join a culture of innovation.

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


Spencer Wicks,
CEO Mintec

Spencer

 


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.

 

 

Mintec, the world’s leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking sales agents to expand its business in key strategic markets. 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. Our clients rely on our extensive pricing data and analytical tools to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability. Our primary target markets are Europe and the U.S. with our top regions being Netherlands, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Italy and the USA. We are also interested in opportunities for sales agent representation in Asia and the MENA region.

Your role as a Mintec sales agent will require you to respond to qualified leads and identify new opportunities. You will be entirely responsible for presenting our solutions to companies, crafting proposals, negotiating and then closing annual subscription deals.

If you have experience of selling data solutions into this market and have a network of contacts in food and CPG procurement, we would be interested in hearing from you. These roles will require some agreed travel to meet clients at events or at their offices.

A competitive sales commission scheme is on offer for these territory-based home-working roles. If you are interested, then please apply to find out more details.

Department:                 Sales

Responsible to:            Sales Director

Location:                        Bourne End

 

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

This position is based in our Bourne End office.

 

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:                        North America

 

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:                Data

Responsible to:            Data Team Leader

Location:                        Bourne End, UK

 

Main Purpose of Job:

 

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Data Administrator with strong attention to detail 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. Mintec serves this huge and burgeoning global market and is looking for a Data Administrator to support Mintec's data operations.

 

The Role: 

 

The successful candidate will be a critical member of the Data Team and be responsible for capturing data from a wide variety of sources. They will ensure that data is timely and of the highest quality and answer any questions related to the data with robust information. This member of the team will also quickly develop knowledge of Mintec data sources and release new data, supporting members of the Research Team.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Downloading data from a multitude of information sources, in various formats from websites, emails and APIs, and entering it accurately into our database

• Ensure all tasks are delivered timely and to the required quality. Data must be updated according to its reporting frequency, on time. It must be entered correctly; anomalous values must be challenged

• Ensure processing and quality of data meets with company standards and client requirements, the Data Administrator will perform rigorous quality-control processes to flush out outlier data values, gaps in data and other anomalies; anomalies will often need investigating with the source of the data or with other team members

• Respond to data queries from Mintec's Client Success Team within required timescales, with sufficient information for them to feedback to the client

• Undertake special projects and other reasonable work requests as required, including creating new Mintec time series, discontinuing obsolete series and collaborating in automation projects

• Maintain a strong work ethic and professional attitude at all times

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

 

Required Skills: 



This is not a simple data-entry role. The person we are looking for must be able to do the above, as well as having the following skills: 

• Proficiency in Excel

• Strong attention to detail

• Critical thinking 

• Ability to remain alert in the midst of repetitive tasks

• Work under pressure

• Curiosity

• Ability to probe into a question

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

 

Please send all CVs for consideration to: eric.prideaux@mintecglobal.com

Department:                Data and Intelligence, Research

Responsible to:            Research Team Leader

Location:                        Bourne End, UK

Contract type:              Full-time or part-time (20 hours) available

 

Main Purpose of Job:

 

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a curious Junior Researcher with  to join its research 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 research to help their procurement professionals purchase raw materials smartly and improve their companies’ profitability. 

Mintec has been providing market leading raw material price data and business intelligence tools to global procurement teams for more than 30 years. We provide market intelligence to the largest manufacturers and retailers around the world, using advanced technology and supported by a data-driven intelligence team with strong research and knowledge skill across a wide range of markets, from raw materials to indirect costs.

 

The Role: 

 

The successful candidate will be a valuable member of the Research Team and help shape the research division within Mintec. You will need to be a self-starter and enjoy working within a fast-paced environment.  You will be analytical with excellent data and communication skills and enjoy working independently as well as within a team.  The Junior Researcher will be working closely with the Research Team Leader.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Finding new data that fits within company strategy

• Collecting and analysing new data

• Liaising with other departments to make new data available to clients as well as other projects

• Planning and organising your workload to ensure maximum efficiency

• Compilation and presentation of results

• Continuously improving processes and procedures

• Maintaining internal working relationships as well as with external data suppliers

• Maintain good work ethic and professional attitude

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

 

Required Skills: 



• Either an academic background (e.g. a research-based degree) or experience of working in a busy office environment

• Demonstrated experience in research

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

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

• Strong teamwork and cross-group collaboration skills

• Strong organisational and administration skills, with the ability to work in a pressured environment, delivering work to set deadlines

• Strong interpersonal skills, both within Mintec and in client-facing situations

• Excellent attention to detail and a meticulous and organised approach to work

 

Department:                 Client Success

Responsible to:            Client Success Manager

Location:                        Bourne End, UK

 

 

Main Purpose of Job:

 

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Client Success Representative to join its Client Success 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. 

