Senior Cross-Commodities Portfolio Manager - Fixed Income and Global Macro

Strategy: Cross-Commodity Investments | Discretionary

The Opportunity

Octavius Finance is proud to be working alongside a leading global asset manager to place an experienced Cross-Commodity Portfolio Manager within its investment team in Singapore.

This is an opportunity for an accomplished investment professional to play a key role in managing and developing commodity investment strategies within a large, sophisticated institutional investment platform.

The successful candidate will bring a strong track record in commodity portfolio management, combining deep fundamental market knowledge with quantitative techniques to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns across global commodity markets.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and develop cross-commodity investment strategies spanning energy, precious and industrial metals, agricultural commodities, and softs.
• Generate and implement investment ideas through a combination of fundamental research, quantitative techniques, and discretionary trading.
• Identify relative value, directional, and curve opportunities across commodity futures, options, swaps, and related derivatives.
• Take ownership of portfolio construction, position sizing, risk management, and investment performance.
• Analyze global supply-demand dynamics, physical market fundamentals, positioning, trade flows, and macroeconomic developments to identify investment opportunities.
• Develop and enhance analytical frameworks, and data-driven investment tools to support portfolio decisions.
• Collaborate with investment, research, and risk teams to refine strategies and contribute to the broader investment process.
• Continuously improve investment strategies, execution efficiency, and risk-adjusted portfolio outcomes.

Candidate Profile

• Significant experience in commodity trading or portfolio management, ideally gained within a leading asset manager, hedge fund, investment bank, commodity trading house, or institutional investment platform.
• Demonstrable track record of managing commodity risk and generating investment returns across multiple market environments.
• Broad cross-commodity expertise, with strong knowledge of several sectors including energy, metals, and agricultural commodities.
• Strong understanding of commodity derivatives, futures curves, calendar spreads, relative value strategies, and portfolio risk management.
• Experience combining fundamental commodity analysis with quantitative or technically driven investment approaches.
• Proven ability to independently identify, structure, execute, and manage investment opportunities.
• Strong analytical capabilities, with experience using Python, SQL, R, or other quantitative tools viewed favourably.
• Experience managing substantial investment allocations or building and scaling commodity investment strategies would be particularly attractive.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to articulate investment views and portfolio positioning to senior stakeholders.
• A degree in Finance, Economics, Mathematics, or a related discipline. Postgraduate qualifications are advantageous.

Why Consider This Opportunity

This position offers the opportunity to operate within aglobally recognized institutional investment platform, with access to significant resources, sophisticated investment infrastructure, and a long-term investment horizon.

The successful individual will have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully to cross-commodity investment decisions, develop innovative strategies, and work alongside experienced investment professionals in Singapore.

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