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 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.

Email CV in WORD format: cvs@agricruitment.co.za

Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not been contacted within 2 weeks.

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