Job description
Are you a proactive commercial talent ready to launch your career on the trading floor? AFS Energy is scaling up its Carbon Compliance desk and searching for an ambitious Sales Trader to forge new client partnerships across the EU ETS sector. In this role, your primary objective will be constructing a solid client base from scratch. If you thrive in a competitive environment, enjoy hitting targets, and are motivated by direct financial rewards, this challenge is for you.
The Role
- Client Acquisition: Drive portfolio growth by identifying prospects, executing direct phone outreach, networking at key international trade events, and arranging face-to-face commercial meetings.
- Onboarding & Execution: Guide new accounts onto our proprietary trading system (Viridian), generate active order flow, and execute compliant market transactions.
- Account Expansion: Maximize client lifetime value by pitching complementary solutions from our broader environmental product portfolio.
- Pipeline Management & Research: Maintain accurate sales activity within CRM systems while keeping a close eye on EU ETS market dynamics, regulatory changes, and competitive intelligence.
What We Expect
- Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent academic level.
- Experience: 0-3 years of commercial track record (e.g., Sales Trading, Brokering, or Business Development). A strong inclination toward direct sales and outbound outreach is essential.
- Languages: Full professional proficiency in English and Greek.
- Mindset: High energy, resilient, and self-driven. You embrace commercial targets and take pride in closing business deals.
What We Offer
- A unique workplace on the Stock Exchange floor.
- Working in an awesome, internationally diverse, continuously growing, and highly driven team.
- An organization where there is room for your refreshing ideas and to be entrepreneurial.
- Focus on your personal and professional growth with support through trainings, coaching and development sessions.
- Performance-based bonus scheme.
- The opportunity to broaden your network and peak your sales by attending (inter)national events and congresses.
- 27 days off per year.
- Depending on where you live, an NS business card or bike lease options.
- Free in-house gym.
Application Process
1st Round: Introductory interview with our Recruitment team.
2nd Round: In-depth interview with Jef Geelen (Director Carbon Compliance Markets).
We recruit all AFS team members directly. Unsolicited profiles sent by external recruitment agencies will be processed without obligation, and candidates may be contacted directly.
Pay & benefits
About this role
About AFS Energy
Company Overview
AFS Energy B.V., a specialized division of the AFS Group
HeadquartersAmsterdam, Netherlands
Founded1999
SizeApproximately 150 employees (source: bnrbeurs.nl). AFS Group generates an estimated revenue of $27.6 million in 2023 (source: rocketreach.co).
What They Do
AFS Energy B.V. focuses on intermediation in the renewable energy and sustainability markets, with an emphasis on sustainability consulting, carbon markets (EU ETS and voluntary markets), and renewable energy certificates. The company operates as a multi-channel, multi-asset broker, rather than as a direct developer or producer of technologies such as solar energy, wind energy, storage, hydrogen, or grid infrastructure (source: afsenergy.nl). AFS Energy provides access to markets such as Euronext, Eurex, BATS, Nasdaq OMX, ICE, NEA, Certiq, Vertogas, and Statnett, offering tailored brokerage for environmental certificates, procurement strategies, and regulatory compliance support (source: afscommodities.com). With over 3,000 active counterparties, including asset managers, private banks, and government institutions, AFS Energy serves a wide range of clients across Europe (source: afscommodities.com). The company is fully regulated by the AFM, DNB, BAFIN, and FINMA, contributing to its reputation as a reliable intermediary in the finance and renewable energy niche (source: afscommodities.com).
Projects & Track Record
AFS Energy has no specific completed projects documented in public sources, as the company primarily acts as a broker and advisor without owning or developing physical renewable assets. The focus is on facilitating transactions and compliance for clients in environmental markets, with membership in the RECS Energy Certificate Association, underscoring its involvement in the procurement of renewable energy certificates (source: recs.org). The client base includes over 3,000 counterparties, and the geographical operations extend across Europe, with an expansion into New York through AFS Commodities (source: afscommodities.com).
Recent Developments
In the past two years, AFS Energy rang the bell at Euronext Amsterdam to celebrate its rapid growth from a small local player to a prominent player in renewable intermediation (source: euronext.com). AFS Group has also opened an office in New York as AFS Commodities, expanding its 175 years of expertise in U.S. financial and environmental programs (source: afscommodities.com). The latest update of the LEI data occurred on March 27, 2025, confirming the active status (source: lei-lookup.com).
Working at AFS Energy
AFS Energy recruits within the structure of AFS Group, emphasizing roles in trading, brokerage, execution, interest rates, and sustainability consulting. Departments include front-office trading, back-office, compliance, and recruitment (source: bnrbeurs.nl). The focus is on the headquarters in Amsterdam, with international opportunities in London, Zurich, and New York, requiring fluency in Dutch and English (source: afsgroup.nl). The company culture is characterized by a high-performing, ambitious team with energetic international colleagues and diverse team activities (source: bnrbeurs.nl). Documented benefits include competitive compensation, 27 vacation days per year, and free in-house fitness, positioning AFS Energy as a fast-growing organization that values people as its most important asset (source: bnrbeurs.nl).
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