Are you a potential Trader with aspirations to develop in an international bunker company? Are you willing to go an extra (nautical) mile when needed, and do you thrive with sales and building relations? Then, your ideal career opportunity awaits right here! Dive in and set sail with us.
Job description
Monjasa is a leading global partner in the oil and shipping industry who believes strongly in driving Personal Business. We aim to inspire our business partners and become the first choice by challenging status quo with our original solutions. We are thus on the lookout for a colleague who can identify with Monjasa’s values and is capable of building strong relations both internally and externally.
As our new Trader in Houston, you will join one of our dedicated and skilled teams characterised by proactivity and passion for the industry. Your primary role is day-to-day trading, covering sales, purchase of bunker fuel and logistical planning to optimise profits. Your main focus is identifying and opening in new customers. Thus, you will experience a high level of professional creativity and the possibility to think outside the box. You will be in contact with networks all over the world and have an international exposure, giving you the opportunity to travel and visit our customers and other business partners.
Areas of focus
- Develop and maintain a solid and stable portfolio of customers and suppliers.
- Ensure optimal customer satisfaction by building strong personal relations and providing specialist advice in bunker solutions
- Liaising with key accounts on orders and physical supply coordination
- Build and nurture personal relations with our suppliers
- Provide internal support by surveying ports/regions, tracking vessel movements, and coordinating fuel delivery
- Communicate and coordinate with global offices on inquiries, orders and coordination of supply in the Americas
Your professional skills
- You might be a recent graduate from a relevant education – most likely with a commercial focus
- Experience with sales, including canvas and customer handling
- Experience from the Bunker, Maritime and/or Shipping industry is an advantage, not a requirement
- Fluent in written/oral English – a 2nd language is an advantage
- You hold a valid permission to work in the US
Your personal skills
- Driven and resilient with a high customer focus
- Good at building personal relations
- Ability to work both in teams and self-motivated
- Seeking new market opportunities and engaging with business partners as a motivational part of the job
- Flair for numbers, analysis and negotiation
- Dynamic and Ambitious
- Team Player but simultaneously capable of working independently and pursuing goals.
Monjasa as a workplace
Monjasa offers you a fulfilling career in a global organisation, where you will be part of a dynamic and ambitious team. We enjoy great learning opportunities and are proud of our fantastic work environment. With “Monjasa means personal business” as the headline to our corporate purpose, this serves as the guiding principle for our business. You will also find that we live and breathe our values of Respect, Ambition, Curiosity and Smile & Joy. All four values and our corporate purpose are anchored in how we work together and reflect our company DNA.
Monjasa at a glance
Monjasa is a global partner in the oil and shipping industries. Our core business includes trading and supplying marine fuels and shipowning activities on a global level. We are characterised by a strong entrepreneurial spirit and have experienced strong developments since our start in 2002. Financially, Monjasa is recognised as a robust business partner and total revenue reached USD 5.5 billion in 2022 – or equivalent to 6.4 million tonnes of marine fuels supplied. The fleet currently consists of 30 tankers and barges, and our operations and offices are certified according to ISO 45001:2018, ISO 14001:2015, ISO 50001:2018 and ISO 9001:2015.
The Monjasa Group is committed to running a responsible business. We are actively engaging in the green transformation of the maritime sector by being an enabler of environmentally friendly fuels, as one of our ambitions in our Responsibility Framework.
The Monjasa Group also includes offshore Shipowning company CBED.
Application
We encourage you to read more about the company, the job application process and some good and valuable advice on how to best position yourself for the open job listing at Monjasa’s Careers site.
We look forward to receiving your application no later than November 30th.
Click here to apply online for Trader Position via Monjasa Website