Merchant job at Cargill
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Vacancy title:
Merchant

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Business Management and Administration , Category: Procurement / Store-keeping / Supply Chain ]

Jobs at:

Cargill

Deadline of this Job:
13 July 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, June 30, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Key Accountabilities
• Build lasting relationships with farmers, aggregators, and other traders.
• Build lasting relationships and networks with flour millers, feed millers and other processors.
• Collaborate with supply chain, quality assurance, customer managers and credit team to ensure efficient grain and execution.
• Work closely with OPS and SC to ensure all controls are observed at buying centres.
• Plan purchases and transportation to maximize origination volume and profitable use of storage facilities.
• Work closely with other sales merchants to ensure sales budgets (volume and margin) are met.
• Support collection efforts and ensure no doubtful or bad debts.
• Ensure all new counterparties provide KYC documents, are fully onboarded and relevant limits in place before concluding business.
• Ensure all trades limits are in place, renewed annually and that approved limits are not breached.
• Enter routine data and run specialty reports (daily trading position and Pnl) from our contract management databases and systems MBS.
• Work directly with suppliers and customer business counterparts to meet their needs in solving routine problems and addressing complaints and concerns.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of five years of related work experience.
• Thorough understanding of the agricultural industry in Kenya as well in-depth knowledge of the production patterns and/or areas. Willingness to travel to various growing regions.
• Good interpersonal and communication skills both internal and external.

Key Behaviors
• Make sense of complex and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Build strong farmer and miller customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions.
• Strong analytical and negotiating skills.
• Effectively build formal and informal relationship/networks inside and outside the organization.
• Curious and willing to learn beyond the Job Description.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 60

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Logistics/ Transportation/ Procurement jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 13 July 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 30-06-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 30-06-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 30-06-2065
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