Junior Trader

Junior Trader
Salary £24,500.00 - £27,500.00 DOE Plus Excellent Benefits

Location - Cheltenham

My client has an exciting opportunity for a Junior Trader to join their established team achieving the commercial terms targets and marketing execution with agreed an supplier portfolio. Here the ideal candidate will take ownership for full product life cycle within designated categories to achieve range and financial targets, while aligning to the business needs and customer demand.

Key Responsibilities

• Supplier relationship and category management for 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
• Price management, Reviews, Competitor Analysis, Market updates, Commodity Tracking, reporting
• Support the business with slow moving and short dated products by working to create an exit strategy
• Maintain a broad understanding of owned categories stock holding and risk at all times
• Keep up to date with product regulatory compliance, suggest actions maintaining 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, execution and customer offering Design, Delivery, Coordination at Key Company, Buying Group, Supplier, Customer, and Industry events including trade shows, seminars, insights and other events relevant to product portfolio and owned categories
• Liaise closely with Marketing to ensure Trading strategy dovetails with Channel & Consumer insight
• Maximise potential margins through product swaps and suggested alternatives through developing
  and nurturing effective relationships with the Sales Team
• Present proactive plans and Category insight to internal and external customers of all levels
• Provide clear management of expectations and definition of timescales to internal customers
• Liaise with the Supply Chain team to ensure continuity of supply
• Share best practice, supplier and range information with Head Office and Member counterparts

Essential Skills and Qualifications

• Experience co-ordinating, and adding value to company, industry and supplier events including exhibitions, insights and networking
• A strong understanding of key metrics that impact the commercial revenues including Overider, Marketing income & Product Rebates
• An understanding of the Foodservice marketplace, FMCG Product knowledge ideally
• Experience managing multiple internal and external stakeholders
• Experience Managing the Product Lifecycle; List, Launch, Review, De-list
• Experience delivering presentations with excellent communication, and relationship building skills
• Strong Numeracy skills and GCSE grade C(4) or equivalent as a minimum
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel and ideally with experience using Office 365, Teams and Sharepoint
• Excellent networking skills
• Willingness to Travel and the flexibility to accommodate planned overnight stays for events

Benefits

• If you are studying towards your Qualifications, you will be supported.
• 33 Days of annual leave.
• Life Assurance, Savings Scheme.
• Training & Development Opportunities.
• Discounted Staff Purchases.
• Auto-enrolment Pension Scheme.

This is an amazing opportunity to join a strong established company.

Please contact Daniel at i2i Recruitment for IMMEDIATE consideration!
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