Summary

The primary responsibilities of this position are to involve sales activities in the business of import/export sales in the area of fresh/ frozen meat and other food items, to monitor the divisions’ accounts including revenue, expenses, and profits. This position often requires working non-traditional hours (evening and weekends depend on a situation) in order to successfully meet customers in Japan, or in Asia. This position also will require travel to mainly within U.S., Canada, Mexico & Japan.
Key Responsibility areas:
A. Trade with Japan and Domestic Customers.
1. Receive inquiries from customers, obtains and forwards offers from suppliers, and involved in price determination.
2. Receive orders from customers, sends Purchase orders to suppliers and confirms with customers.
3. Supervise export coodinators’ setting shipping-schedules, instructing shipping-vendors and oversee the shipping status being arranged.
4. Supervise reviewing status of Account-Payable and Account-Receivable, then follow up as necessary.
5. Negotiates and settles problems and claims as necessary.
6. Communicate with suppliers and customers to improve quality of the service and products.
7. Seeks to develop new businesses. Locate new products or services that would be of interests to the customers.
8. Monitor Meat Div. accounts, not only numbers of sales and purchases, but also profits and expenses, etc., and report to the managers.
9. Require business travels to out-of-town suppliers to inspect production sites and conduct related business negotiations, attend customers visit to production sites.
10. Entertain customers as needed.