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Foreign Trade Specialist
About this role
The job is for a Foreign Trade Specialist based in Abuja, full-time, with responsibilities across sourcing and purchasing agricultural commodities, identifying international buyers, negotiating trade deals, handling import/export documentation and shipping, and ensuring regulatory compliance to support growth and profitability. The role involves engaging with international suppliers and buyers, tracking orders and payments, monitoring market trends and prices, and coordinating with freight forwarders, banks and agents. The successful candidate will manage trade records, prepare reports, and ensure smooth execution of trade transactions from order to delivery. It requires substantial experience in foreign trade or related fields and relevant academic qualifications. The employer, Direkci Group, operates within international trade of agricultural commodities and related goods.
What you would do
- Identify international buyers and markets for the company's commodities and processed products
- Follow up on orders, payments, customer requirements, and outstanding transactions
- Build and maintain relationships with international suppliers, buyers, distributors and partners
- Identify opportunities to expand international markets, improve profitability and reduce costs
- Prepare reports on trade transactions, prices, shipment status, costs and market opportunities
- Identify and source agricultural commodities and related products from local and international suppliers
- Monitor commodity prices, exchange rates and market trends to identify opportunities
- Handle import and export transactions from order placement to shipment and customs clearance
- Negotiate contracts, payment terms and delivery conditions
- Liaise with freight forwarders, shipping lines, customs agents, banks, suppliers and buyers
What they are asking for
- 5 – 7 years of relevant experience in foreign trade, import/export, commodity trading or international procurement
- BSc or HND in International Trade, International Business, Business Administration, Supply Chain Management or a related field
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