Associate Team Lead- Trade Execution

Location : Mohali 

City : Mohali 

State : Punjab (IN-PB) 

Country : India (IN) 

Requisition Number : 36018 

Role Purpose Statement

 

Bunge Limited (www.bunge.com, NYSE: BG) is a leading global agribusiness and food company operating in over 40 countries with approximately 35,000 employees. Bunge buys, sells, stores and transports oilseeds and grains to serve customers worldwide; processes oilseeds to make protein meal for animal feed and edible oil products for commercial customers and consumers; produces sugar and ethanol from sugarcane; mills wheat, corn and rice to make ingredients used by food companies; and sells fertilizer in South America. Founded in 1818, the company is headquartered in White Plains, New York. Bunge has implemented a Shared Services Center in Mohali, India to support Global Operations in areas of Finance & Accounting, Trade Operations, Treasury and IT Support and other back office support Services

 

This position is responsible to execute shipments/vessels and ensure flawless execution of commodity trade contracts, which services the Asia Pacific operations for Bunge Group. In addition, there is also responsibility to support Officers in transaction processing & issue resolution.

 

Main Accountabilities 

 

•    Perform vessel screening to ensure compliance as per Bunge Global guidelines – Review of reports, Check availability of vessel charter party agreement, vessel certificates and others
•    Gather information on contracts nominated on the vessel to be executed from the Business Team
•    Update vessel nomination details to Sellers and Buyers (counterparties)
•    Follow-up and get conformation on vessel nomination from counterparties
•    Request the Business Team to nominate surveyors and load port agents for the vessel
•    Monitor loading/discharge operations and coordinate with surveyors and load port agents
•    Send regular updates to Buyers on the vessel status
•    Create contract vessel and parcel in SAP system, and Nominate purchase/sales contracts in SAP system
•    Preparation of Shipping Documents like Bills of Lading, Packing List, Commercia invoice etc.
•    Timely execute & settle purchase/sales contracts in SAP system 
•    Provide guidance and inputs to co-workers (Documents team) on documents to be prepared for vessel execution for submission to internal and external stakeholders
•    Receive freight and purchase invoices from sellers and forward it to co-workers (Finance team) for payments processing
    
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

•    Reduce the Cash Cycle for trade flows under different value chains .
•    Target minimum