Position : Trade Manager

Salary: $3,000 - $5,000 + good benefit or negotiate

Report to : Chief Representative

Working location: Ho Chi Minh city

The Trade Manager is responsible for having a profound understanding of, and genuine relationships with, customers in-country. The principal role of the position is not only to sell, but importantly to understand their customers on an intimate level.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a deep understanding of customers’, including:

+ Product mix usage;

+ Open demand per commodity per by month;

+ Customers’ buying and pricing ideas;

+ Location and capacity of each asset, if any;

+ Capacity utilization;

+ Amount of storage space at each asset;

+ Logistical access points to each facility;

• Have strong personal relationships with customers;
• Provide customers with market information, such as global crop outlooks, weather conditions, trends, market opinions, product suggestions, etc.
• Actively visit customers outside of the office, including lunches, dinners, office visits, and other engagements;
• Aggressively expand domestic sales program of commodities in Vietnamese Dong;

+ Full working knowledge of logistic spreads, costings, foreign exchange rates, and other elements required to offer domestic values to customers;

+ Be able to readily convert between CFR and domestic prices unassisted;

• Provide robust marketing services and daily feedback on customers’ demand for CFR purchases;

• Develop new customers as well as business opportunities and sales channels;
• Develop knowledge of basis, flat price, and futures;

• Ability to work within a team-based work environment focused on transparent communication.

Res Requirements

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor Degree with business/economic/trading background preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 5 years commercial experience preferably, including trading and logistics in agricultural commodities.

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES:

• Good interpersonal and communication skills;
• High level of analytical thinking with strong self-initiative;
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously with ease;
• Ability to work well under pressure.

Candidate Requirements:

Have Integrity Be honest and true

Be Resourceful Make it work the right way

Show Respect Treat everyone and everything with care and consideration

Practice Teamwork Succeed together

Achieve Excellence Be great at what you do and keep getting better

Take Responsibility Own it. Do it. Don’t give up

Work in an ethical and legal manner in accordance with Company policies and procedures.

• Maintain a high level of individual and team professional ethics, standards and behaviours.
• Remain familiar with policies and procedures relating to work. Comply with company policies and procedures.
• Comply with relevant industry codes of practice, Trade Practices, Privacy and other relevant legislation.
• Ensure that required licenses and certifications remain current. Advise management where required licenses and certifications are suspended or revoked for any period.

Work and ensure all employees, work in a healthy and safe manner, not adversely affect the health and safety of themselves or others, in accordance with relevant legislation and the company Health & Safety, Drug & Alcohol and other related policies:

• Report fit for work and follow all reasonable instructions relating to your or others’ health and safety.
• Identify hazards in your work area, eliminate them where possible and where not possible, assist other staff to rectify the issue to ensure no imminent danger to self or others.
• Report all hazards, near misses, incidents and injuries immediately.
• Participate in or co-operate with company OH&S initiatives and projects and attend all required safety training, including driver training where applicable.
• Ensure that company property in your use or control is well maintained and is kept in a tidy, secure and safe condition at all times.

For more the information please contact our consultant:  

Ms Phuong

•  02839154343 ext 113 
•  phuong.nguyen@firstrecruitment-asia.com

Ms Susan

•  02839154343 ext 111 
•  susan.ho@firstrecruitment-asia.com