Trader Fruits
Westfalia Fruit is a leading multinational supplier of fresh fruit and related value-added products to global markets. Through the vertically-integrated supply chain, they grow, source, ripen, pack, process and market quality avocadoes & fresh produce – 365 days a year & across the globe. With the largest avocado-growing footprint in the world, they are recognised as the leading avoexperts and considered as the supplier of choice to both retail & wholesale customers whom they serve from sales offices in the UK, Europe, North America, Latin America & Southern Africa.
They are looking for a Commercial Fruit Trader to join the team in, Poeldijk, Netherlands. Come and join the leading avoexperts 🥑.
Trader Fruits
Position
A pro active avocado expert who knows the international market
- You are responsible for driving spot-market trading performance across the Dutch and wider European wholesale markets. Execute daily spot-market avocado trades across Europe, making rapid pricing and stock allocation decisions to maximise margin.
- Your role plays a critical part in maximising daily and weekly margins, managing real-time stock positions, and ensuring Westfalia maintains a competitive, agile presence within the highly dynamic avocado category.
- You are operating at the intersection of Customer (Sell) and Supply Chain (Move) and you work closely with the Commercial team.
- The role requires deep commercial instinct, exceptional market awareness, and strong negotiation capability to achieve rapid, profitable trading decisions within the fresh produce environment.
- Monitor live market conditions, pricing movements, and competitor activity to drive informed trading and commercial recommendations.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with wholesale customers, traders, ripeners, and brokers across European markets.
- Optimise stock usage by managing ageing, quality, and risk, ensuring the best route-to-market for every specification.
- You report to the Head of Sales Netherlands.
Profile
Passion for Sales and Fruits
Job requirements
- MBO4+/BsC working and thinking level.
- Relevant industry certifications in trading, commercial negotiation, or fresh produce operations (advantageous).
- Proven experience in fresh produce trading, ideally with exposure to exotics — strong preference for avocados and/or other high-value categories
- Demonstrated success in wholesale or spot-market trading environments across the Netherlands or Europe.
- Proficiency with trading/demand systems, stock management tools, and ERP systems (MS D365 advantageous).
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills.
- You already live and are settled in the Netherlands.
- Driver's license.
- You communicate clearly and fluently at all levels and you have an excellent command of English. If you have a good command of Dutch, German or other languages, this is an advantage.
Competences
- Strong numeric capability.
- Real-time decision-making skills.
- Resilient and decisive.
- Comfortable making rapid trading decisions under pressure.
- Strong entrepreneurial mindset.
- Pro Active.
- Flexible.
- Problem solver.
Location
Poeldijk, ABC Westland. Easily accessible from Rotterdam and The Hague via the A20, A4 and A13.
Offer
You will work 4 days per week in the office and 1 day there is a possibility for Home Office. This a fulltime job with a lot of freedom and responsibility in a fun, small and informal team. Salary that matches your experience, challenges and achievements. Employment conditions are appropriate to the position within this ambitious company, such as 26 holidays + national holidays, company pension schema, laptop + mobile phone.
React
Westfalia Fruit has outsourced the Recruitment and Selection for the vacancy of Trader Fruits exclusively to FreshRecruitment. For more information, please contact Jan Willem Tolhoek, who can be reached by phone on +31(0)6 821 831 03 and by email [email protected]. Applications exclusively via www.freshrecruitment.com.
Detailed information about the organization can be found at https://westfaliafruit.com/.
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