Mintec has been providing market leading raw material price data and business intelligence tools to global procurement teams for more than 30 years. We provide market intelligence to the largest manufacturers and retailers around the world, using advanced technology and supported by a data-driven intelligence team with strong research and knowledge skill across a wide range of markets, from raw materials to indirect costs.

 

The Role: 

 

Mintec is poised for rapid growth serving this huge and burgeoning global market and is seeking an energetic and highly organised Client Success Representative to assist clients and their users with the use of the Mintec platform to ensure full understanding of the service and its value. This role is ideal for someone who is interested in transitioning to a Client Success role but doesn’t have experience in a Client Success discipline. It is not a junior role, but requires a different skill set to our existing Client Success Executives.


We are looking for someone who is comfortable with mainly administrative duties with some client interaction but has a deep desire to help people. The job entails managing a large number of clients through an automated client journey, completing clerical tasks relating to product installations and be the point of contact for users questions. The key objective for the entire Client Success team is to ensure maximum client retention and this role is integral to ensure our self-sufficient clients and users have everything they need to use our data and analytics platform.

 

Responsibilities:

 

• Oversee and maintain the automated communication to an allocation of 350+ clients (approx. 7,000 users) with the aim of ensuring they all have the information they need to utilise Mintec's services in the most efficient way possible

• Monitor the health of the allocated client base and escalate health related issues to the Client Success Executives as required

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

• Diligently complete administration duties relating to the installation and management of the entire client base

• Correlating our separate user databases to ensure they all match at all times (Product and CRM)

• Issuing Product Usage Reports to entire client base on a regular basis

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

 

Required Skills: 



• Experience in a customer facing role, whether that be office based or face to face, in a hands on role such as retail or food service

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, should be comfortable using the phone as well as email

• Excellent administration abilities; extremely organised with high attention to detail

• Fantastic social skills; friendly and outgoing, enjoys connecting with new people

• Quick learner, ability to think on your feet

• Computer literate with a willingness to learn how to use and maintain a number of software applications

• First-rate multi-tasker, able to take on many duties and manage priorities

• Problem solver who is analytical and data driven

• Experience of Salesforce or customer success software and health scoring an advantage but not essential

Department:                Forecasting

Responsible to:            Fundamentals Team Leader

Location:                        Copenhagen, Denmark

Contract Type:               15-20 hours per week

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 a week. We expect a certain degree of flexibility near deadlines, but we will accommodate your requests in relation to your exams and schedule.

 

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

 

The Candidate: 



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

 

Please send all CVs for consideration to: jobs@mintecglobal.com

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: Sales

RESPONSIBLE TO: Sales Director

LOCATION: Denmark/Germany

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 experienced and dedicated Sales Development Representative to join our team. The role is suited to a person with drive and determination and outstanding telesales capabilities which has been honed in by building new business generation. You will have excellent presentation and telephone sales skills and the confidence to deal with senior management and budget holders of prospective client companies.

The role:

  • Calling and engaging with B2B companies to arrange appointments for the new business sales team
  • Maximising all selling opportunities for the new business sales team, through questioning skills, ascertaining prospective customer needs and key issues
  • Scheduling appointments
  • Working from a database of lead information as well as your own cold calling of targeted mapped leads
  • Carrying out follow up calls to confirm appointments
  • Managing your own diary and the new business sales team’s
  • Working to targets and KPI’s
  • Providing a professional and efficient service to all customers
  • CRM Database administration
  • Query handling & general administration
  • Other responsibilities as determined by management
  • To ensure ISO 27001 training is attended and all mandatory documents have been read to ensure working practices comply

