Meat Trader – Sales

Job Title: Commodity Trader – Meat Sales
Location: Cape Town, South Africa

Imperium Commodity Search is exclusively retained by a global meat/proteins trading house, exporter and supplier, seeking growth in their African sales business across frozen foods/meat categories (poultry, pork, beef).  With a global trading set up for their frozen foods and meats business, this is a role with a trader style profit/margin split over a base salary and suits a commercially focused individual with experience in selling food and meat commodities to clients/producers and processors in East/West African markets.

To succeed in this role, you will be energetic, inquisitive, active and curious.  This is not an internal sales role, but one half of a trading position, and will suit an individual looking to transition to a commercially rewarded and dynamic trading desk.

Benefits:

• Meritocratic business with a longstanding staff
• Internal progression opportunities to develop your trading skills and experience
• Broad internal benefits and employee assistance
• Firm operates in over 150 countries with a diverse product basis and team

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Generate relationships with buyers of frozen meat products, building a profitable trading business in African markets for the sale of pork, poultry and beef frozen products
• Build and maintain relationships with wholesalers, restaurant business and food companies to ensure broad book of clients across the African meat sector
• Oversee sales metrics and PnL targets for the desk, ensuring a consistent and unwavering approach to commercial terms and growth
• Keep up to date with market news and movements in the frozen meat sector across the African markets
• Ensure up to date reporting of sales figures and targets in the frozen meat category
• Work with procurement/sourcing teams to respond to client requirements/orders across the frozen meat space
• Ensure fluidity of operations for delivery/supply chain of frozen meat business and keep seamless communications with the customer

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• 2 years experience in a foods/meats or frozen product sales in the African markets
• Good commercial acumen with the ability to drive business development across poultry, beef and pork categories
• Experience in handling logistics and operations for frozen products preferred
• Good understanding of the East or West African markets
• Fluent in English and French (written and verbal)
• Able to travel freely for client relationship management, based out of Cape Town, South Africa

If you are finding yourself looking towards the door in your current role, and the above sounds like it could appeal, we would love to hear from you. You wont need a CV/Resume put together if you don’t have one.  You can reach out to Mark Taylor or Josh Clark on LinkedIn, by email, phone, carrier pigeon, smoke signals or post.  Email or Phone is probably easiest though:

josh.clark@imperiumcs.com & mark.taylor@imperiumcs.com
+44 (0) 203 927 5090 | +1 312 380 0225 | +65 3158 1066
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