Vacancy

Glasgow

Commercial Trainee

The organisation:

Part of Cefetra Group, Cefetra Limited is one of the major traders of grains and animal feed raw materials in the UK and Ireland.

With long-term arrangements at strategically selected import facilities with a specialised network of suppliers, objective market analysis and a trusted approach to quality and sustainability, it is ideally positioned to meet customer requirements whilst reducing risk and increasing efficiency.

With 700,000 tonnes of storage capacity supported by state-of-the-art processing technology, the business dispatches between 85,000 – 90,000 tonnes of raw materials to industry partners every week and delivers up to 600 lorry loads per day. Its products are used for animal feed and throughout the food and drink sector, supplying product to some of the largest food producers in sectors such as dairy, beef, lamb, poultry, pork, salmon, beer, bread, biscuits, breakfast cereals and pet food.

Parent organisation ‘Cefetra Group’ delivers more than 25 million tonnes of agri-feed per annum and is Europe’s largest agri-service and trading business, serving customers from its 29 offices in 19 different countries, with revenues of over €4 billion.

The Opportunity

The candidate will support the Import Trading Desk by taking responsibility for and improving its commercial functionality. Following training the Commercial Trainees primary task will be to contact customers with prices on a regular basis, with the aim of generating new business. The Commercial Trainee will report directly to the Trading Managers and will receive on-the-desk training in the trade of global agriculture commodities. In time, the role will progress to take on more commercial and trading responsibility, including helping shape company strategy, and product Profit & Loss ownership.