Tasks and responsibilities:

With an unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, our Trader takes charge of cultivating, nurturing, and broadening relationships. Your mission? To not only meet but surpass annual objectives. Collaborating closely with both domestic and international Product Managers, you will seize every market opportunity that comes your way. Armed with Meelunie’s comprehensive portfolio of products and services, you will engage with existing and fresh accounts. Simultaneously, you orchestrate internal support functions, ensuring that the company consistently meets and exceeds customer expectations.

You will spend the majority of your time in the field developing and managing assigned accounts. Position requires at least 20% overnight travel.

• Develop new customers and maintain relations with existing customers.
• Meet and exceed defined volume and trading profit objectives.
• Develop and execute both long-term and near term strategies.
• Establish productive, professional relationships with key personnel.
• Active credit management of your customer portfolio.
• Work closely with Product Managers to uncover opportunities based on market dynamics.
• Develop strong relations with overseas offices.
• Coordinate the involvement of Logistics, Commercial Assistants and Finance.
• Stay well informed about current industry and trends and be able to converse knowledgably with
customers about the trends. Likewise, provide market input to Product Managers.
• Development of Trading skills: master position taking i.e. short/long.
• Attend and participate in sales meetings, product seminars and trade shows.
• Prepare and present annual sales plans (reviewed quarterly).
• Coordinate contract negotiations to optimize volume and trading profit.

Skills & experience:

• Trading and/or Sales experience is desirable.
• Ability to multitask in a high paced environment.
• Confident in building relations.
• Ability to give presentations.

Minimum Bachelor’s degree is required; master’s degree a plus.

You:

• Entrepreneurial spirit. Ability to create something out of nothing.
• Excellent communication skills in order to effectively communicate at all levels, internally and
externally.
• Ability to build open, trustworthy relationships with other leaders of the business.
• Intellectually competitive, good quantitative, analytical and problem solving abilities.
• Ability to operate effectively with minimal supervision; self-motivated.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with an ability to function in a team-oriented environment.
• Comfortable making decisions without 100% of the needed information; manage risk.
• Strong planning and organizational skills with the ability to multi-task.
• An energetic, resilient and committed leader with a positive attitude who has an open and
straightforward operating style.
• Confident and aggressive with a high sense of responsibility, quality, ethics and integrity.
• Professional image and business-oriented demeanor.
• A resourceful, action-oriented individual who possesses a strong sense of urgency, and who has
the ability to overcome obstacles to achieve results in a timely fashion. A willingness to do what
is required to achieve expectations and goals.
• Comfortable with making 100% decisions with only half of the information.
• Mastering the English language is a must; speaking Spanish and/or Italian is a benefit.

What we offer:

Meelunie is its people. Loyal, self-starting, multinational and dynamic professionals whom we empower to go that extra mile for their clients, suppliers, and colleagues. We add value for our suppliers and customers. If you can do that, too, we’re interested in you. We invest time, energy and resources in our people. You’re given real responsibility, as well as every opportunity to develop yourself. And we expect you to grab that chance.

In exchange for your hard work and dedication, Meelunie offers you a fun, entrepreneurial-spirited, collaborative team environment.

Acquisition in respect of this vacancy is not wanted and will not be appreciated.