Job Title: Merchant Coordinator
Reports To: Dir-Commodity Procurement NA Milling
Location: St. Louis, MO
About Grain Craft Corn Milling (Previously Bunge): Grain Craft is a company that is committed to our team members. We offer generous benefits with a focus on three guiding pillars: Driven With Purpose* (We Make Every Day Count), Relationships Are Everything (Meaningful Connections Fuel Our Success), and Right Always Wins (We Never Compromise on Safety, Quality, and Commitment). These pillars are the bedrock of Grain Craft’s high-performance culture. We champion an intensely collaborative and creative environment, a diverse and inclusive culture, and continuous learning and development opportunities for professional growth. Our pillars are real and lived out every day in action, and our mission has never changed.
Grain Craft Corn Milling’ offers competitive pay and great benefits, including Health, Dental, Vision, Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Bonuses, 401K with up to 6% matching (vested on Day 1!), Employee and Family Assistance Programs, and several Supplemental Benefit offerings.
Job Summary:
The Merchant Coordinator role will be part of the Supply Chain team and will be based out of our St. Louis, MO office. The purpose of this position is to create a positive internal and external customer experience while acting as a coordinator to link merchandising, origination, transportation, and accounting. The incumbent will be responsible for assisting the merchants with sales, purchase and trading activities to include entering and pricing contracts, creating load orders and schedules, aligning supply to our plants, organizing logistics, building reports and analytics, and general support functions to the merchandising team.
This position is the key point of contact between our merchant team members and other functions within the Corn Milling business, and a vital link to our customers. The Merchant Coordinator is also responsible for various projects and continuous process improvements as assigned.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
· Assist and help execute and manage corn purchase and byproduct sales contracts
· Review existing GTC orders daily
· Compare Futures trades vs. the Broker statement to ensure all totals agree
· Enter futures trades in Tru Grain and balance positions
· Answer and make calls to vendors and customers; provide a positive customer experience
· Populate product sales and corn trades on our hedge position to assist our risk management/hedge desk
· Run and email daily position related reports, including PBI, manual reports, cost card, open contract reports, and other analytical reporting
· Manage corn truck and rail settlements and grain accounting tasks
· Execute futures exchanges through call and/or email to our clearinghouse
· Provide basic contractual and pricing info to our farmers by mill and corn types
· Assist in management/organization of our specialty corn programs including regen, hybrid specific, and organization of specialty corn positions
· Back up for grain accounting and merchants when someone is out of the office
· Assist the Feed Sales manager with invoicing, schedules/logistics, contract management and reporting, and other miscellaneous duties
· Manage new vendor and customer set up in systems, and update account info as required
Other Possible Duties May Include:
· Assist corn buyers and staff with grain purchases from growers and commercials to maximize origination through team communication and execution
· Eventually enter GTC orders on live pricing platforms and work up to entering live orders
· Work with the Transportation/Rail department to improve processes and run analysis
· Assist our prime product sales and sales management team as needed
Qualifications
· Basic Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
· Tru Grain and Oracle based tech experience would be helpful but not mandatory
· Willingness to learn and ask questions
· Strong communication and people skills with all levels, using different styles
· Proactive in problem-solving, creating solutions and process improvements
· 3-5 years’ experience in customer service, logistics or related work
· Multi-tasking and time management is a must
· Be able to handle stress
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENT:
This position is contingent upon successfully passing Grain Craft’s background screening, physical (if applicable) and drug-screening. Grain Craft maintains that we are a drug-free company on all levels.
EEO STATEMENT:
Grain Craft provides equal employment opportunities to all team members and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
By applying for this job at Grain Craft, you acknowledge and agree to receive communications via text, email, and phone.
Pay: From $60,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Retirement plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
