Business Manager

As a Business Manager, you will help drive and coordinate the daily operations and long-term growth of Engelhart’s financial and physical commodities businesses in Europe. The products include European gas and power, renewables, dry bulk freight, and financial commodities trading. The role encompasses a broad and evolving remit with varying levels of complexity, requiring you to lead cross-functional initiatives and address complex business challenges across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Act as a key interface between trading desks and support functions, ensuring alignment and efficient delivery of initiatives; Ensure robustness and continuous improvement of processes, controls, and governance frameworks; Apply deep understanding of systems and processes to identify inefficiencies and implement improvements; Own and drive coordination of business controls and approvals, ensuring timely and effective outcomes; Drive business planning, performance monitoring, and cost analysis, providing actionable insights to senior management; Lead resolution of complex operational challenges across desks, geographies and functions

Requirements

A strong academic background, educated to degree level or equivalent; At least 7-10 years of relevant experience within commodities or energy trading, of which at least 5 years must have been in business management; Solid experience of European power and gas; Experience working cross-functionally with front office and support functions, with exposure to senior stakeholders; Demonstrable experience in communicating clearly and effectively (written and verbally), particularly with PowerPoint; Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Copilot; Fluent English language skills are mandatory

Nice to have

Able to thrive in a fast-paced, unstructured trading environment; Resilient under pressure, able to remain calm and effective when faced with multiple requests or demands at the same time; Able to work accurately at the lowest level of detail, while also being able to succinctly summarise key messages for senior management; Able to effectively prioritise tasks and consistently deliver high quality work, with the ability to rapidly re-prioritise if needed without losing track of lower priority items; A highly analytical, logical and detail-oriented working style; Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage in effective, direct communication across different levels of seniority with colleagues globally; Willing to act consistently as a team player, willing to get stuck into tasks outside of usual remit and help do everything necessary to make the business operate successfully; Able to adapt skillset to varying tasks, demonstrate flexibility and assimilate knowledge quickly; Renewables experience preferred

Benefits

Competitive compensation and participation in Engelhart’s discretionary bonus plan; 25 days of annual holiday entitlement, excluding Swiss public holidays; Robust benefits package including generous healthcare, pension and insurance packages, as well supplemental benefits partially subsidised by the Company; Eligibility to receive external and internal training in accordance with our Training & Development Policy