Commodities Consultant; Fractional

Euro Com Trading Consultant is seeking multiple (2+) experienced Commodity Derivatives Consultants to support a European commodity derivatives project. This is a part-time contract engagement (3–5 days per week) for an initial 6–8 weeks, starting ASAP, with potential extension into the new year. The work is primarily remote (WFH) with occasional travel within Europe as needed; business travel costs are covered.

You will join a fast-moving delivery team supporting front-to-back commodity derivatives work across process, technology, people/change, and data. This is a techno-functional role (not purely functional or purely technical): you will translate business needs into executable delivery, produce clear artifacts, support implementation and testing activities, and help stakeholders make progress toward year-end project goals under time pressure and ambiguity.

• Deliver front-to-back project support across commodity derivatives lifecycle processes, spanning business analysis through delivery execution and stakeholder alignment.
• Elicit, structure, and document requirements in ambiguous environments, producing clear outputs (workflows, user stories, acceptance criteria, decision logs).
• Map current-state and target-state processes, identifying gaps, dependencies, and pragmatic options to meet year-end milestones.
• Support techno-functional delivery activities, coordinating between business stakeholders and delivery resources to ensure workable solutions and timely decisions.
• Drive data and analysis tasks needed for delivery (e.g., issue triage, reconciliations support, exception analysis, reporting inputs) with a structured, hypothesis-driven approach.
• Contribute to testing and rollout readiness, including UAT planning/support, defect triage, retest coordination, and sign-off support.
• Identify and communicate risks, controls considerations, and delivery trade-offs clearly, escalating early and proposing actionable mitigations.
• Collaborate closely with the day-to-day lead (senior trading SME/consultant) and maintain proactive, credible communication with stakeholders.

• Consulting experience with evidence of structured delivery on complex projects (requirements to implementation/testing support).
• Project delivery experience in commodity trading and/or commodity derivatives environments.
• Strong understanding of commodity trading concepts and front-to-back workflows (end-to-end exposure across the lifecycle).
• Techno-functional capability: ability to operate across business process, data/analysis, and delivery execution rather than specializing in only one area.
• Excellent listening and communication skills, including the ability to work credibly with senior stakeholders and drive clarity from ambiguity.
• Strong analytical skills and disciplined problem-solving approach; able to prioritize and deliver under tight timelines.
• Professional working proficiency in English.

• Cross-commodity derivatives exposure across multiple products/markets and lifecycle touchpoints.
• Experience working in regulated environments and/or with risk and controls considerations in trading contexts.
• Experience supporting change management elements (people/process adoption) alongside technology and data work.

• First days:
  Builds trust quickly through strong listening, structured thinking, and clear communication; produces tangible outputs (notes, process maps, requirement artifacts, analysis) and integrates smoothly with the senior trading lead.
• Weeks 1–8:
  Drives meaningful progress toward…