Trade Support Administrator

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.

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:

1. Contracts administration and maintenance
2. Issuing call offs and shipping instructions to suppliers
3. Logging customer call offs on ERP (i.e. checking on prices, whether within agreed period, stock levels, Credit check if spot/prompt)
4. Customer/supplier liaison
5. Forward planning/position analysis/reporting - advising anomalies to traders
6. Pricing/cost exercises for new business tenders
7. Stock allocations for logistics
8. Overall responsibility of maintaining the trading position to support trader in sales
9. Issuance shipment F-File from start to finish - Import/export documentation addressing issues/amendments to supplier
10. Issuing instructions to agents, shipping lines and warehouses
11. Following up with supplier payments
12. Trade finance (collections/LCs where applicable)
13. Monitoring ETAs, advising of any major changes to trader which may impact supply to clients

TRADE SUPPORT IDEAL APPLICANT:

1. 2-3 years in international sales admin, trade support, logistics/shipping admin or related experience
2. Strong Microsoft Excel skills
3. Fluency in English
4. Incoterms desirable but not necessary
5. 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.