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
