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Grocery Trading Assistant (Retail)

Employer: b3 jobs
Location: North West London
Salary: £27,000 + benefits.
Closing date: 15 Aug 2024

Contract Type: Permanent
Function: Purchasing
Business Sector: Food Manufacturing

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Grocery Trading Assistant (Retail)

£27,000 + Benefits
North West London
Food Manufacturing
Job ref: 8711

The company

The company has led the convenience food retail market for years, with a long-standing presence in both the UK and throughout Europe. The business is dedicated to innovation and is strategically placed in multiple UK locations to effectively service and delight its customers.

About the Grocery Trading Assistant job

The purpose of your role will be to provide accurate and timely administration support to the Grocery Trading team, work closely with buyers, and ensure specific Trading activities & projects are delivered to the business promptly.

Key tasks

Liaising with suppliers for latest turnover figures to support with forecasting and understanding latest position on performance. Input confirmed numbers into budget sheet, as well as inputting relevant supplier information changes into companies' software.
Assist the team in producing docs for category reviews and request information when required. Liaising with Trading support to create spreadsheets with supplier promotional submissions, compiling reports, chase suppliers for outstanding deliveries etc.
Collect and collate forecasts from RDCs (Regional Distribution Centres) where needed and support completion of data and benchmarking to secure rationale from suppliers of any increases.

About You

The successful candidate should have qualifications and proficiency in both Maths and English, as well as a background of of analysing and interpreting data.

Has worked in a fast-paced environment within a large team for at least 1 year.
Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and ideally Power BI.
Works to deadlines effectively.
Passionate about food.

More details

The Grocery Trading Assistant job is based in North West London and is paying £27,000 + Benefits according to your experience.

The working hours are Monday - Friday during office hours & it is a 35-hour working week.

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Company

Since 2000, b3 jobs has been helping to further 1000s of people’s careers within the food manufacturing industry, throughout the whole of the UK. As one of the leading specialist food manufacturing recruitment agencies, b3 jobs cover all disciplines both permanent and interim and from graduates to MD’s,

Our core values are always:

to find the very best job for you - not us!
to give you friendly, ethical, honest and expert recruitment services
to advise and not pressurise, so that you can make the right decisions for you

We genuinely strive to provide you with what you want – a job that not only offers the salary you’re after, but also the career progression and job satisfaction that makes going to work all the more worthwhile. Enough trumpet blowing though – visit our website to read just some of our happy previous candidate testimonials - we are more than happy to let our reputation precede us!

For a full up to date list of our jobs, visit www.b3jobs.co.uk

Food Industry Graduates

If you are graduating soon and looking for your first job in food manufacturing, have a look at our Graduate Resource Hub on the b3 jobs website.

https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/graduates

Here you will find everything you need to get started on searching for a new position, from CV and cover letter writing tips, sample food industry job descriptions, informative and entertaining blog posts, useful links and even live graduate vacancies you can apply for.

Company info

Website: https://www.b3jobs.co.uk/
Telephone: 01435 866000
Location: Heffle Buildings
33a High Street
Heathfield
East Sussex
TN21 8HU
GB

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