As an Execution Trader, you'll execute trades, manage broker relationships, provide market insights, and drive execution improvements. You'll work closely with traders and engineers in a fast-paced trading environment.
At IMC, we operate in some of the most competitive and fast-paced markets in the world. As an Execution Trader on our Brazil team in Amsterdam, you'll step into a highly visible, high-ownership role directly shaping our performance in off-screen markets. You'll be the primary point of contact for key brokers and counterparties, representing the team externally and driving strong execution outcomes.
This is a unique opportunity for someone entrepreneurial, proactive, and commercially minded. You'll take full responsibility for the execution landscape in this market, identifying opportunities, optimizing flow, and elevating our execution quality. As our coverage expands, you'll be at the center of it: managing multiple requests simultaneously, staying on top of market nuance, and ensuring we capture and maximize every opportunity.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Your Skills and Experience
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
This is a unique opportunity for someone entrepreneurial, proactive, and commercially minded. You'll take full responsibility for the execution landscape in this market, identifying opportunities, optimizing flow, and elevating our execution quality. As our coverage expands, you'll be at the center of it: managing multiple requests simultaneously, staying on top of market nuance, and ensuring we capture and maximize every opportunity.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Execute trades with a focus on price, speed, liquidity, and market impact
- Maintain strong broker connectivity and efficiently manage multiple off-screen requests
- Provide real-time flow colour, actionable insights, and market context to support trader decision-making
- Gather, interpret, and organize market information to capture flow opportunities and support pricing improvements
- Manage broker chats and external communication channels with clarity and urgency
- Work with traders and engineers to refine execution logic, tools, and system performance
- Drive projects related to counterparty analysis, data quality, and broker relationship management
- Report execution results, observations, and insights to internal stakeholders
- Review historical trade data to assess execution quality and identify areas for improvement
Your Skills and Experience
- 2-5+ years of experience in a similar execution or trading role at a proprietary trading firm, hedge fund, or leading bank
- Experience with options markets
- Experience with Brazilian markets is a plus, but not required
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear and timely market updates
- Strong attention to detail and situational awareness in fast-moving environments
- Stress resilience and a drive for ownership and continuous improvement
- Strong numerical and analytical skills to make quick, data-driven decisions
- Technical fluency (e.g. Python, SQL) to analyze data and collaborate effectively with quants and engineers
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Top Skills
Python
SQL
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