JA Coffee is looking for an experienced Green Coffee Risk Manager to support the management of our physical coffee positions, futures exposure, foreign exchange risk, and trading margins.

We are looking for someone with direct experience in the green coffee trade who understands how physical coffee contracts interact with the futures market and is comfortable monitoring and managing risk across a coffee trading book.

The right person will be familiar with the day-to-day realities of green coffee trading, including physical positions, futures, fixations, differentials, market exposure, and margin management, and will work closely with our sourcing, sales, finance, and management teams.

Responsibilities

- Monitor and manage JA Coffee’s overall green coffee market exposure, including physical, futures, and FX positions
- Maintain an accurate view of long and short positions, open purchase and sales contracts, inventory, and forward commitments
- Manage and reconcile physical coffee and futures positions, including hedges, fixations, differentials, contract months, and rolls
- Identify and address over-hedged, under-hedged, and unhedged exposure
- Monitor mark-to-market, hedge performance, trading margins, and basis risk
- Support the execution and reconciliation of futures and other hedging transactions in line with company risk policies
- Monitor ICE Coffee C futures, FX markets, and relevant market developments that may impact coffee prices and margins
- Conduct ongoing coffee market analysis, incorporating crop developments, weather, origin differentials, currencies,



inventories, exports, logistics, and macroeconomic factors
- Help build and maintain a centralized coffee risk and market intelligence platform bringing together positions, contracts, inventory, futures, FX, and key market data
- Prepare clear daily and weekly risk, exposure, and market reports for management
- Work closely with sourcing, sales, finance, and management to support purchasing, selling, pricing, and hedging decisions
- Help develop and strengthen JA Coffee’s risk management framework, controls, limits, and reporting tools

Qualifications

- 4+ years of experience in green coffee trading, commodity risk, hedging, or a closely related role
- Direct experience working with the physical green coffee market
- Strong understanding of ICE Coffee C futures
- Practical knowledge of long and short positions, differentials, fixations, basis risk, hedge coverage, and mark-to-market
- Experience working with green coffee purchase and sales contracts
- Strong analytical and reconciliation skills
- Advanced Excel skills
- Experience with FX exposure or currency hedging is an asset
- Strong attention to detail and sound judgment
- Comfortable working across sourcing, sales, finance, and management
- English proficiency required, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Background

Experience with a green coffee exporter, importer, trading house, multinational coffee company, cooperative with an established trading operation, or commodity trading firm with direct coffee exposure.

📌 Green Coffee Risk Manager (Bogotá)
🏢 JA Coffee
📍 Bogotá