Experience and Education:

  • Previous telesales or sales environment experience
  • Background of working in an office-based environment, Admin, Reception, B2B roles
  • Attention to detail
  • Listening skills are extremely important
  • Tenacious and hardworking
  • Personable, ability to converse on the phone with ease
  • Fluent in German and/or French language essential

DEPARTMENT: Marketing

RESPONSIBLE TO: Global Head of Marketing

LOCATION: North America - Flexible 

 

The Company:

Mintec, a leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Marketing Campaign Manager to join its growing team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as a 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 vast and burgeoning global market, and is seeking an ambitious campaign manager to join our Marketing Team. The successful candidate will be a valuable team member, developing digital marketing campaigns to promote brand awareness and generate qualified sales leads.

 

The role:

The Marketing Campaign Manager will be a crucial member of our Marketing team, managing and executing our Mintec campaign strategy in North America and beyond to drive brand awareness that supports the sales pipeline and drives targeted new logo demand generation.

The role involves everything from developing and managing the overall campaign calendar, execution and development of the campaign strategy, end to end delivery of campaigns, measurement and analytics to ensure we are achieving ROI.

Insights and intelligence will need to be gathered from different teams and thought leaders across Mintec. These will inform campaign planning and demonstrate our expertise across all elements of our targeted people-based marketing activities while supporting existing clients on their ongoing journey to adopt all relevant product benefits and capabilities.

Content creation and virtual event planning will be managed to ensure the regular delivery of content that supports demand generation. This content will range from white papers, thought leadership pieces, webinars and even virtual event attendance, all of which will need to be supported by PR and paid media activity to drive growth.

This role is a new and exciting, fully remote position at Mintec, based in North America. It offers the opportunity to shape the role as the region and team develop.

 

The role will be a driving force behind the marketing strategy that we are launching in North America. You will have the chance to interact with many colleagues from across the business to ensure we provide our customers and prospects with the most relevant, insightful and informative content that helps Mintec drive growth through its people-based marketing while supporting our growth objectives. You will regularly interact with colleagues from across the wider Commercial Teams in North America and Europe.

 

We encourage learning and development for all our teams, where a strong understanding of the business is vital to the role and career progression.

 

Skills, Experience and Education:

We are looking for someone who has drive and energy combined with a curious, proactive, and people-focused marketing and lead generation approach. The successful candidate must also possess good communication and writing skills.

We anticipate that the suitable candidate will bring extensive experience working in a lead generation marketing role. 

  • A College degree in marketing, business, or a similar field would be beneficial

  • We anticipate that the suitable candidate will bring extensive experience working in a lead generation or marketing campaign role, executing the marketing strategy

  • Experience working with HubSpot, Salesforce (or a similar campaign tool) is essential. Including working with data segmentation, measurement and optimisation experience, building campaigns in the tool through to delivery

  • Excellent written and communication skills are vital with the ability to take/brief in campaigns

  • Excellent project management skills; confident in managing upward and coordinating with teams

  • A strong understanding of the marketing campaign process and best practices

  • A well-organised individual who enjoys planning and problem-solving and has a desire to be a remote worker that is part of a small, agile team based in the UK

  • A team player with a solid and confident personality and a positive can-do attitude with great dedication

  • Excellence in Microsoft Office, Social Media Tools, and proficiency in HubSpot/Salesforce

Day to day, you will be:

  • Managing, executing and developing marketing campaigns

  • Supporting events with invites, landing page, database, campaign calendar, follow-ups, webinars

  • Working with the Sales and Product teams to gather insight and information to inform the content strategy

  • Briefing content creators, building emails and implementing Salesforce and HubSpot updates to ensure campaigns are planned, created and delivered on time

  • Review campaigns and analyse how we can improve performance in the future and action the requirements

  • Measure and track our marketing investment against essential SQL And MQL KPIs

 

Role: Group Financial Accounting Manager

DEPARTMENT: Finance

RESPONSIBLE TO: CFO

LOCATION: Bourne End / Hybrid

 

The Company:

Mintec, a leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Group Financial Accounting Manager to join its growing team. In an $8 trillion annual market for agricultural commodities and food, Mintec occupies a unique position as a 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.

