Commercial Coordinator

SUMMARY:
We have a position available for a Commercial Coordinator with fruit industry experience in the Northern Suburbs.

POSITION INFO:
Minimum Requirements Grade 12 Relevant tertiary qualification More than 3 years experience from the fruit industry Willing to work over time and weekends in season Duties and Responsibilities: Maintain freight rates, shipping costings and selling prices in the relevant systems and records. Monitor seasonal shipment programmes, fixed client programmes and actual shipment volumes against forecasts. Compile and distribute weekly client shipment reports and internal loading statistics. Capture and file purchase orders and provide procurement with weekly order summaries for packing allocations. Handle client queries relating to orders, stock availability, logistics, labelling, pricing and shipping documentation. Coordinate special-market labelling, import permits, shipping instructions and related documentation with clients and pack houses. Reconcile physical stock against system records daily, investigate discrepancies and flag ageing stock. Review shipping summaries, identify discrepancies and communicate relevant changes to clients. Provide producers with weekly market updates and pricing information in accordance with fixed-price agreements. Monitor packing progress against confirmed orders, coordinate stock allocations and transfers, and prepare load-out instructions to ensure timely shipment. When applying, ensure your CV is in WORD or PDF format, and not scanned. Our software will not be able to match you to positions if it is scanned, therefore you might never get feedback from us. Scanned cv's will not be considered. Please accept your application as unsuccessful if you had no feedback within 7 days of applying. We regret that due to the high volume of applications received, we are unable to acknowledge every application. We will keep your CV on our database and match to other suitable positions, but this won't be possible if your CV was scanned. We will contact you in future should you match a different position. PLEASE NOTE: We use Placement Partner to track and manage applications and can only accept online applications. We do not accept any applications by email. If you are unable to apply through the link we have provided, please upload your CV to our website We reserve the right to stop\/renew adverts. By applying to our adverts, you accept our POPI Act policy, a copy which be found on our website.