[Hiring] Commercial Director @Atlantic Strategic Minerals

Role Description

The Commercial Director is a senior executive role accountable for building and leading ASM's end-to-end commercial function, spanning both sides of the value chain:

• Sourcing third-party mineral concentrates to supplement and secure feedstock supply.
• Marketing and selling ASM's own mineral product offtake - titanium minerals (ilmenite, rutile, and/or leucoxene), zircon, monazite, and staurolite - into markets.

As a member of the Executive Team, the Commercial Director partners with the CEO and fellow executives to set commercial strategy, manage counterparty and market risk, and ensure ASM's commercial performance supports the company's broader growth, financing, and stakeholder commitments. The role carries full accountability for commercial revenue, margin, and supply-security outcomes and is expected to represent ASM externally with customers, suppliers, industry bodies, and investors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, engineering, geology, or a related field.
• Substantial senior-level experience (typically 15+ years) in commodity/mineral sales, marketing, trading, or procurement, with demonstrated experience in mineral sands, titanium feedstock, zircon, or related industrial minerals markets.
• Established network of relationships with concentrate suppliers and/or buyers of titanium minerals, zircon, monazite, or staurolite.
• Proven track record negotiating and managing complex, high-value supply and offtake contracts in an international context.
• Prior experience operating at, or reporting directly into, an executive or senior leadership level.
• Strong commercial acumen, including experience with pricing mechanisms, contract structuring, credit/counterparty risk, and international trade logistics.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively, domestically and internationally.

Requirements

• MBA or postgraduate qualification in business, finance, or related discipline (desirable).
• Familiarity with regulatory requirements for NORM-bearing materials, including export licensing and transport compliance (desirable).
• Experience in a junior-to-mid-tier mining company, including exposure to project development, financing, or an ASX/TSX/NYSE listed environment (desirable).
• Existing relationships within the global heavy mineral sands, pigment, and rare-earth value chains (desirable).

Benefits

• Compensation will be commensurate with experience and market benchmarking for an executive-level commercial role in the mining and industrial minerals sector.
• Base Salary: $200-230K
• Short-Term Incentive: TBD
• Long-Term Incentive: TBD
• Benefits: TBD