National Commercial Seafood Manager

1 week ago

Melbourne, Australia PFD Food Services Full time

**Knoxfield Location**:

- **Full time role with a 100% Australian owned, national food service company**:

- **Key business leadership role**

PFD Food Services began life in 1943 amid the noise and chaos of the Melbourne Fish Markets. Expanding rapidly to meet the demand of an ever growing customer base, we are Australia’s largest family operated Foodservice company with over 800 company owned trucks and customer service focused drivers making daily deliveries.

With an extensive range of fresh meat and seafood, together with frozen products, drygoods, paper products and cleaning solutions for the Foodservice Industry, PFD has proven their unwavering commitment to their customers and are considered a source of innovation, a provider of insight, a solver of problems. In 2021 PFD formed a partnership with another proud Australian company, Woolworths Group.

**The Role**

The National Seafood Manager - Commercial will be responsible for identifying and driving national buying opportunities in the fresh and frozen seafood segments of PFD.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Management of national Seafood category
- Management of national Frozen and Fresh Seafood category
- Management of contracts and strategic partnerships
- Management of supplier pricing, trading terms, rebates, KPI’s, promotional activity
- Category management, brand assets, product range
- Development and execution of procurement strategies
- Identification of profit improvement initiatives
- Provide leadership and direction to internal stakeholders and sales teams.
- Providing key market information on raw material supply, product availability, trend analysis, market updates and pricing.
- Focus on growing sales and margin, management of key seafood accounts.
- Source products and pricing for national tenders.
- Project management of key seafood initiatives and projects

**Key Competencies, Skills and Qualifications**
- Experience in a purchasing environment
- Experience in effective decision making and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication, negotiation and relationship building skills
- Strong organization and time management skills
- Accurate, and have an attention to detail.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team
- Strong interpersonal skills, ability to communicate at all levels.
- Ability to develop relationships with key stake holders (specifically with Suppliers, Customers, General Managers, PFD Group Leaders, Employees).
- A strong understanding of operations, production, supply chain of the Seafood industry.

We are offering competitive remuneration, superannuation and other staff benefits (such as discounts on staff purchases, discounted accommodation, health insurance and banking).

As part of our recruitment process, do you agree to undertake employment checks? These checks may include a medical assessment (including a drug and alcohol test), National Police History Check, Working With Children/Vulnerable Groups Check, Licence Validation/Demerit Point Check.
- Please note: We do not accept unsolicited CV's from Recruitment agencies / third parties and we will not be liable or responsible for any fees or costs associated with unsolicited CV's sent directly to Line Managers._

**PFD Food Services is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer

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