Agricultural Business Head – West Africa

Redstone Commodity Search focus on offering 360° search solutions to the global commodities markets. With a competitive coverage of Trading Houses, Producers, Majors, Utilities, Merchants, Hedge Funds, Investment Banks and Brokerages; Redstone Commodity Search can confidently offer you an edge in today’s volatile market.Redstone Commodity Search are working with an international Soft & Agricultural Trading House looking to hire an Agricultural Business Head to be based in Lagos, Nigeria.Key Responsibilities / Tasks

• Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement growth strategies, creating comprehensive short, medium, and long-term business plans.
• Global Trade Operations Management: Execute global trade operations strategy with a focus on TAT and process orientation.
• Manage shipping operations (Bulk) and logistics, ensuring end-to-end workflow planning / Business Development for Agri products.
• Financial Expertise and Risk Management: Demonstrate financial expertise, including exposure to fund raising and understanding of treasury and capital structure.
• Trade and Contract Expertise: Handle multi-currency contracts, bulk, and container trades, with detailed knowledge of Agri products and stay conversant with Asia & Africa trade flows.
• Reports into Global CEO.

• Postgraduate from a Tier 1 institute in International Trade / Business / Agriculture.
• 12-15 years of international trading experience of agricultural products (grains, oilseeds, pulses, RCN, Nuts, spices etc).
• Fluency in English / French / Hindi.
• Knowledge of full cycle of supply chain, international trade / jurisdictions, covering WAF regions.
• Located in Lagos, Nigeria.