Commodity Risk Manager , Grains – Soft recruitment
Trinity Procurement GmbH (“Trinity”) is a brand new enterprise formed to manage the global procurement activities of SABMiller plc. Headquartered in Zug, Switzerland, Trinity will create value for its customers and investors through excellence in purchasing across an extensive range of commodities, including brewing materials, packaging materials, capital equipment and other assets and non-production spend. The steady state annual value of spend under management is expected to exceed US$10bn by 2016.
SABMiller has grown to become one of the world's largest most respected brewing companies. With operations in over 60 countries, it has more beer brands in the world's top 50 than any other brewer and it ranks among the top 3 brewers in more than 30 countries. SABMiller manufactures and markets over 150 beer brands. These include such international names as: Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Miller Genuine Draft, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell, as well as major regional brands such as: Castle Lager, Miller Lite, Carling Black Label, Aguila, Cristal, Pilsener, Atlas, Snow and Tyskie.
The role Commodity Risk Manager - Agricultural Products within Trinity Procurement GmbH is to:
- Advise on commodity price commitment management and the resultant commodity price exposure management globally. Coordinate commodity price commitment and commodity price exposure management for a specific commodity set.
- Advise category teams with brewing raw materials related soft commodities on price and market information, including historic data, trends and outlook, in order for the category teams to make effective pricing decisions.
- Develop, execute and maintain risk strategy in alignment with Trinity Procurement and SABMiller Group policies. Working with finance to ensure that the creation of commitment risk is properly managed and accounted for.
- The successful candidate will have an appropriate finance related qualification, 5+ years professional experience both in commodity and financial risk management and will have full understanding in working as finance / risk “business partner”. Furthermore, strong communication and coaching skills coupled with excellent stakeholder management skills in a complex decentralised global environment will be instrumental in this role in order to facilitate and generate consensus. Excellent self management practices along with a proactive, customer oriented, energetic and pragmatic approach will be required.
Direct reporting line: CFO
Location: Zug, Switzerland