Base Metals Trader in London

Are you an experienced Director LME base metals trader? Our Commodity Trading Desk in London is seeking a driven trading professional to help shape its growth trajectory. If you bring deep trading expertise in the LME base metals markets – we would love to hear from you.

The Commodities Trading team sits in the Markets division, which is the organisational umbrella housing all of Rabobank's financial markets related activities. The team is the centre of excellence for the position management, risk taking, and pricing in the commodity derivatives markets for all Rabobank clients.

• Execute and manage trading activity and risk positioning across the base metals portfolio, ensuring alignment with the Bank's strategic objectives and risk framework.
• Provide liquidity and market‐making services to corporate and institutional metals clients, supporting their trading and hedging needs.
• Monitor and manage real‐time risk exposures, maintaining strict adherence to market, credit, and desk limits.
• Partner with quantitative and technology teams to enhance pricing capabilities, trading infrastructure, and automation.
• Leverage programming skills (Python, VBA) to support data analysis, improve operational efficiency, and assist with strategy evaluation.
• Ensure full compliance with UK and EU regulatory standards, as well as internal governance and control policies.
• Promptly escalate any risk or control concerns through appropriate channels.

• Solid trading experience within base metals on LME.
• Knowledge of option trading and non‐linear risk management.
• Strong understanding of market structure, pricing and liquidity dynamics.
• Experience in quoting and executing trades for clients.
• Ability to manage client relationships and tailor solutions to their needs.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and manage trading risk, with a strong understanding of market dynamics and impacts.
• Trusted, credible and has high integrity.
• Leads by example, collaborative, fosters a positive team culture and is someone others genuinely enjoy working with.

A career at Rabobank can offer insights into many areas. As well as having the opportunity to really see and understand the role of Financial Institutions in the Food & Agribusiness sector we are committed to providing our employees with the opportunities to develop their skills and progress their careers within the company. We work flexibly at Rabobank, combining the benefits of working at the London office and working from home, allowing the best of both worlds to come together. Our expectation is that all UK Markets employees work a minimum of 60% (3 days) of their working week in the London office.

• A competitive salary.
• A discretionary annual bonus.
• 28 days' holiday, plus the option to buy additional days.
• Company pension scheme plus other financial benefit schemes.
• Private medical insurance, regular health screening checks plus other health benefits.
• A range of family friendly policies and lifestyle benefits.
• Salary sacrifice schemes – cycle to work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice.
• Plus, many more incentives.

As well as helping our clients to grow their businesses, we are fully committed to growing our people to make them the best that they can be. We embrace differences and strive to create a truly inclusive work culture, based on trust and respect for all. A place where everyone can be themselves and bring their whole selves to work along with their unique experiences, background, and expertise. We strive to empower our people to focus on their wellbeing, by providing a range of resources that will enable them to flourish both in and outside of the workplace. Our ambition is to maintain sustainable, meaningful, and collaborative working environments so that our people understand how they contribute to our vision and overall mission, they can be healthy at work and bring the best version of themselves to our vibrant UK Branch community. We are an equal opportunities recruiter.

Should you require any additional support at any stage of the recruitment process due to a disability or health condition, or if you require any support or assistance due to any individual characteristics you may have, please do not hesitate to contact a member of the Talent Acquisition Team who will work with you to consider any adjustments, or support, which we can reasonably make or provide.

Deadline for application: 1st March 2026 (due to high volume of applications this advert may close prior to the posted close date). Applications via LinkedIn message or email will not be reviewed, please apply via the link.

For more information or if you would like this advert in a different format please contact the Talent Acquisition Team on fm.uk.london.recruitment@rabobank.com