Trading Colleague

Orbia group; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a purpose-driven company that is committed to advancing life around the world. As a Trading Colleague, you will play a vital role in maintaining trading agreements and validating claims that support sustainable environments. This position offers the chance to work with a diverse team, tackling challenges in the building and infrastructure sector. With a strong focus on innovation and responsibility, you will contribute to meaningful projects that impact communities globally. If you are ready to make a difference and grow within a supportive environment, this role is for you.

Benefits

Competitive Compensation

Professional Development Opportunities

Diverse Work Environment

Qualifications

• Experience working with multi-dimensional partners like merchants and installers.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to self-manage.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain trading agreements and validate rebate claims.
• Update CRM with agreements and site information.

Skills

Organizational Skills

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Education

Experience in Administrative Role

Experience in Building Industry

Tools

Microsoft Office

CRM Software

Job description

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Join us at Wavin: Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Trading Colleague to join our team at Doncaster. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

Reporting to the Pricing Operations Manager, the Trading Colleague will be responsible for working closely with the National Developer Team, external sales force, installers/contractors and internal customers such as the Commercial Rebate team, the job holder is responsible for the creation and maintenance of all our developer/contractor trading agreements as well as the validation of all rebate claims made through these customers. This includes developer deals, tier 1 agreements, installer plot rebates, installer turnover agreements and price increase offset rebates. Also, the job holder must maintain the CRM database with all the agreements, site details and payments

The role

• Ensure all commercial agreements (National Housebuilder, Regional Housebuilder, Installer plot rebates, Installer turnover rebates & Tier 1 agreements) are created and issued to externals customers, maintaining strict governance protocols
• Upon receipt of signed documentation, replicate agreements on to CRM and log on to the Orbia Contracts site
• Maintain various reports covering all detail and payment history of all live agreements
• Issues all termination letters to various parties, including customers and internal sales teams
• Update CRM with all site information for validation purposes
• Validate all claims submitted, whether developer, installer or price-offset. Currently the bill for developer rebates is £33 million & the bill for installer rebates is £3 million
• Arrange all authorisations of validated claims, receipt of related invoices and payment of said invoices, providing all evidence of calculations and authorisations to the Finance teams
• To be flexible and amenable when working on projects
• To provide support to the external Sales Teams as and when required in a professional and efficient manner
• To develop and maintain a general knowledge of the customer base and marketplace
• To undertake any reasonable request within your capability for the benefit or the wider team or the Orbia business

The profile

• Working within a business that transacts with multi-dimensional partners, in essence; Merchant/Installers/Developers
• Working as part of a team but also being capable of self-management and using own initiative
• Good telephone manner
• Good organisational skills
• Good problem solving and decision-making skills
• Working in an office type environment, preferably within a Commercial function
• Experience of working in an administrative role within the building industry
• Excellent communication skills, both verbally and written
• Above average level in IT skills – (comfortable with Microsoft Office or equivalent) Excel, Word, Mail Merge documents & CRM

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.

DNC, GB

Time Zone: British Summer Time

Business Unit: BU Northern Europe Business Support (BU_

Functional Area: FA Commercial (FA_COM_01)