Junior Trader - Cheltenham, United Kingdom - RE Recruitment

RE Recruitment

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Junior Trader

Cheltenham - Gloucestershire

Full-time, flexible days and nights

£21, £27,500 Per Annum

One of Gloucestershire's top food businesses is recruiting a Junior Trader to join the trading team.

This role is ideal for a commercially astute individual looking to grow a career in trading or buying and may be from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Responsibilities:

Supplier relationship and category management for designated categories and agreed supplier portfolio.
Effective delivery and tracking of supplier commercial revenues.
Source new products in line with the internal business strategy and external customer retention and development strategy.
Price management, Range Reviews, Competitor Analysis, Market updates, Commodity Trackingand reporting.
Support the business with slow moving and short dated products by working with suppliers to create an exit strategy.
Maintain a broad understanding of owned categories stock holding and risk at all times.
Keep up to date with changes to product regulatory compliance and suggest and implement actions to maintain regulatory compliance.
Facilitate solutions to industry challenges and changes across relevant categories.
Ensure accuracy of supplier billing and minimise queries from Finance.
Regular product benchmarking via product comparison process.
Competitor analysis and market updates across product range, executionand customer offering.

The Person

Highly selfmotivated to achieve agreed goals, able to work efficiently and independently within time constraints.
An organised and methodical approach to work and prioritisation that ensures the achievement of deadlines.
An understanding of key metrics that impact the commercial revenues including Overider, Marketing income & Product Rebates.
An understanding of the Foodservice marketplace.
Experience managing multiple internal and external stakeholders.
Experience delivering presentations.
Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.
Strong Numeracy skills and GCSE grade C(4) or equivalent as a minimum.
Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel and ideally with experience using Office 365, Teams and Sharepoint.

Benefits:

Cashback and perks bundle: discounts on supermarkets, major brands, insurance, holidays, gymsand cinemas
25 days holiday plus BH
Salary exchange pension scheme
Life Assurance scheme
Employee Savings scheme
Refer a Friend scheme
Taxfree Childcare
Eye tests
Free parking
Free drinks
Free fruit days
Long service recognition
Monthly charity lottery