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The Risk Management department in Baar is looking for a Head of Product Risk to oversee the Product Risk function for Metals and Coal Marketing activities.

The Product Risk function requires diverse technical product knowledge to effectively deliver the independent control of commercial activities.

The Head of Product Risk will be responsible for the day-to-day management, development and deliverables of the Product Risk team, based in Baar (inc. daily controlling, reporting, valuations, new business and transformation).

As a representative of the Global Risk Leadership team, this role will contribute to driving performance and influencing best practice across people and change strategies.

The role holder will functionally report to the Metals and Coal CRO.

Key accountabilities

• Oversee and lead the management and development of the Product Risk team
• Maturing a culture of independent control and constructive challenge in a complex environment
• Responsible for enhancing and maturing the daily reporting, control framework and governance within Product Risk, promoting simplification and standardization across deliverables
• Direct the team through change and transformation challenges, supporting prioritisations while maintaining a focus on risk and controls initiatives to introduce structure and value-add
• Represent the function on broader strategic initiatives to ensure Product Risk requirements are represented and appropriately prioritised
• Balance stakeholder needs and expectations and develop a culture of cross-departmental collaboration
• Support the timely closure of internal and external audit points

Key Skills and Education

• University degree or equivalent in Economics, Mathematics or relevant subject matter

• 15 years of experience within a Product Control role or transferable area of expertise. Commodities experience is advantageous to the role
• Multi-year experience in managing and developing people
• Excellent organizational skills, project planning, time and change management across multiple departments, and delegation skills involving prioritizing and reprioritizing projects and managing projects of various size and complexity
• Strong ethos on value chain, process and control framework
• Effective communication skills (written and spoken English proficiency), including strong presentation skills

Benefits

• We are committed to providing benefits, which promote mental, physical, and financial well-being. From healthy meal options in our restaurants and bistros to free use of the in-house gym including sport classes with professional trainers.
• We reimburse public transport for commuting to work; alternatively, we offer free parking space.
• We provide tuition assistance for further education and training courses.
• We have a competitive parental leave policy. Our childcare benefits also include emergency childcare services and financial assistance towards daycare costs.
• Employees’ Swiss Pension 2nd pillar is fully paid by Glencore.

Who we are

Glencore is one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies and a major producer and marketer of more than 60 commodities that advance everyday life. Through a network of assets, customers and suppliers that spans the globe, we produce, process, recycle, source, market and distribute the commodities that support decarbonisation while meeting the energy needs of today.
With over 150,000 employees and contractors and a strong footprint in over 35 countries in both established and emerging regions for natural resources, our marketing and industrial activities are supported by a global network of more than 50 offices.

Glencore’s customers are industrial consumers, such as those in the automotive, steel, power generation, battery manufacturing and oil sectors. We also provide financing, logistics and other services to producers and consumers of commodities.
Glencore is proud to be a member of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights and the International Council on Mining and Metals. We are an active participant in the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative.

We will support the global effort to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement through our efforts to decarbonise our own operational footprint. We believe that we should take a holistic approach and have considered our commitment through the lens of our global industrial emissions. Against a restated 2019 baseline, we are targeting to reduce our Scope 1, 2 and 3 industrial emissions by 15% by the end of 2026, 25% by the end of 2030, 50% by the end of 2035 and we have an ambition to achieve net zero industrial emissions by the end of 2050, subject to a supportive policy environment. For more information see our 2024-2026 Climate Action Transition Plan and the About our emissions calculation and reporting section in our 2023 Annual Report, available on our website at glencore.com/publications.