Graduate Trading Support

Optima Recruitment

Fetcham

On-site

GBP 29,000 - 30,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Free parking
Health & wellness programs
35 days holiday

Job summary

Optima Recruitment Limited is seeking a Graduate Trading Support for an office-based role in Leatherhead. The position involves supporting the Trading team, engaging with customers, and contributing to pre-sales activities while gaining market and industry insights.

The role requires strong communication, analytical skills, and fluency in English, with opportunities for travel to the Middle and Far East. 35 days holiday, free parking, and a five-day workweek are included.

Qualifications

  • Ideally educated in relevant academic field or studying towards a degree in relevant academic field
  • High degree of integrity and attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills are essential
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Strong analytical skills
  • Solid communication skills and fluency in English, both written and spoken
  • Ability to work autonomously coupled with a desire to learn
  • A desire to work in a collaborative fast paced, dynamic and high growth technical environment
  • A natural problem solver coupled with being highly motivated
  • Excellent at follow-up, a team player with the ability to deliver within defined timeframes
  • Willing to travel periodically, sometimes internationally, based on customer and business

Responsibilities

  • Develop relationships with customers and internal teams to effectively support day-to-day support queries
  • Participate in technical pre-sales meetings with potential customers to sell products and services
  • Produce content including documentation and presentations, both at a non-technical and technical level
  • Engage with customers, sometimes face-to-face, to gather requirements, to identify product improvement opportunities
  • Monitor the competitive landscape to understand market opportunities and trends, products and commodity markets
  • Analyse product usage statistics and patterns to identify product improvement opportunities, which increase customer engagement and promote repeat product usage
  • Travel overseas to the Middle and Far East for face to face meetings with clients

Skills

Communication skills
Analytical skills
Fluent English
Team player
Autonomous working
Problem solving

Education

Degree in relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Graduate Trading Support
£28,500 Leatherhead Shift rotation Leading company Office based
Purpose of the Role:
  • Reports directly to the Head of Trading and will work as an integral part of the Trading team in all aspects to deliver to our clients and provide a superior user experience of the platform
  • You will gain insights from market and industry analyses, customer behavioural research and consider the rapidly changing technological landscape
  • You will be required at times to work collaboratively on sales trading, customer implantation, legal and development and will be comfortable engaging with customers in order to understand requirements and to provide customer support
  • You will cover the Trading desk as part of your daily duties
Job Description:
  • Develop relationships with customers and internal teams to effectively support day-to-day support queries
  • Participate in technical pre-sales meetings with potential customers to sell products and services
  • Produce content including documentation and presentations, both at a non-technical and technical level
  • Engage with customers, sometimes face-to-face, to gather requirements, to identify product improvement opportunities
  • Monitor the competitive landscape to understand market opportunities and trends, products and commodity markets
  • Analyse product usage statistics and patterns to identify product improvement opportunities, which increase customer engagement and promote repeat product usage
  • Travel overseas to the Middle and Far East for face to face meetings with clients
Person Specification:

Ideally educated in relevant academic field or studying towards a degree in relevant academic field

High degree of integrity and attention to detail

Excellent communication skills are essential

Proficiency in Microsoft Office

Strong analytical skills

Solid communication skills and fluency in English, both written and spoken

Ability to work autonomously coupled with a desire to learn

A desire to work in a collaborative fast paced, dynamic and high growth technical environment

A natural problem solver coupled with being highly motivated

Excellent at follow-up, a team player with the ability to deliver within defined timeframes

Willing to travel periodically, sometimes internationally, based on customer and business

Ideal But Not Essential:

Fluency in spoken and written Arabic

Additional Information:

£28,500 (rising to £30,000 on completion of a successful probationary period)

Office based

Free parking

5 day working week, Sunday to Friday (one day in week)

Shift work rota; 6am - 3pm, 7am 4pm, 8am 5pm

35 days holiday as public holidays, Christmas and New Year are worked

Health & wellness programs

35 days holiday (bank holidays are part of the working structure)

Refer a friend and earn £100! If you have a friend who is also searching for a new opportunity in the local area, recommend Optima and if we place them (providing they complete their 3-month probation period), you will receive a £100 retail voucher of your choice!

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