Trading Colleague - #195057

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in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.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 an Trading Colleague to join us 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 work 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. The job holder must also maintain the CRM database with all the agreements, site details and payments.

The role

E nsure 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.

Issue 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.

The profile

Experience working within a business that transacts with multi-dimensional partners i.e. Merchant/Installers/Developers.

Experience working in an office environment, preferably within a Commercial function.

Experience working as part of a team but also be capable of self-management and working autonomously.

Strong organisational skills and ability to work under pressure.

Confident with decision-making and solving problems.

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office, namely Excel and Word. Mail Merge and experience with CRM is also advantageous.

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 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.