Role Summary
The two-year Graduate Program provides recent graduates with hands-on experience across a wide range of front, middle, and back-office functions, contributing to projects that support operations, financial activities, client engagement, and regulatory responsibilities. Depending on placement, participants may assist with audits, reporting, compliance, financial transactions, client onboarding, technology, risk management, trade execution, prime brokerage, and client services. In addition to practical experience, the program emphasizes professional development, offering exposure to industry practices, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration alongside experienced professionals.
Graduates are expected to start no later than September 2026.
Overview of Marex and Department Description
Diversified. Resilient. Dynamic.
Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics. For more information visit www.marex.com.
The Agriculture Sales Department at Marex supports the firm’s capital markets activities by executing listed derivatives trades across agricultural futures and options markets for a broad client base. The department focuses on client trade execution while collaborating across the firm to deliver integrated coverage, particularly alongside metals and energy teams. This department not only drives execution‑led revenue but also establishes standards for client coverage, market insight, and cross‑business collaboration, reinforcing Marex’s commercial focus and global market presence.
Purpose of Role
The Agriculture Sales Analyst is responsible for supporting the Agriculture sales effort by expanding client coverage and promoting Marex’s execution capabilities across agricultural derivatives markets. This role will focus on proactive client outreach, relationship development, and collaboration with internal teams to identify trading opportunities with both new and existing clients.
In today’s fast‑paced and competitive derivatives markets, consistent client engagement and strong market awareness are essential to driving execution activity. By combining outbound networking with coordination across internal partners, the Agriculture Team supports growth in trading activity across commercial, institutional, and hedge fund clients.
Responsibilities:
- Support client acquisition and market coverage efforts through targeted outreach and professional networking activities.
- Identify and engage portfolio managers, traders, and commercial participants, supporting expansion across institutional and major commercial client segments.
- Collaborate closely with internal partners, including Prime Brokerage, Marex Solutions, and other desks, to uncover execution opportunities within existing relationships.
- Support the distribution of fundamental and technical research, market color, and reports, helping drive client engagement and trading activity.
- Work closely with senior team members, supporting regional growth initiatives and learning established approaches to client development within the Agriculture business.
- Stay informed on regulatory developments and industry standards and best practices.
- Ensuring compliance with the company’s regulatory requirements under the SEC, FINRA, NFA, CFTC and other applicable exchanges and regulatory bodies.
- 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 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, Skills and Experience
Competencies:
• Adaptability & Resilience – Thrives under pressure and dynamic environments.
• Analytical & Detail-Oriented – Demonstrates curiosity, precision, and problem-solving.
• Collaboration & Relationship-Building – Drives teamwork and stakeholder engagement.
• Communication & Influence – Conveys ideas clearly and builds consensus.
• Technical & Organizational Skills – Applies technology effectively and manages priorities.
Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a related field required.
• Genuine interest in one or more of the program’s departmental tracks.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship, including, but not limited to, F-1, J-1, and M-1 visa holders, as well as individuals on CPT or OPT.
Company Values
Acting as a role model for the values of the Company:
Be collaborative - by working together across the organization, 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.
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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's or master's degree in a related field
- Legally authorized to work in the United States without need for current or future sponsorship (includes F-1, J-1, M-1 visa holders, CPT, OPT)
- Recent graduate able to start no later than September 2026
- Genuine interest in one or more of the program's departmental tracks
- Strong communication, collaboration, analytical, and organizational skills
What We Do
We are a diversified global financial services platform, connecting clients to global energy, metals, agricultural and financial markets. Across our businesses we provide critical high value-add services in Market Making, Execution and Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions, Price Discovery and Data & Advisory. We have a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 38 million trades and clearing over 193 million contracts in 2021. 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. Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. Headquartered in London with 22 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,100 employees across Europe, Asia and America. State-of-the-art electronic and voice broking services facilitate all types of trading strategies. This is backed by decades of experience, with Marex emphasising intellectual knowledge and insight, alongside access to extensive data sets and the latest analytical tools. In addition to its core operations, Marex's scale and expertise in commodity derivatives, as well as physical products, has enabled it to respond to client demand and offer services for financial futures & options and foreign exchange.
