Commodities Business Analyst

ECOM is a world-leading soft commodity services group specialising in coffee, cocoa, and cotton with operations in over 40 countries and 6000 employees.With 175 years of market experience, ECOM is committed to sustainable and socially responsible leadership within the soft commodities industry. ECOM’sglobal operations rely on extensive knowledge and experience in supply chain traceability, risk management and client focused distribution to create a valuable and sustainable supply chain, starting from the local farmers and their communities through the worlds’ leading finished product manufacturers.

Background

Our First Mile projects are a key component for ECOM as an origin integrated trading company and have been a focus of our sustainability, traceability, and impact work for a long time. With recent updates in the EU regulations and increased stakeholder pressures, data capture within the first mile of our supply chain is now more important than ever.

ECOM’s First Mile technology project is key within the group as we work to increase transparency and traceability to support business and regulatory needs with timely deadlines and as we deliver our digital product that can support ECOM’s ongoing sustainable commitments in the future across all commodities. This project is working in an agile environment with developing business needs as the regulation changes and new pressures and requirements become known over the short and medium term.

The Role

The Commodities Business Analyst will work within the larger global Transformation Team and will provide a commodity/business focus to assess, report and assist with the deployment of the First Mile product in the different businesses within the Group in different origin countries.

This role is based on London and has a global scope, working with our different businesses analysing from a commodities/business perspective by spending time in the different origins to understand their business and be able to record and analyse current ways of working to the point of implementation and post implementation analysis.

The work will involve providing analysis, guidance and help provide solutions within this project which is key both to our clients and ways of working for the future.

Skills & Experience

We are looking for individuals with a minimum of 2 years experience as a BA within a project based role ideally in a commodities or supply chain environment. You will hold a business management or related degree or have equivalent experience and knowledge of BA practices within a multi entity global company.

Ability to work both independently and part of a global team, you will be proactive and have excellent communication, reporting and analysis skills.

The role will involve some travel to our origins to work with our teams to understand their business needs and challenges to allow us to implement a business focused solution.