Job overview:
Established fruit exporter, based in Port Elizabeth, seeks to employ an experienced Commercial Manager with a strong commercial background in citrus exports to Asia. The ideal candidate must be capable of supporting the company’s dynamic and fast-paced environment and have the ability to cooperate in a diverse team.
Requirements
- Tertiary Qualification preferably in Agriculture, Logistics, Finance, or Marketing
- Marketing and/or sales experience in Asian markets
- Experience in growing sales
- Proven record of ability to build strong business relationships
- Product knowledge of citrus
- Minimum 3 years’ experience in the fruit industry
- Computer literate, especially Microsoft Office
Characteristics
- Excellent communication skills
- Proactive and innovative mindset
- Able to work effectively in a high-pressure environment
- Energetic and outgoing with high work ethic
- Disciplined
- Ability to work in a team
- Problem-solving capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Strong negotiation skills and decisiveness
Job Description
- Manage current and new business relationships effectively
- Grow sales in Asian markets and increase group’s market share in these markets
- Have market presence and travel regularly to markets to visit existing customers and develop new sales channels
- Collaborate with the procurement team to identify sourcing opportunities and visit packhouses and growers regularly along with the procurement team
- Provide regular market updates to procurement team and growers
- Identification and pursuit of opportunities to expand business
- Analysis of sales and finance reports to gain insights into how to improve performance and maximize growth
- Operational and Administrative Setup: Maintain transparency with continuous reporting, including price estimates, collection follow-ups, sales accounts, and cost management
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Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not been contacted within 2 weeks.
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