Overall Purpose and Objective of Position
As a Trade Assistant for the Downstream Coffee team at Louis Dreyfus Company, you will provide vital support to the Commercial team by managing day-to-day operations, facilitating communication between stakeholders, and ensuring seamless execution of transactions. This role requires strong organizational skills, data management and entry, reporting/analyzing and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. The role will focus on Europe inc Russia
Primary Responsibilities/Essential Functions
- Act as a coordination link between sales, trading, freight / execution teams, factories and customers to ensure timely and accurate execution of trades
- Manage new customer onboarding (profile creation, compliance, credit checks), coordinating with sales teams to collect required documentation
- Assist sales team with follow-up on sales, shipments, position reporting, sample requests, AR reporting, etc.
- Assist sales teams with internal reporting, coordinate the preparation of weekly commercial call and ad‑hoc commercial analyses
- Support accurate trade data entry and maintenance across systems (contracts in Atlas, allocations, CRM, sales planning file...) Help manage customer relationships and respond to inquiries as a support to the sales team
Additional Responsibilities
- Work closely with the sales team and other departments to streamline processes and improve efficiencies.
- Support organization of trade shows participation
- Ad-hoc projects and day-to-day tasks to be assigned.
Company Conformance Statements
In the performance of their respective tasks and duties all employees are expected to conform to the following:
- Perform quality work within deadlines with or without direct supervision.
- Interact professionally with co-workers, Company business associates and the general public.
- Work together in a cooperative spirit to serve the best interests of the Company.
- Operate in fully responsible manner and comply with the law and Company policy.