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Title: Trade & Pricing Analyst

Department: Operations

Reports to: Chief Operating Officer

Location: Mississauga, Ontario

Job Overview:

The Trade & Pricing Analyst sits at the center of commodity trading operation, connecting market intelligence, procurement, sales, and portfolio strategy. The analyst is responsible for maintaining a live, region-by-region view of market conditions, ensuring pricing holds up across the supply chain, managing the trading position, and providing timely, evidence-based recommendations to portfolio managers on how supply, demand, and capacity should shape execution. This is a high-coordination, high-judgment role for someone who is comfortable moving between data, markets, and people, and who can turn fragmented market signals into clear trading actions.

Responsibilities:

Market Intelligence:

• Maintain an up-to-date view of market conditions across each operating region — prices, spreads, freight, currency, weather, policy, and competitor activity.
• Translate raw market information into concise, decision-ready insights for portfolio managers and trading desks.

Pricing Coordination:

• Work closely with procurement and sales to ensure pricing is commercially viable end-to-end — that buy-side costs, margins, and sell-side pricing line up.
• Identify pricing gaps, margin erosion, or mismatches early and bring them to the relevant teams before they affect P&L.
• Support the build and maintenance of pricing models, benchmarks, and reference data used across the desk.

Strategy & Execution:

• Partner with portfolio managers to coordinate trading strategy and its execution, ensuring day-to-day activity stays aligned with the broader portfolio view.
• Work closely with the operations manager on trade execution and decision-making, ensuring trades are executed smoothly and operational realities are factored into trading decisions.
• Help translate strategy into actionable trades and monitor whether execution is delivering against intent.

Position Management & Recommendations:

• Manage and monitor the trading position, keeping an accurate, current outlook of exposure.
• Provide clear, well-reasoned recommendations grounded in supply/demand dynamics and capacity positions — when to build, reduce, hedge, or hold.
• Surface position-level risks (concentration, basis, timing) and proposed responses.

Portfolio Support:

• Support portfolio managers across a range of analytical, reporting, and operational tasks as needed.
• Prepare regular and ad-hoc analysis, reporting, and dashboards to support trading decisions and reviews.

Employment Qualifications & Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Agriculture, Supply Chain, Business, or a related quantitative field.
• 5-7 years’ experience in pricing, procurement, supply chain, or market analysis — ideally in agri-commodities.
• Strong understanding of commodity market fundamentals: supply/demand drivers, pricing mechanisms, freight, and basis.
• Experience working across procurement, sales, and trading functions is a strong advantage.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; comfortable working with large, imperfect datasets and turning them into clear conclusions.
• Advanced Excel; familiarity with BI tools, data platforms, or trading systems a plus.
• Excellent coordination and communication skills — able to work across procurement, sales, and portfolio teams and influence without authority.
• Commercial judgment and a sense for risk; able to make recommendations under uncertainty and time pressure.
• Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage competing priorities across multiple regions.

Proactive and self-directed, comfortable supporting senior stakeholders

Pay: $70,000.00-$95,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Dental care
• Disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Extended health care
• Flexible schedule
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Vision care

Work Location: In person