Trading Assistant Nottingham, England
Job description
Job title: Trading Assistant
Based: Nottingham
Full Time
Who are we?
At MuscleFood and DTS, we’re passionate about healthy living and nutrition. Our products and services are aimed at the health conscious, and range from the best lean meats, dietary supplements, meal plans and recipe kits, through to healthy, pre-prepared meal pots. We want to help our customers achieve their healthy-living goals, by giving them access to all the protein and nutrients they need. We have a devoted customer-base for our healthy living products and services, and we believe in the massive opportunity to help even more customers to live well–pay less.
The Role
As Trading assistant reporting into the Senior Commercial Manager you'll be supporting and providing administration to the Sales & Buying function in all commercial area’s of both businesses to help grow the business.
There will be opportunity to work with Suppliers, Production, Procurement, and NPD to supply innovative food products into food retailers and direct to customer via our website.
Due to the recent success and sales growth, this newly created role of Trading assistant offers the opportunity to develop your career with an online food retailer who supplies a great range of innovative products.
You'll be involved in all product activity across Procurement, NPD, and Production to ensure that the business plans are achieved. You'll have full exposure to the day to day running of the business, reporting on the market and their category, identifying new opportunities and recommending actions to improve margin. You'll also run daily sales reports, analyse data, create presentations along with completing essential administration tasks including export processes.
You'll enjoy working in a fast-moving environment, have a passion for food, be commercially astute and numerate with the ability to build strong relationships with a strong proficiency in Excel word and PowerPoint.
Key responsibilities:
· Supporting the buying and selling processes along with managing and processing customer orders in the system.
· Build strong and progressive relationships through all levels.
· Originating export paperwork
· Tracking/measuring the success of growth initiatives (launches and promotions/activations)
· Monitor and report sales performance by product.
· Support with customer relationships and expectations.
· Leverage cross functional team in delivery of business sales plans.
· Competitor reporting.
· Ensure promotions are loaded accurately into systems with associated uplifts reflected in volume forecasts.
Key Skills Needed:
· Strong Administration skills
· Preferable Sage 200 experience would be an advantage
· Ability to work both independently and as a team member, and an ability to form long lasting working relationships with colleagues.
· Good communication skills.
· A demonstratable passion for customer needs, and examples of where you have put the customer or clients need at the core of your role and delivery.
· Ability to analyse data and act on it accordingly.
· Strong organisational skills and an ability to meet timelines in a disciplined manner.
· Strong IT and numerical skills, particularly in MS Office and Excel (Pivot tables) and Power Point, but also demonstrate an ability to understand and utilise other systems.
· Full driving licence is essential
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: £24,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Additional leave
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Discounted or free food
- Employee discount
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- On-site parking
- Private medical insurance
- Store discount
Schedule:
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Nottingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)
Experience:
- Administration: 1 year (preferred)
Licence/Certification:
- driving licence (preferred)
Work Location: In person
Expected start date: 01/07/2023
