Trading Assistant

Musgrave is one of the Europe’s most successful family-owned businesses with a 140-year heritage in food and brand innovation, supporting communities across the island of Ireland and Spain.

Our people are the heart of our business. As our greatest asset, they make Musgrave a great place to work and in return we aim to be the very best place to work, grow and thrive.

We are now inviting applications for the position of Trading Assistant to join our trading team based in Belfast.

Reporting to the Trading Manager, the trading assistant will be responsible for providing administration support to a group of Trading Managers.

Day to day the role will include the collation, verifying and presentation of information to a set deadline and set standard, ensuring great attention to detail. This role will support a group of Trading Managers and will involve interfacing with suppliers, retailers and internal customers. The majority of the work will be office based with the occasional requirement to visit stores as and when required. This is a great opportunity for someone to gain exposure to buyers within a busy retail environment and learn about trading operations

The key responsibilities of this position will include:

• Provide comprehensive administration support
• Collation, verifying and presentation of information
• Timely and accurate processing of data
• Gather, coordinate and maintain all key trading information from suppliers or any other source on behalf of designated trading managers.
• Pass accurate paperwork to Price File team for processing.
• Proactive resolution of supplier pricing queries/range cleansing
• Build effective cross functional relationships to enhance service delivery
• Ensure adherence to company policy and calendar deadlines
• Act as focal interface on behalf of trading for retailer related activity/outputs
• Collation of retailer bulletin information and communications as required
• CRM query resolution from inception to conclusion on behalf of Trading Managers on all product and services queries.
• Analyse, review and suggest improvement to ways of working to reduce CRM queries
• Work effectively with Trading Managers to ensure smooth running of promotional activities and the transfer of key data

The successful candidate will possess the following:

• A min. of 6 months – 1 year of working in a busy working environment
• Previous experience of administration / data input
• Experience working to tight deadlines whilst ensuring accuracy of output
• Experience of using databases and working with high volumes of data
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Excellent Time Management skills
• Accuracy and attention to detail
• Ability to develop and maintain cross functional working relationships
• Can do attitude with the ability to embrace change
• Strong communication skills

Desirable:

• Previous administration experience within a trading or retail environment
• A-level or 3rd level qualification (business or commercial related