Supervisor/Assistant Manager, Precious Metals Account Management

Objectives of the Position:

• To drive, identify and capitalize new business opportunities for our Platinum Group Metals (PGMs).
• To grow market share and achieve revenue growth within targeted industries in line with our Asset Backed Trading 5-year growth targets.
• To collaborate across our global Precious Metal Trading Services Unit.

Main Tasks

• Global Strategy Execution:
  • Understand market trends, technological advancements, and competitive activities to identify emerging opportunities and potential risks, and feed insights into the broader Commercial and Trading organization.
  • Learn all components of the business for future growth.
  • Enhance brand and service offering awareness and generate leads globally.
• Relationship Building & Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  • Foster new relationships with customers, focused on industrial demand applications (chemical, petroleum, glass, medical, electrical, jewelry), automotive manufacturers, and investment firms.
  • Present our PGM services to prospective clients in a compelling and professional manner, including representing the business at industry conferences, trade shows, and executive-level meetings.
  • Support front-office operations, including pricing, trade execution, credit management, contract preparation, and existing client support.
  • Work closely with internal teams (e.g., trading, commercial, operations, finance, marketing, legal) to ensure seamless execution of quoting and onboarding new customers.
  • Collaborate with global marketing analysts to develop target areas and applications to pursue new opportunities. 
• To travel up to 20% of the time, both domestic and globally.  

Minimum Education and Qualification Required for the Position

• Education: Bachelor’s Degree, majored in Finance, Mathematics, Chemistry or Engineering.
• Working Experience: 2 to 3 years’ sales experience in the PGM market.
• Technical & Professional Knowledge:
  • Understanding of the precious metals markets or chemical catalyst industry.
  • Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain strong relationships with customers/partners ranging from Fortune 500 companies to local independent enterprises.
  • Proven ability to develop winning strategies that deliver commercial results within a diverse, challenging, and competitive business climate will be a valued asset.
  • Robust analytical skills, solid organizational skills and outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Business segment knowledge: customer and market value chain.
  • Ability to identify, negotiate, and close new business opportunities.
  • A highly motivated and results-oriented strategic thinker.