Trade
Traders, trade finance specialists and supply chain teams for businesses that move goods and money across borders.
Hiring in Trade
Trade hiring sits at the point where commercial risk meets operational detail. The same business that needs a commodity trader who can read a forward curve also needs someone who will not let a shipment sit at customs for nine days.
We recruit across both halves — front-office trading and origination, trade finance and documentation, and the freight, customs and supply chain roles that turn a signed contract into delivered goods. Our desks cover the UK, Europe, India and the Gulf corridors, which is usually where our clients' counterparties already are.
What makes it hard
- Specs written for a trader with a ready-made book, when the role is really about building one from scratch.
- Trade finance candidates screened on product names rather than on whether they have actually handled a discrepancy under an LC.
- Compliance and sanctions screening treated as a back-office afterthought, until an audit says otherwise.
- Offers that lose to a competitor because the commission structure was still being agreed three weeks into the process.
- Regional roles advertised from head office, with no one on the ground who knows the local salary reality.
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