Reporting to the Branch Manager, you will be responsible for managing sales, inventory & driving performance of agricultural merchandise. In addition, you will:

• Work closely with store management, agronomists, and sales teams, providing merchandise support such as stock takes, retail operations improvements, on farm meetings, technical information and mentoring to encourage improved performance.
• Have input to branch budgets and manage the branch P&L.
• Negotiate with suppliers and develop pricing strategies, oversee stock levels.
• Conduct marketing initiatives with the aim of maintaining the businesses competitive position for all lines.
• Monitor and analyse market trends, climatic and seasonable considerations.
• Product promotions- Delivering new chemistry/products to customer

To be successful, you will have a strong technical background with experience in a similar role. In addition, you will demonstrate:

• Experience within pricing and margin management and sales target achievement through effective category development.
• Ability to network and identify opportunities for business development.
• Strong interpersonal skills to foster solid long-term relationships.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.
• Exposure to SAP ERP, together with strong MS Excel for reporting.
• Current Drivers Licence (Essential).
• Forklift and heavy rigid licence (Desirable)