2009 - 2010Junior Trader Africa (35 M€ turnover Africa/ >300 M€ in total)
• Part of a team of 3 people for the African market
• Developing and building the customer Portfolio in order to increase sales
• Credit management, Market analysis and prospection
• This position requires strong negotiations skills to be a driven and pro-active entrepreneur who can handle stressful situations. In addition to that trading with customers from Africa requires using key elements such as cultural sensitivity.
Archer Daniels Midland
- Internship
Minneapolis2007 - 2007Commercial intern
I learned the fundamentals of the business as:
• Procurement: Managing the physical cocoa supplies to 4 plants in Europe & Africa
• Risk Management: Trading futures contracts on the international markets exchange to manage purchase and prices risks
• Commercial: making powder and butter contracts. Customer’s service.
• Market Analysis: analyse SnD, stocks and news.
• Senior trader assistant: entering contract in the books, checking position, PnL, improvement of excel sheets for stocks overview.
ADM Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Ivory Coast (1 month)
• Negotiations with cooperatives and traitants
• Improve sustainable cocoa supply chain in Ivory Coast / S.E.R.A.P project
• Survey on the cocoa beans quality about the FFA issue in Ivory Coast
Ecom Trading / Singapore HQ
- Intern
2006 - 2006Trainee
• Cocoa project: 2 months on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi:
o Research and recommend how Ecom can improve quality production
o Start a fermented beans pilot project in Central Sulawesi.
• Singapore: one month at the trading desk.
Formations
ISTOM Ecole D'Ingénieur D'Agro Développement International (Cergy Pontoise)
