Career opportunities

We have a variety of Internship, Graduate, Entry Level and Junior Trader opportunities available in several regional locations.

Through a network of 81 offices in 54 countries we source, store, blend and deliver essential raw materials and commodities to clients around the world. Commodities include crude oil and petroleum products, non-ferrous concentrates, refined metals and coal.  In 2011, we traded 110.7million tonnes of oil and petroleum products and shipped 26.7million tonnes of non-ferrous and bulk commodities. We operate responsibly, adding real value for our clients, our stakeholders and our shareholders. Founded in 1993, the company is owned by its founding shareholders and senior management. It has achieved substantial growth in recent years, growing turnover from USD18 billion in 2004 to USD122 billion in 2011. 

Our 'Future Talent' development programmes have been designed to identify and develop the strongest candidates with the highest potential, providing immediate and thorough exposure to some of the most exciting, interesting and successful trading and financing strategies on the global market coupled with the support and training that is required to flourish.  The environment is highly demanding and candidates who approach the learning process with real passion and commitment will quickly see the benefits of gaining an established foundation from which to catapult their career.

About Oil and its derivatives

A successful career in physical trading requires a comprehensive appreciation of the entire trade process, from the exposures associated with trading barrels in global markets, to the financing required to leverage a deal, to the operational logistics of managing a fleet of vessels.

Our ‘Future Talent’ development programmes have been designed to identify and develop the strongest candidates with the highest potential, providing immediate and thorough exposure to some of the most exciting, interesting and successful trading strategies on the global market coupled with the support and training that is required to flourish.  The environment is highly demanding and candidates who approach the learning process with real passion and commitment will quickly see the benefits of gaining an established foundation from which to catapult their career.

About Metals, Minerals and Bulk

A successful career in physical trading requires a long term commitment to all the elements of the production and trading process as well as a keen interest in this truly exciting and dynamic industry. Trafigura, with its head office for metals and minerals in Lucerne, Switzerland, has grown in all areas of the supply chain and recently entered into the coal, iron ore, cobalt and nickel markets to complement its existing raw material trading activities in copper, alumina, lead and zinc, as well as refined metals.

Our Lima, Shanghai and Mumbai offices are receiving our main focus for business growth today as they serve the key Latin American, Chinese and Indian markets. As a consequence, we actively encourage candidates from these countries, in particular those who are studying overseas and wishing to work in one of our offices around the globe, to contact us. We offer an “on-the-job” training programme designed to train dedicated and highly skilled candidates in a head office environment before being relocated to field offices to take up challenging positions.

Our “Future Talent” opportunities are designed to develop the strongest candidates with the highest potential and provide development programmes tailored to their abilities and personal aims. The environment is highly demanding and candidates who approach the learning process with real passion and decisiveness will quickly see the benefits of gaining an established foundation from which to catapult their career.

About Technology opportunities

Trafigura is on a multi-year redevelopment of its technology environment which provides sophisticated trading and risk management systems across our oil, refined metals, concentrates and hedge fund businesses. The technology set currently includes Oracle, SQL Server, Scala, Java, Erlang, C# and F# running on a mixture of Windows and Linux.  We practice agile methodologies and particularly value a very close relationship between technologists and business users in order to meet the needs of this fast moving, international commodities trading business.