Trader Trainee - Lumber Sales

Responsibilities

• Learn the industry through our logistics team by expanding transportation networks and negotiating freight rates
• Possess prospecting, cold calling, and qualification skills to build your own book of business
• Identify market trends and generate new trading opportunities
• Build long-term client relationships by providing market insight and value
• Maintain real-time market knowledge to support pricing, risk, and margin decisions

Qualifications

• High-energy with a strong entrepreneurial mindset
• Comfortable with cold calling and relationship-based sales
• Competitive, ambitious, and motivated by results
• Strong in problem-solving, analytics, and basic math
• Confident communicator with strong interpersonal skills
• Able to prioritize and manage multiple moving parts
• Interested in running your own desk like a business
• Comfortable using Excel, Word, Google Docs, and similar tools