Total Produce - Graduate Category Executive
2015-11-02 12:47:08
2015-12-01 00:00:00
- Maidstone, Kent
- £19k
- 1st Dec ’15
- Closed
An ambitious, progressive and accomplished business, Total Produce is Europe's premier fresh produce provider. Growing, sourcing, importing, packaging, distributing and marketing over 200 lines of fresh fruits, vegetables we distribute some 300 million cartons of fresh produce to the retail, wholesale, foodservice and processing sectors across Europe and North America annually.
Total Worldfresh is the Retail specialist within the Group embracing every stage in the product life cycle, from plant breeding to production, from global importation to UK sourcing and supply and we are actively recruiting to increase our teams with keen and engaged people.
Objective: To support the Commercial Manager with existing accounts. Develop an understanding of a number of product areas and accounts so they can develop within the business and take on more responsibility.
Key Responsibilities:
- Constructing and marketing of category plans.
- Collation and processing of customer orders;
- Collation of management reports tracking year on year figures, varieties, origins, cost, prices and sales including monitoring key activities for the supermarkets
- Reconcile stock on a daily basis.
- Ensuring product packaging is to specification
- Establish relationships with customers and suppliers as needed.
- Interface with Assistant Category Managers/ Category Managers to ensure all queries are dealt with from customers and suppliers.
- Grasp an understanding of the business to develop into being able to negotiate with smaller clients.
- Ad hoc tasks/ projects: store visits; benchmarking; packaging NPD tasks.
Person Specification:
- Experience – ideally knowledge of produce or other fast moving goods industries.
- Computer literacy - all Microsoft applications.
- Good organizational skills with experience of administrative duties.
- Ability to communicate effectively, employing tact and discretion and demonstrating a genuine desire to provide a good service.
- Attention to detail - all duties must be carried out with a very high level of accuracy.
- Team player - working as part of a close knit commercial and technical team and communicating well within the team.