Job Description

About Marex

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 2,300 employees across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

This role sits within the Agricultural Trading department, supporting the development of quantitative trading strategies and analytical capabilities across the Agricultural business.

The Agricultural Trading department combines deep discretionary market expertise with modern quantitative research, technology and data science to provide liquidity, manage risk and identify trading opportunities across global agricultural markets. The desk has direct access to the major agricultural futures and options exchanges and is investing in the continued expansion of its systematic trading capabilities through the application of statistical modelling, alternative datasets, automation and advanced analytics.

For more information visit https://www.marex.com/

An analytical, commercially minded and proactive quantitative professional with experience applying statistical and data-driven techniques within financial markets. Joining a front-office trading team that combines discretionary market expertise with systematic research and alternative datasets, the successful candidate will play a key role in expanding the Agricultural Trading desk's quantitative capabilities through the development of trading strategies, advanced research methodologies and scalable analytical tools. The role provides the opportunity to shape the desk's quantitative direction while collaborating closely with Trading, Research and Technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead quantitative research initiatives that combine market, fundamental and alternative datasets to generate differentiated trading insights and systematic investment strategies.
• Develop, validate and enhance systematic trading strategies using market, fundamental and alternative datasets.
• Research and integrate alternative data sources, including satellite imagery and geospatial datasets, into trading strategies where appropriate.
• Build scalable research tools, dashboards and analytical infrastructure to improve trading performance and research productivity.
• Partner with discretionary traders to enhance existing strategies through advanced statistical analysis and quantitative modelling.
• Work closely with Research to develop quantitative insights and market analytics that enhances the Agricultural product offering.
• 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
• Carrying out regulatory activities under the Marex Financial trading books
• Liaising with clients in US, UK and EEA clients include banks, hedge funds, market makers, fund managers, institutionals, trading houses and other trading boutiques.
• 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.

Competencies, Skills and Experience

Competencies

• Strong quantitative and analytical mindset.
• Naturally curious with a passion for financial markets and systematic research.
• Demonstrates ownership of research initiatives from idea generation through implementation.
• Able to communicate complex quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Innovative thinker who actively explores new datasets and research methodologies.
• A collaborative team player, that is approachable, self-efficient and influences a positive work environment
• 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

• 1–3 years' experience in quantitative research, quantitative trading or systematic strategy development.
• Strong Python programming skills and experience building research pipelines.
• Solid understanding of statistics, probability, time series analysis and machine learning techniques relevant to financial markets.
• Experience designing rigorous back testing and model validation frameworks.
• Experience working with large structured and unstructured datasets.
• Exposure to alternative datasets, including satellite imagery, weather or geospatial data, would be advantageous.
• Knowledge of futures, options and commodity markets is desirable.
• Experience developing dashboards and analytical tools using modern data visualisation technologies.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with version control and collaborative software development practices.

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

Company Values

Be collaborative
- by working together across the organisation, we foster teamwork, can better respond to challenges and successfully deliver for our clients

Act with integrity
- we pride ourselves on our honesty and high ethical standards. We apply these values when working with all our clients, colleagues and other stakeholders

Be adaptable and entrepreneurial
- we embrace change as markets evolve to constantly increase our efficiency and create innovative solutions for our clients. We are interested in the world around us and inquisitive about understanding the challenges and opportunities our clients face.

Be respectful
– how we treat each other, and our clients says everything about who we are. We always act respectfully and treat people fairly in everything we do.

Nurture talent – we aim to grow our own talent and make Marex the place ambitious, hardworking and talented people choose to build their career. This means giving and taking stretch opportunities, taking risks, and committing to career development and support – for ourselves, and our teams.

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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