 

We are a rapidly growing business and are seeking an ambitious Group Financial Accounting Manager to join our small Finance Team.


You will be working with a group of successful colleagues in a supportive and friendly environment with flexible and hybrid working.

 

Duties include:

  • Consolidating US, EU & UK entities into UK head office

  • Producing month-end management and stat accounts

  • Hands-on duties including VAT returns & bank recs

  • Liaising with investors and report on requested analysis

  • Overseeing year end audit processes and accounts production (FRS102, IFRS)

  • Implementing process improvements to enhance the efficiency and accuracy of monthly, quarterly and annual reporting process

  • Overseeing the sales order and collection cycle and invoice to pay cycles

  • Overseeing year end close, taking the lead with audit and consolidation, field audit queries, draft stats and audit schedules.

  • M&A Integration, taking the lead on PPA and Acquisition journals

  • Integrating systems where appropriate

  • Processing VAT returns and reconciliations, Intra stats, transfer pricing, corporate tax, R&D tax claim and Sales and Usage tax

  • Overseeing treasury reconcilliations, hedging, currency exposure management and cash forecasting

  • Maintaining bookkeeping entries – Fixed Assets and depreciation postings, standard prepayment journals, standard trading accruals and provisions, intercompany reconciliation / journals, and the payroll journal.

Person specification:

  • ACCA / ACA qualified

  • Audit background, ideally Big 4 trained

  • Industry experience in SaaS subscription business would be advantageous

  • Sound working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP

  • Well-organised who enjoys planning and problem-solving

  • A team player with a positive can-do attitude

  • Excellent stakeholder management skills

DEPARTMENT: Technology

RESPONSIBLE TO: Head of Technology

LOCATION: Flexible 

The Company:

Mintec, the leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking a Technical Architect 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 Architect to join our Technology 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:

  • Working collaboratively with Product Management, Head of Technology and both internal and external development teams, understand the goals of the business and translate those into technical solutions

    • Working closely with our Product Manager to help formulate and plan product software maintenance initiatives into version release plans

    • Ensuring security is considered early and part of all new enhancements to our platform and product portfolio.

    • Input into budgeting and cost management for all internal and externally developed systems

    • Monitoring and collaborating on assigned projects in accordance with the architectural vision and the standards you define

    • Collaborating closely with and providing direction to the third-party development team including business analysts, developers, and testers. Contributing when necessary to the solution or supporting as required

    • Monitoring and assessing the quality of the deliverables against the architecture and technology standards

    • Maintain architectural and design documentation to ensure it reflects the current state

    • Hands-on and in touch with the implementation, identify opportunities for improvement and provide feedback during reviews

    • Responsible for ensuring all policies and procedures are followed to ensure adherence to the ISO 27001 standard

    • Responsible for ensuring objectives and tasks set adhere to the requirements of the ISO 27001 standard

     

Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft Azure or another tier one hosting provider

• Architecture in a modern cloud setting

• Scalability, Availability and Performance of systems

• Modern Web applications, RESTful APIs and Mobile (desirable)

• Understanding of security

• .Net development 4.7x and Core in (C#)

• Containerisation principles (Docker files, AKS Kubernetes) (desirable)

• Core understanding of patterns

• Data structures and performance optimisation

• Ability to code PoC and working prototypes

• Analytical skills, enjoy learning new challenges/skills

• Data management (MongoDB/SQL) or similar

• Technical Writing and documentation review/feedback

Department:                 Price Reporting Agency

Responsible to:            US Commodity Insight Manager

Location:                        America

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, is the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company with over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies. 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 profitability.

 

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA by growing the coverage into the processing fruit and vegetable markets.
  • Increase the number of price assessments and reports published by Mintec in the processing fruit and vegetable sector.
  • Build and grow the number of industry contacts in the fruit and vegetable sector that 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 in the fruit and vegetable commodity markets.
  • Collect transactional pricing data, bids, offers, tenders and any other information that will be relevant to assessing 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.

Recommended Skills and Experience:

  • At least one year of experience working in commodities, preferably in the fruit and/or vegetable industry.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge 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.
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus.
  • Willingness to travel when required.

