Summary
Job ref: 11969
Job Type: Trading
Location: Ballymun, Dublin 11
Contract type: Contract
Closing Date: 24 January 2021
Trading Manager
Musgrave is Ireland`s leading food retail and wholesale company. Our retail brands include SuperValu, Centra, Daybreak, and Mace in Northern Ireland. In addition, Musgrave MarketPlace is Ireland`s leading wholesale supplier to retail, foodservice and SMEs. We are continuously changing and expanding our brand portfolio, with more recent brands including Frank & Honest Coffee, La Rousse Foods and Drinks Inc. Our values are long-term stable relationships, achievement, not being greedy, honest, and working hard. There are real progression opportunities within our business for those looking for a long term career. |
Role Purpose:
To produce and implement business development plans incorporating range, price, promotion and supply chain for trading category across all MWS business units.
Role Scope:
The key challenge of the role is to drive our offer to achieve growth through our product offerings
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Produce and implement business development plans for all business units incorporating:
- Range strategy
- Assess commercial performance of current range
- Review market trends and opportunities
- Review competitor offerings
- Price positioning
- Assess current pricing and margin performance
- Review competitor price positioning
- Promotion plan
- Develop appropriate promotional strategies to drive profitability
- Supply chain
- Ensure that inbound service levels are on target
- Cost of goods
- Ensure that we are leveraging our group buying power effectively
- Through effective management of the administrative resource ensure that you product and price file is continuously and accurately maintained
- Support the Business Units by making regular site visits to achieve the following objectives…
- Solicit customer feedback & insight
- Communicate relevant changes and developments
- Coach, mentor and motivate the appropriate business unit employees
- Support the business units through development of working relationship with the sales teams and the key customers
- Be prepared to commit to further education programs as appropriate
Measures:
- Quality of business development plans
- Sales and margin performance by category by business units
- Inbound service levels
- Administrative measures – e.g. First time match rate
- Frequency, quality and effectiveness of site visits to Cash & Carry’s
- Quality of relationships developed with DCR & DFS sales teams
The ideal candidate will have/be:
Education, Skills and Experience:
- Undergraduate or equivalent
- Excellent Microsoft Office & Outlook skills
- Strong commercial acumen
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills
- Passionate about Food
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