Responsibilities
- Organize and coordinate the regional research function, collaborating with trading and research teams across the region and in Geneva.
- Assist the research team in enhancing data and analysis for the Milds coffee balance sheet.
- Create balance sheets for coffee specifically for the Milds region.
- Maintain hedge matrices that track the flow of flat price risk from farmers to hedgers.
- Validate the accuracy of cost of production estimates and model historical time series accordingly.
- Develop forecasting models for coffee consumption, exports, production, and farmer behavior.
- Optimize existing processes for data maintenance and updates.
- Propose trading recommendations based on analysis of stocks-to-use ratios, net supply and demand balances, and other factors.
- Identify significant correlations between balance sheet changes and relevant price time series.
- Serve as the lead analyst for the Milds complex, including proposing strategies based on supply and demand outlooks, contributing to strategy debates, formulating conclusions, and reviewing strategy implementation.