Department:                 Price Reporting Agency

Responsible to:            US Commodity Insight Manager

Location:                        America

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, is the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company with over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies. 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 profitability.

Responsibilities:

  • Increase the number of reports and price assessments published by Mintec in the industrial commodity sector such as metals, energy, plastics, packaging and chemicals.
  • Build and grow the number of industry contacts in the industrial sector that submit pricing data and insights 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 industrial commodity markets.
  • Collect transactional market insights as well as pricing data that will be relevant to publishing reports, and news stories or 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 Mintec Benchmark Prices and Mintec reports to an agreed schedule

Recommended Skills and Experience:

  • At least one year of experience working with industrial commodities such as metals, energy, chemicals, pulp & paper, or similar.
  • 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.
  • A high standard of written work and ability to summarize complex topics for a broad audience.
  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel as well as performing various types of data analysis.
  • Knowledge 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.
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus.
  • Willingness to travel when required.

Department:                 Price Reporting Agency

Responsible to:            US Commodity Insight Manager

Location:                        America

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, is the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company with over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies. 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 profitability.

Responsibilities:

  • Expand Mintec’s position as the leading food-commodity PRA by growing the coverage into the sugar and sweeteners markets.
  • Increase the number of price assessments and reports published by Mintec in the sugar and sweeteners sector.
  • Build and grow the number of industry contacts in the sugar and sweeteners sector that 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 sugar and sweeteners 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.

Recommended Skills and Experience:

  • At least one year of experience working in commodities, preferably in the sugar and/or sweeteners industry.
  • 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.
  • Knowledge 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.
  • Business-level Spanish would be considered a plus.
  • Willingness to travel when required.

Department:                 Price Reporting Agency

Responsible to:            EMEA Commodity Manager

 

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, is the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company with over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies. 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 profitability.

Responsibilities:

  • Proofreading, fact-checking and editing commodity reports
  • Shaping and ensuring adherence to the Mintec style guide
  • Assist Mintec’s PRA leadership in developing and growing our client deliverables
  • Assist in Mintec’s social media coverage, working closely with our Marketing department
  • Take ownership of Mintec reports being designed and released in a timely and professional way
  • Work closely with the design team to ensure consistency across all outputs delivered by the commodity expert team
  • Assist the Commodity Expert Team with editorial supervision for presentations, webinars or face-to-face meetings.

Recommended Skills and Experience:

  • At solid experience working as a journalist, preferably with a commodity or finance background
  • Exceptional English writing and editing skills and the ability to proofread American and British English due to the global nature of our business and readership
  • A desire to develop an editorial team
  • Experience working with fact-checking numbers as part of written copy
  • A strong understanding of SEO
  • Experience in building and maintaining an in-house style guide

Department:                 Price Reporting Agency

Responsible to:            EMEA Commodity Insight Manager

 

Main Purpose of Job:

Mintec, the world-leading soft commodities and food raw materials price analytics company, is seeking an ambitious Commodity & Pricing Analyst to join its Commodity Insight Team. With over 35 years of experience serving Europe's largest and most well-respected companies, the Mintec Commodity Insight Team is looking for a new pricing analyst to join its expanding EMEA coverage and provide market prices, knowledge and commentary to the biggest names in international retail and food services.

Responsibilities:

  • Increase the number of reports and price assessments published by Mintec in the industrial commodity sector such as metals, energy, plastics, packaging and chemicals.
  • Build and grow the number of industry contacts in the industrial sector that submit pricing data and insights 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 industrial commodity markets.
  • Collect transactional market insights as well as pricing data that will be relevant to publishing reports, and news stories or 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 Mintec Benchmark Prices and Mintec reports to an agreed schedule

Recommended Skills and Experience:

  • At least one year of experience working with industrial commodities such as metals, energy, chemicals, pulp & paper, or similar.
  • 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.
  • A high standard of written work and ability to summarise complex topics for a broad audience.
  • Highly numerate with a keen eye for detail; very comfortable using MS Excel and performing various types of data analysis.
  • Knowledge 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.
  • Business-level German would be considered a plus.
  • Willingness to travel when required.

 



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