Senior Trading Manager Job Description

Job Title :SeniorTrading Manager

Responsible to:Trading Director

Department :Purchasing/Trading

Key Role :This Senior role within Trading uniquely givesyou full autonomy to use all your valuable entrepreneurial and commercial skills in continuously creating and managing your categories within the markets we trade. Ensuring we continue to offer "best in value"and "best in range" to all our retail customers and consumers within the island of Ireland .

Key Responsibilities:

  • To identify source and develop existing and new consumer facing branded products and ranges within your categories to meet our business requirements for both our Northern Ireland and Southern Ireland Todays Symbol and Wholesale market strategies which meet our customer , supplier and commercial requirements
  • To develop review and deliver National and Local terms agreements through effective negotiation on cost price and income ensuring all benchmarks are applied to our costs, RSP's inboth our Symbol and Wholesale business
  • Build effective relationships with suppliers and other key stakeholders to deliver the Trading objectives
  • Drive category growth through category promotional and sales plans
  • Plan negotiate and deliver trading objectives
  • Managing your administration and replenishment team resources

Knowledge, Skills and Experience:

  • Results driven skilled influencer and strong negotiator
  • Proven experience of buying ideally within an FMCG organisation delivering sales and margin growth through category management
  • Strong communication and negotiation skills to manage a large supplier base achieving measurable benefits against objectives
  • Proven experience of building effective relationships with all key stakeholders ( Internal and External )
  • Strategic planning and managing of product ranges to budgeted requirements
  • Successful delivery of projects to time and budget
  • Entrepreneurial eye for opportunities that deliver growth within your categories
  • Competence in Microsoft Excel, Word , Powerpoint
  • Numeracy ( ability to read, analyse, review and format numerical information)
  • Problem Solving
  • Analytical thinking

If this sounds like the opportunity for you and you have the entrepreneurial flair and want to join Ireland's largest Independent Wholesaler with full autonomy within your categories, we would love to hear from you.

August 2017