Trade & Engagement Manager - Food & Agriculture (Remote) at Tridge

About Tridge:

Tridge is a global agricultural trading platform that makes cross-border trade easy and frictionless. With our proprietary global sourcing hub, we go beyond matching buyers and sellers of 15,000 agricultural goods. This is facilitated through our one-stop fulfillment service that includes due diligence, supplier certificate verification, contract negotiation, packaging, shipping, customs, and many more. Powering the global sourcing hub is our data and intelligence services. Our exclusive database covers 11 million data points of agricultural goods and collects 50,000 data points each day. With greater transparency and real-time updates in price, quality, and trade volumes, Tridge removes the information asymmetry prevalent in many markets.

Job Description:

A Trade & Engagement Manager at Tridge will be Responsible for:

Engage Buyers and Suppliers: You will contact and invite suppliers and buyers to Tridge. As the local representative of Tridge, you will deliver the key benefits of using Tridge platform and help them register on the Tridge platform.
Build Strong Relationships: You will communicate consistently with suppliers and buyers who have partnered with Tridge. As the Sales Manager, you will ensure that the platform experience is pleasant and effortless for the suppliers and buyers.
Collect Intelligence: You will collect the most up-to-date market information through communicating with suppliers and buyers. You will also conduct comprehensive market research to strengthen Tridge’s market intelligence.
Cultivate Market Data Credibility: You will evaluate the supplier's credibility based on the measurements and guidelines provided by Tridge.
Any other tasks that are necessary for maintaining the Tridge system and business partnership

We deeply care about the Personality and Values of each of our team members and even more importantly about those in key leadership positions. We would like to work who is with the following:

Pursuing authenticity of their work and mission and engaging in good faith
Obsessive to close a deal and to achieve the target goal
Care about the people with whom they work
Live with a high-level purpose in life
Passion for communicating, negotiating, and developing close relationships with people
Share the vision with the Tridge team about achieving and delivering an equilibrium in the global agricultural commodities markets
Born with integrity and capable of operating with high self-discipline
Pursuit of entrepreneurship in a fast-growing organization with high authority as well as discipline

We are of a balanced view in considering the Qualifications for this position rather than expecting all of these attributes to be demonstrated from any one single individual:

+5 years of experience in sales or business development
Knowledge in the major industries of the trading business of the following industries: Agriculture(especially raw cashew nut and sesame seed) and Aquaculture(Fish farming and processing).
Technology Savvy
Outstanding verbal and written communication skills in the local language (Swahili and English)
Living in the country where you are applying for this position (somewhere in Tanzania)
Spoken and written English skill of business level or higher recommended
Experience & knowledge in sales or procurement in the food trading business
Understanding of sales or procurement in the global trade business
College degree or equivalent work experience
Ability to adapt quickly to the fast-paced working environment
Capability to handle multiple works with great time-management skills and responsibility

Working at Tridge provides the following Extra Benefits:

Work from Home: You will be engaging directly with suppliers and buyers. You will be working in your region and reporting remotely to the Operations Team of Tridge HQ.
Career Advancement: You will enhance career skills by encountering and overcoming challenges in working with the fast-growing team. Join us in our mission to make disruptions and solve inefficiencies in the traditional trading industry.

Get to know more about Tridge from our press release:

https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.forbes.com/sites/rubyleung/2021/07/13/softbank-backed-korean-agriculture-marketplace-valued-at-500-million-after-latest-funding/amp/