Senior Merchandiser

 Overall Purpose and Objective of PositionOur ethanol production facility sources grain from local growers and provides renewable fuel to the US market. This position originates corn and negotiates forward contracts to buyers of distillers’ grains, assists and implements in devising corn origination strategies and distiller’s grains sales programs and manages logistics and receivables in support of the ethanol processing operation at a dry mill ethanol plant. Primary Responsibilities/Essential FunctionsMaintains daily communication, organizes logistical services, assists with accounting issues and originates cornOversees inbound truck logistics for corn origination and outbound truck logistics for distillers’ grainsNegotiates forward sales contracts to buyers of wet and dry distillers’ grains and devises and executes origination and hedging strategies in corn and distillers’ grains Additional ResponsibilitiesGathers news, statistics and information related to individual commodity supply and demand from customers and trade sources, and distributes that information to the remainder of the group to support overall strategic trading/positioning (i.e., contributes to research function)Manages receivables and facilitates innovative methods to keep accounts receivable and average number of days to pay at a minimumIdentifies, qualifies and captures new business and consults clients on business management including physical commodity position managementOther duties as assigned