Trading Operations Manager

Vanilla Steel GmbH; Berlin; Vor Ort; EUR 40.000 - 70.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

An innovative start-up in Berlin is seeking a Trading Operations Manager to streamline and enhance trading processes in the industrial metals sector. This role will involve managing order bookings, logistics, invoicing, and compliance, all while fostering a collaborative and fast-paced work environment. You will play a crucial part in transforming the traditional trading industry with digital solutions that improve efficiency and customer satisfaction. If you are passionate about operations and ready to make an impact in a growing company, this opportunity is for you.

Leistungen

Urban Sports Club membership

BVG Ticket subsidized

Regular team building events

Company breakfasts

Friday drinks

Qualifikationen

• 2 years experience in trading operations for physical goods.
• Familiarity with B2B invoicing processes and customs procedures.

Aufgaben

• Booking orders and issuing confirmations in ERP system.
• Sourcing logistics quotes and managing steel delivery.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory reporting and invoicing.

Kenntnisse

B2B Trading Operations

Logistics Management

Excel / Google Sheets

Quantitative Skills

Communication Skills

Understanding of Incoterms

Payment Terms Management

Jobbeschreibung

As Trading Operations Manager, you will join the team full-time and work with other Operations Managers and the sales team with the mandate of flawlessly executing negotiated and booked orders, covering processes from order confirmations to delivery to invoicing and payments. Specifically this will include :

• Booking orders into our ERP system and issuing order confirmation documentation
• Sourcing logistics quotes and handling steel & metal delivery within Europe (by truck or rail) or to export markets (by sea) through our network of shipping companies
• Collaborating with our factoring partners to ensure deal financing when required
• Revenue operations - issuing invoices, processing incoming invoices, processing and tracking payments, managing overdue invoices
• Ensuring statutory reporting compliance including VAT declarations and Intrastat reporting
• Ensuring we maintain an updated and relevant network of logistics partners to provide truck delivery across Europe
• Automating existing process workflows to reduce manual work and improve process stability and scalability

Your profile

• 2 years experience in trading operations in a B2B trading environment for physical goods (commodities, ideally metals)
• Understanding of commodity(metal) trading processes and documents
• Experience with truck and ship logistics, including an understanding of incoterms and risk transfer
• Familiarity with legal requirements regarding regional and export shipments and respective documentation
• Knowledge of customs procedures, including simplified customs authorizations and documentation handling.
• Understanding of payment terms and experience actively managing receivables
• Familiarity with B2B invoicing processes
• Experience with handling customer claims in a physical goods / trading environment
• Advanced knowledge in Excel / Google Sheets
• Strong quantitative skills - able to handle large amounts of data
• Strong track record of achievements
• Solid organizational and time management skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Why us?

• Ownership of projects with a focus on outcomes rather than time-tracking
• Fast-paced yet collaborative culture fostering individual performance and teamwork
• Competitive compensation based on experience
• Urban Sports Club membership or BVG Ticket subsidized
• Beautiful office located in the heart of Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
• Regular team building events, company breakfasts and Friday drinks

About us

We are a Berlin-based start-up that has successfully established a leading B2B marketplace for industrial metals across Europe.

The multi-billion-euro metal trading industry is operated on Excel, PDF and Email. We are on a mission to transform buying and selling in one of the oldest industries of the modern world with seamless and intuitive digital solutions. Our technologies increase liquidity, accelerate transactions, reduce scrapping rates and enhance buying convenience for hundreds of steel and metal distributors across Europe.

As a lean team of young, international, and passionate talents, we've recently reached breakeven and are gearing up for the next phase of growth. We are looking for an outstanding individual who wants to join an exciting early stage start-up.