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Sales trader carbon allowances market eastern Europe

Posted 26 Mar 2024
Work experience
1 to 2 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required language
English (Fluent)

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Sales trader carbon allowances market eastern Europe

Amsterdam

Fulltime

Job description

Are you commercial driven and eager to learn? Do you like to travel and do you have already some sales experience? Does closing deals make you hungry for more?

As a Sales Trader Carbon Compensation Certificates within AFS Energy you will become a key member of a team of highly motivated and professional colleagues who will guide you from the beginning onwards. You create your own business: first you will build and expand your network of companies of buyers and sellers. The ETEI desk, part of AFS Group, is responsible for the brokering , sales trading and execution of (renewable) energy instruments traded in regulated markets and exchanges. The products under its mandate are EUAs, other certificates under the EU-ETS and Energy derivatives (futures and options on power, fuels, gas and coal). We are constantly expanding our product portfolio, your job will be corporate sales!

While using your market knowledge, trade ideas and market intelligence, you will build a client base and help those clients to manage their EU ETS risk and transition to low carbon production.

Competencies and qualifications

We are looking for a multi-lingual Medior Sales Trader Carbon Allowances / EUAs. For this we expect you:

  • To at least have a Bachelor / Master degree or thinking level
  • To be fluent in English and one or more of languages spoken in Eastern Europe / Balkan region
  • Experience in sales – cold calling, holding meetings with senior level executives and converting leads into paying customers
  • To at least have one-year’s experience in EUAs, EU-ETS, Carbon Allowances
  • You are eager and curious to learn. You are also eager to travel and meet your clients in person
  • To be pro-active and not afraid to pick up the phone. You will continue to find new brokerage or deal structuring opportunities for your clients
  • To be a good negotiator, who works hard and lives by the motto: “never give up”
  • To be a team player and thrive under pressure

The AFS Energy department

AFS Energy is always on a mission to make ideas, products and opportunities a great success. The Energy team consists of a group of ambitious and highly motivated analysts and Sales Traders that are continuously looking for new products, markets, deal opportunities and advisory services to support our clients in the best possible way. We have a nose for creating products and solutions that will add value to companies all around Europe involved in renewable energy; and we are proud of it!

As a Sales Trader you can expect a team that motivates you to be the best. We provide you with various courses and training sessions with your peers in order to make you the best Sales Trader you could be.

What we offer

We’ll promise you a job that is never boring and ask for your full commitment in return.

  • Working in an awesome, ambitious and driven high performing team
  • Energetic and friendly colleagues from all over the world
  • A versatile full-time position in a fast growing and professional organization
  • One of the most interesting work environments in Amsterdam, the old trading floor of the historical Amsterdam Stock Exchange
  • Competitive remuneration and training possibilities
  • 27 holidays per calendar year
  • NS Business card (depending on your residence)
  • Free inhouse fitness
  • A variety of activities with the team

AFS Group is active as a solution provider in Renewable Energy, Derivatives, Fixed Income and Interest Rates products. Are you highly interested in the Renewable, Financial and/or Capital Markets and would you like to support and advice clients with your knowledge? Working at AFS means hard work, ambition and effort to achieve anything. We help you to be successful in your career.

Finance & Banking
Amsterdam
Active in 4 countries
100 employees
70% men - 30% women
Average age is 30 years

What employees are saying

Fabio Pullara

Sales Trader Energy Desk

Fabio Pullara

My name is Fabio (Italian, 29) and I am a Sales Trader at AFS Energy.
I love working in a dynamic and international environment where everyday feels like a new adventure, I learn something new and I never get bored. The renewable energy is booming these years.

Sander Paijmans

Junior Broker Fixed Income (former trainee)

Sander Paijmans

Via last years AFS Group Traineeship I've learned a lot about all the different departments and possibilities within AFS. The Traineeship combined theory and practical skills and I've worked closely with other trainees. My choice for AFS Group is well motivated because of all the insights I've had.