As Senior Operations Specialist — Battery Materials, you will be a core member of the Operations team, playing a key role in supporting WMC’s growing battery materials portfolio. You will work closely with the Battery Materials commercial team and with internal functions including Legal, Finance, and IT. The position offers broad exposure to high-value, complex transactions in a fast-paced, international, and innovative environment. In this role you support WMC’s continued growth in battery materials by ensuring that all deliveries are executed on time and in strict alignment with commercial contracts.
At the heart of the global energy transition, WMC helps ensure the world has reliable access to the raw materials needed for a cleaner and more sustainable future. As an independent intermediary, WMC provides long-term supply, offtake, marketing, financing, and portfolio management solutions in both nuclear fuel and battery materials, complemented by proprietary asset development activities.
WMC leverages its global network, market knowledge, and financial engineering capability to connect upstream production capacity of energy transition materials with downstream demand, helping to build a cleaner future. Founded in 2016, WMC is a privately-owned company headquartered in Amsterdam, with offices in Zug, Denver, and Hong Kong.
WMC collaborates with a broad group of partners, including major power utilities, mining companies, and industrial clients worldwide, and acts as a technical advisor to Sprott’s physical uranium and copper trusts.
As a diverse team representing more than a dozen nationalities across eight countries, we believe in operational excellence, collaboration and fostering inclusive, well-run environments where our people can flourish.
Support the commercial team during the contract drafting phase by providing recommendations on contract language that address identified supply chain risks.
Plan, optimise, and execute physical deliveries across the full logistics chain — from suppliers through warehouses to receivers.
Manage day-to-day relationships with forwarding companies, warehouses and inspection agencies ensuring performance and compliance.
Manage export letters of credit: oversee timely issuance by customers, verify that wording is in compliance with contract terms, and ensure timely presentation of shipping documents.
Maintain accurate inventory records, ensure all shipping documentation meets the company’s standards, and file records in the company’s archiving system in a timely manner.
Collaborate with the IT team on identified improvement opportunities and participate in ad hoc system enhancement projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (logistics, supply chain, business, international trade, or similar).
• Minimum two years of experience in commodity operations, logistics, warehousing, or customer service.
• Demonstrated experience with letters of credit.
• Experience with container shipping is an advantage.
• Strong interpersonal and customer service skills, with the ability to build effective relationships and manage challenging situations.
• Self-starter with sound analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Proven ability to make sound decisions under pressure.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.
• A dynamic, entrepreneurial environment at the forefront of the global energy transition.
• Exposure to complex, high-value international transactions from day one.
• Close collaboration with senior commercial and operational professionals.
• Competitive compensation and benefits, commensurate with experience.
• A central Amsterdam office location.
Please submit your resume via our website. Interviews will be held on a rolling basis.
We thank all candidates for applying; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
For questions concerning the position, please email:
people@wmcgroup.com
