Trader

Provides services to support ForFarmers’ day-to-day business operations. Provides professional or administrative support to the business, enabling employees to work more efficiently. As a generalist, performs work relating to multiple Business Support expertise areas.

You will work as part of a busy sales trading desk offering our sustainable feed solutions to our farm customers. You need to be customer focused with the ability to build relationships quickly and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment ensuring our customers are kept up to date with the latest pricing and availability.

You will have trading responsibilities for products on a national basis, monitoring agreed trading positions and volume levels. Providing accurate commercial information and market information to the Total Feed Specialists, Field Based Account Managers, Merchants as well as direct farm sales.

Your responsibilities:

• Ensure clearance of products from points of supply to the satisfaction of suppliers and maintain communication with all key personnel at supply sites (3rd party & ForFarmers).
• Sales volumes and margin realization for the co-products.
• Following up on leads from the sales force and own lead generation.
• Identifying new business opportunities and working with product managers on how to capture.
• 100% logging on C4C of all customer interactions; monitoring, developing and maintaining the input of information into the C4C database system.

Your profile:

• Completed higher-level vocational education (BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma or equivalent).
• Significant continuous work experience within a telephone sales environment.
• Motivation for sales and a commercial acumen.
• Sales and closing skills.
• Ability to motivate internal and external sales teams, suppliers and logistic partners.
• Computer literacy and CRM experience.
• Proactive, customer centric approach.
• Ability to build rapport quickly and maintain longer-term relationships over the telephone.

We value diversity in our workplace and welcome enquiries from everyone. Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the role by assessing their circumstances against the relevant criteria on the Gov.UK website. Please make us aware if you need any reasonable adjustments to participate in this process. We encourage you to submit your application as early as possible and not wait until the published closing date as this can vary. Have any questions? Contact us! We’d love to hear from you! Feel free to get in touch: our HR team is happy to help.