DRY BULK TRADING OPERATOR INTERN

at  TotalEnergies

ACTIVITÉS

Desired Start Date: Q2 2024
Take your first steps into a fulfilling career and join our team as an intern!
Are you looking to grow your career in the vibrant world of energy trading?
If yes, we would love to see your profile! We are looking for our next Dry Bulk Trading Operator Intern.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

The commercial deals of the Molten Sulphur cargoes transacted by the Trading Desk need to be implemented as per the negotiated terms & conditions and carried-out on a day-to-day basis.
The jobholder is responsible for protecting the P&L of this trading desk by executing each contract efficiently, hence avoiding any loss and possibly increasing the profit.
The position shall include cover the trading Operator during holiday/unplanned absence.
Support the trading desk by providing historical and/or statistical data and operational advice with regards to new contracts upon request.

As a Dry Bulk Trading Operator Intern, you will be the key interface between the Dry Bulk Trading Desk, the Chartering Desk, the Shipping Operations Desk, the Back-Office, and the Finance & Legal departments to operate the negotiated contracts of the highly valuable physical Sulphur, Petcoke and Woods Pellets cargoes traded by the Company. With a focus on Molten Sulphur.

Job dimension:

• International activity with a European dimension (UK/France/Italy/Belgium/Germany..)
• Logistics for Sulphur: 5 000 trucks, 210 trains and 90 barges per year.
• Interactions with a great variety of worldwide interlocutors, both internal and external, in an international/multicultural surrounding (mainly focused in Europe)
• Significant role in the payment process
• Best possible optimisation of the trading profit ( PnL)

In this context, your main responsibilities will be the following:

• Select the logistical partners and define the contractual scheme, in coordination with the RC and MS experts on train and trucks services. Participate to the negotiation/contractual discussion with the contractors.
• Manage and monitor the performance of those contracts.
• Monitor the dry bulk Sulphur markets and provides regular updates to the Dry Bulk Trading desk.
• Estimate the logistics costs and provides quotations to support the Dry Bulk trading activity (spot cargo opportunity, cargo diversion …).
• Assist the traders in clarifying/defining their needs.
• Always ensure a high level of safety in the activity in due compliance with the Trading Division’s rules and with the TotalEnergies procedure. In particular:
• always ensures a full compliance with the Group vetting procedure and safety guidelines;
• always ensures a full compliance with the trading authority limits and delegations of authority;
• Always ensures a full compliance with the credit department procedures for third parties approval.
• Ensure a good coordination with the dry bulk trading.
• Monitor the performances and control the costs of parties.
• Negotiate and compromise any dispute with stakeholders.
• Support the trading desk in negotiating the shipping related aspects of Sulphur contracts (LT contracts, spot purchase or diversion agreement…)
• Participate to the setting up of the chartering company, developing the procedures and IT tools to support its activity.
• If needed, represent the department in shipping committee (compatibility meetings, vetting …).
• Esure storage and process contracts are diligently managed (quantities / qualities / financial exposure / customs etc.).
• Identify the cause of any encountered operational problems and ensure resolution through coordination with all affected stakeholders, mitigating costs and consequences for the Group
• Participate, in association with the traders, to the regular delivery program discussions with suppliers and receivers, aiming at the perfect match between supplies and demand
• Thoroughly check and apply the various deadlines / time-bars to perform requested tasks in a timely manner. Failure to do so could lead to high extra costs,
• Create a very trustful and fruitful cooperation with terminals/suppliers and customers correspondents providing a real additional value for the traders,
• Precisely and carefully record and capture the requested data of the activities in the various internal systems in order to maintain accurate files in view of follow-up, archiving and audit purposes and participate in the development of the new operational software, cooperating with IT department, which will result in a better integrated system (Sulphur Tool/Medissys)
• Regularly liaising liaising with Middle Office regarding the P&L impacts caused by operational changes,
• Participate in projects to simplify and streamline all operational flows sustainably and through innovative new tools and procedures.
• Seek value-add opportunities through market intelligence and optimisation of logistics and trading deals