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A specialised international soft commodities trading company based in Edgware requires someone with around 2-3 years of office admin, trade support, sales admin, or logistics admin support to provide timely and well executed support to the team.
The role would suit someone with around 2-3 years of experience in a similar field, who likes to work an independent and hands-on position.
TYPE: Full time, 12-14-month maternity contract
LOCATION: Edgware, North London. (During probation/training, you will be required to attend the office, and then hybrid working is allowed)
Hours: 9am to 5.30pm with 1 hour lunch break
SALARY: Up to £32k, depending on experience
Trade Support Responsibilities:
- Contracts administration and maintenance
- Issuing call offs and shipping instructions to suppliers
- Logging customer call offs on ERP (i.e. checking on prices, whether within agreed period, stock levels, Credit check if spot/prompt)
- Customer/supplier liaison
- Forward planning/position analysis/reporting- advising anomalies to traders
- Pricing/cost exercises for new business tenders
- Stock allocations for logistics
- Overall responsibility of maintaining the trading position to support trader in sales
- Issuance shipment F-File from start to finish- Import / export documentation addressing issues/amendments to supplier
- Issuing instructions to agents, shipping lines and warehouses,
- Following up with supplier payments
- Trade finance (collections /LCs where applicable)
- Monitoring ETAs, advising of any major changes to trader which may impact supply to clients.
Trade Support Ideal Candidate:
- 2-3 years in international sales admin, trade support, logistics/shipping admin or related experience
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills
- Fluency in English
- Incoterms desirable but not necessary
- A good team player with strong communication skills and attention to detail, able to independently work when needed
If your application is successful, you will be contacted within 2 days. We regret that due to the high volume of applications we receive we cannot provide feedback on individual CVs.
