Graduate Trainee, Solutions Business Management

A Graduate Trainee in Business Management role at Marex focused on supporting strategic initiatives, improving processes, and driving business growth across operations, trading, and governance teams.

Marex Overview 

Marex Group plc (NASDAQ: MRX) is a diversified global financial services platform providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients across energy, commodities and financial markets. The group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: clearing, agency and execution, market making, and hedging and investment solutions.

It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, with access to 60 exchanges. The group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers. With more than 40 offices worldwide, the group has over 2,400 employees across Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.

Role Summary

As a Graduate Trainee in Business Management, you will gain exposure to a wide range of projects and activities that support the rapid growth of our business. You will be part of delivering new business initiatives in our COO team and drive improvements in our processes in our Trade Origination team.

Working alongside product and subject matter experts across the business you will develop your business and product knowledge, and key skills for your future career with Marex.

You will also be part of the broader Marex Graduate Programme, where you will have the opportunity to expand your business knowledge, network and connect with other Graduates from across the Marex business.

Overall Responsibilities

As a Graduate Trainee in Business Management, you will start by learning the fundamentals on the job and build your experience over time so that you can take on the following responsibilities:

Chief Operating Office (COO)

Our COO team in Marex Solutions plays a crucial role in supporting the delivery of new business initiatives for the business. This role relies on building and leveraging relationships across multiple departments to deliver projects and activities that support business growth and optimisation.

The COO team is broken down into the following 4 pillars, all reporting into the Chief Strategist and Operating Officer for Marex Solutions:

• Sales – delivering new business initiatives, enhancing MI, supporting regulatory initiatives an driving change across the business

• Trading and Technology – delivering new platforms for Marex Solutions, improving our internal infrastructure from risk management to client facing platforms

• Trade Origination – driving improvement in our processes and documentation to support the rapid growth of our business 

• Governance and Strategy – supporting growth by ensuring the business complies with and is up to speed with the latest regulatory initiatives, and supporting the business with new strategic initiatives.

Within this role you will: 

• Be part of a team to deliver new business initiatives which will include generating ideas on how to improve the management of new business initiatives, establishing project plans and gathering input from departments across the business. 

• Creating, reviewing and improving existing MI (Management Information) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) to effectively monitor and steer the business 

• Optimise business performance through analysing costs and budgets to identify opportunities for cost rationalisation 

• Driving change for the Marex Solutions team by establishing new processes, reviewing existing ones and identifying enhancements 

• Supporting the assessment of existing platforms and delivering the IT strategy for the Marex Solutions team 

• Supporting regulatory initiatives/projects with the subject matter experts together with Legal and Compliance 

• Support the set-up of new products in the respective systems, developing your product knowledge 

• Grow your network and project management skills by working closely with support teams and the business to complete tasks and projects on schedule and clearly communicate progress 

• Gain an insight into automation by working with the respective teams to review manual structures and agree on automation priorities

Standard responsibilities for all roles 

• Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the FCA 

• Adhere to the operational risk framework for your role ensuring that all regulatory or company determined parameters are complied with. 

• Role model for demonstrating highest level standards of integrity and conduct and reflecting Company Values. 

• At all times complying with the FCA’s Code of Conduct /Marex’s Code of Conduct 

• To ensure that you are fully aware of and adhere to internal policies that relate to you, your role or any other activities for which you have any level of responsibility 

• To report any breaches of policy to Compliance and/ or your supervisor as required 

• To escalate risk events immediately 

• To provide input to risk management processes, as required.

The Company may require you to carry out other duties from time to time

Competencies

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• A collaborative team player, approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment

• Demonstrates curiosity

• Resilient in a challenging, fast-paced environment

• Excels at building relationships, networking and influencing others

• Strategic collaborator with insight and agility, able to anticipate future challenges, ensuring operational effectiveness

Skills and Experience

• *A 2:1 degree or equivalent, coupled with a strong academic track record

• Problem solving skills

• Strong Excel, Alteryx, VBA or Python skills as well as MS Office skills

• A meticulous eye for detail

• The ability to work effectively under pressure in a busy environment

• Knowledge of working in a regulated environment and of the risk and compliance requirements associated with this

Company Values

Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:

• Respect – Clients are at the heart of our business, with superior execution and superb client service the foundation of the firm. We respect our clients and always treat them fairly.

• Integrity – Doing business the right way is the only way. We hold ourselves to a high ethical standard in everything we do – our clients expect this and we demand it of ourselves.

• Collaborative – We work in teams – open and direct communication and the willingness to work hard and collaboratively are the basis for effective teamwork. Working well with others is necessary for us to succeed at what we do.

• Developing our People – Our people are the basis of our competitive advantage. We look to “grow our own” and make Marex Spectron the place ambitious, hardworking, talented people choose to build their careers.

• Adaptable and Nimble – Our size and flexibility is an advantage. We are big enough to support our client’s various needs, and adaptable and nimble enough to respond quickly to changing conditions or requirements. A non-bureaucratic, but well controlled environment fosters initiative as well as employee satisfaction.

Conduct Rules

You must:

• Act with integrity

• Act with due skill, care and diligence

• Be open and cooperative with the FCA, the PRA and other regulators

• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly

• Observe proper standard of market conduct

• Act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers