Trading Executive

About Creed

Creed is a family business, established in 1972, which is ambitious with it's growth within the industry. We deliver a great range of multi-temperature food products, including our butchery and fresh ranges to caterers across the country from our offices in Cheltenham, Ilkeston & High Wycombe. It's a great place to be and we are proud of our role in supporting our local community. We are dedicated to creating a great place to work, with great people and in 2020 were listed by Sunday Times as one of the top 100 companies to work for, having achieved a “two star” status with best companies. Our people are committed to our values, choose their attitude and focus on the needs of the customer. They work hard and are committed to providing a great service but want to have some fun and development along the way. Our employees often get involved in charity events, attend the company conversations, put forward their ideas for improvement and contribute in the team briefings. Our core business values are being: Commercial, Proud, Friendly and Nurturing.

Role Details

This role will achieve commercial terms targets and marketing execution with agreed supplier portfolio of circa 65 suppliers worth circa £500,000 of below the line revenue across £7.5m of spend and take ownership for the full product life cycle within designated categories to achieve range and financial targets while aligning to the business needs and customer demand.

Some responsibilities of the role include:

Supplier, Product & Category:

Supplier relationship and category management for designated categories and agreed supplier portfolio.

Effective delivery and tracking of supplier commercial revenues.

Source new products in line with the internal business strategy and external customer retention and development strategy.

Price management, Range Reviews, Competitor Analysis, Market updates, Commodity Tracking and reporting.

Support the business with slow moving and short dated products by working with suppliers to create an exit strategy.

Maintain a broad understanding of owned categories stock holding and risk at all times.

Keep up to date with changes to product regulatory compliance and suggest and implement actions to maintain regulatory compliance.

Facilitate solutions to industry challenges and changes across relevant categories.

Ensure accuracy of supplier billing and minimise queries from Finance.

Regular product benchmarking via product comparison process.

Competitor analysis and market updates across product range, execution and customer offering.

Internal Stakeholder:

Liaise closely with Marketing to ensure Trading strategy dovetails with Channel & Consumer insight.

Maximise potential margins through product swaps and suggested alternatives through developing and nurturing effective relationships with the Sales Team.

Present proactive plans and Category insight to internal and external customers of all levels.

Provide clear management of expectations and definition of timescales to internal customers.

Liaise with the Supply Chain team to ensure continuity of supply.

Share best practice, supplier and range information with Country Range Head Office and Member counterparts.

Organising the collection of supplier marketing collateral within the required timeframes

Loading of supplier and Country Range Group promotions onto our internal systems

Calculation and tracking of supplier promotional funding in MS Excel

Collecting New Product Information

Product pricing administration

Supporting the trading team with ad-hoc tasks as required

The Ideal Candidate

We're looking for someone with a strong desire to make a difference and go above and beyond for our customers.

Essential:

* Highly self-motivated to achieve agreed goals, able to work efficiently and independently within time constraints.

* An organised and methodical approach to work and prioritisation that ensures the achievement of deadlines.

* An understanding of key metrics that impact the commercial revenues including Overider, Marketing income & Product Rebates.

* An understanding of the Foodservice marketplace.

* Experience managing multiple internal and external stakeholders.

* Experience delivering presentations.

* Excellent communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills.

* Strong Numeracy skills and GCSE grade C(4) or equivalent as a minimum.

* Proficient in MS Office, particularly Excel and ideally with experience using Office 365, Teams and Sharepoint.

Desirable:

* FMCG Product knowledge ideally gained from within one of the ‘out of home’ channels.

* Experience Managing the Product Lifecycle; List, Launch, Review, De-list.

* Experience working as part of a team within an office environment.

* An understanding of product allergens, nutritional information and government food legislation (Sugar Tax, HFSS Etc).

What you get in return:

Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.

Training and development and career progression opportunities.

Recognition for doing a great job and going the extra mile from customers, your department and the rest of the business.

Respect and support from your team, supervisors and managers.

33 Days of annual leave per year.

Life insurance for 2 times your annual salary.

Employee discount on purchases and regular special offers for staff.

Access to an online discount portal, providing discounts for gyms, the cinema, supermarkets, high street retailers, cashback for changing your electricity supplier and much more helping you to save money on purchases that you would ordinarily make.

Employee assistance programme that offers confidential support and advice which includes free access to legal advice, wellness programmes and much more.

Auto-Enrolment Pension Scheme.

Creed also offer employees the opportunity to join our Savings Scheme, join the Staff Lottery to support our selected charities and be in with the chance of winning £250 each month, an additional day off each year which you can use to help a charitable cause of your choice and much more. We are also a Living Wage Foundation accredited employer