Trader

Frey • Kansas, KS

11d

About The Position

Frey is seeking an experienced, market-driven trader to originate and trade feed ingredients from its base in Leawood, Kansas. The role connects plants and processors with Frey’s export program and is responsible for profitably originating, trading, and executing domestic feed ingredient flows, from plant-direct business through supply to international markets. The trader reports to the Director of Feed Ingredients, works closely with export teams, and helps build the Feed vertical in a fast-growing, entrepreneurial organization.

Requirements

• 5–7 years of experience in commodity merchandising, trading, origination, or domestic logistics within grain, oilseeds, by-products, or feed ingredients.
• Working knowledge of domestic basis markets, FOB versus delivered structures, and truck and rail freight logistics.
• Comfort originating by phone daily and building relationships with plants, brokers, and buyers.
• Strong numeracy and trade acumen, including the ability to price a trade, calculate margin, identify risk, and solve problems.
• Execution discipline across all components of the trade flow and supply chain.
• Flexibility to support the export team and customers across time zones as needed.

Nice To Haves

• Experience trading by-products such as distillers, soybean meal, corn gluten, and bakery meal.
• Knowledge of NGFA, GAFTA, and NOPA rules.
• Existing supplier relationships.
• Familiarity with U.S.-to-Asia export flows.

Responsibilities

• Build and deepen relationships with strategic partners, including ethanol plants, crushing facilities, processors, brokers, and resellers; develop the market and customers within the assigned book of business.
• Originate and sell basis and flat-price feed ingredients across domestic and export markets.
• Negotiate FOB and delivered truck and rail business, trade regional spreads and carry or inverse markets, and arbitrage across transportation modes.
• Monitor physical and futures markets to manage positions, hedge exposure, and manage customer and commodity risk within credit limits.
• Maintain accurate P&L and contract quality, review daily reports to keep books clean, and provide market intelligence to the export team.
• Coordinate logistics and carrier relationships for truck and rail flows.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed