We are looking for a Fruit Marketer within the fruit/agriculture industry. This is not a digital marketing/social media role.

Minimum Requirements

1. Grade 12
2. Formal tertiary qualification preferred
3. At least 3 years experience in marketing of FRUIT in the fruit/agriculture industry
4. Middle East, Asia, Europe experience
5. Willing to travel to clients when needed

 
Duties and Responsibilities:

• Discuss with markets/clients their product needs
• Advising Area manager on product required for sourcing
• Market report and research
• Marketing and procurement of various produce
• Building and maintain strong relationships with clients
• Global marketing of fresh fruit
• Global market development, including market research, liaison with potential new customers and make recommendations to the board.
• Maintenance of customer database and annually review and rate client performance and update the database.
• Confirm daily container bookings and loading dates with service providers, allocate stock in the software system and instruct logistics to send out loading instructions according to the SOP
• After each packing season, analyze sales results per client
• Meet with sales to discuss and draft the next week's packing instructions once a week.
• Analyze weekly vessel options and ocean freight rates and summarize in the costing model
• Receive the weekly SA loading data, summarize into the weekly loading report and send to management, procurement and clients

 
PLEASE NOTE:  Thank you for your interest in this position, we will review and be in touch if you are suitable. Due to the amount of applications we receive for each position, we are unable to respond to each one individually. Please accept your application as unsuccessful if you had no feedback within 7 days of applying. Your CV will remain on our database and we will be in touch for other suitable positions.
 
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