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Specialist hires across a growing commodities business

Trading

Quant Research

Structuring

Challenge

A relationship-led, phone-first approach built on deeper conversations and rigorous insight resulting in finding, understanding and engaging the right talent.

Solution

A relationship-led, phone-first approach built on deeper conversations and rigorous insight resulting in finding, understanding and engaging the right talent.

Results

A relationship-led, phone-first approach built on deeper conversations and rigorous insight resulting in finding, understanding and engaging the right talent.

Delivering an Edge in commodity talent.

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What we do

Search. Intelligence. Advisory.

Search

We map the market others can’t see; uncovering talent beyond LinkedIn and connecting with firms at every stage of growth.

Intelligence

Bespoke intelligence on both sides of every hire, matched on motive as much as on merit.

Advisory

Search and intelligence are only the beginning. We turn insight into understanding, and understanding into action.

Headhunting and intelligence partner for global commodity trading markets.

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Our Edge

Seeing beyond the obvious: a live 360° view of talent, understanding the motives behind every hire, and turning intelligence into action.

Our Way

A relationship-led, phone-first approach built on deeper conversations and rigorous insight resulting in finding, understanding and engaging the right talent.

Markets we serve

One network. Five commodities.

Power & Renewables

Connecting the people and businesses shaping the future of power and renewables.

Natural Gas & LNG

Physical and financial gas talent, matched to desks built around volatility and opportunity.

Oil & Products

From crude to cargo, insight and access across the global oil markets.

Environmental Markets

Bringing together the talent at the forefront of carbon, emissions and environmental commodities.

Metals

Where metals, markets and the people shaping industry meet.

Whether you're building a desk or building a career, the conversation starts here.

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Our reach spans two of the world's most active commodity trading regions, with local market knowledge on both sides of the Atlantic.

North America

200+

Placements across US & Canadian desks

11y

Active in the North American market

EUROPE

150+

Placements across UK & European desks

13y

Active in the UK & European market

Case studies

What the Edge looks like
in practice.

A range of searches across power, gas, oil, metals and environmental markets. From single off-market hires to full market entries.
Team meeting around a boardroom table

Standing up a North American trading operation

  • Trading
  • Analytics
  • Risk

Advisory and talent mapping across North America to attract senior traders and analysts for a ground-up build-out.

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A prestigious European trading merchant was entering the North American market and needed to build its local trading operation from the ground up, including attracting hard to find experienced talent in the power trading space.
We provided advisory and market intelligence, talent mapping across North America, identifying and attracting senior Traders and Analysts to support the firm's market entry and build-out.
Natural gas pipeline at sunset

Specialist hires across a growing commodities business

  • Trading
  • Quant Research
  • Structuring

Targeted searches for talent combining deep market expertise, quantitative skills and complex structuring experience.

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A leading global trading fund was expanding its commodities business and needed to identify highly specialised talent across North American Gas & Power, including Traders, Originators, Quants and Structurers.
We conducted targeted searches across the commodities market, identifying candidates with a combination of deep market expertise, quantitative skills and experience in complex trading and structuring environments.