Trading Executive (Recycling)

Location: Mackay, Queensland, Australia; hybrid field-based role with regular customer visits, site visits, and office attendance approximately one day per week

Salary: A$140,000–A$145,000 per annum

Company

Join a national recycling and resource recovery business that collects and processes scrap metal for steelmaking operations and global markets, with a focus on sustainability and Australia's circular economy.

What you will do

• Manage and grow existing customer accounts while identifying and converting new business opportunities across the Mackay region.
• Purchase and procure ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal.
• Build long-term customer relationships, negotiate commercial arrangements, and increase volumes and customer base growth.
• Coordinate customer deliveries to nominated processing facilities and work with internal stakeholders on customer and delivery outcomes.
• Monitor market conditions, maintain accurate account and procurement information, and manage the territory, diary, and workload autonomously.

Requirements

• Strong experience in sales, account management, business development, or trading.
• Proven ability to negotiate, build commercial relationships, identify and convert new opportunities, and retain customers.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with confidence dealing with customers at all levels.
• Resilient, proactive, results-driven, commercially minded, and able to work independently.
• Ability to manage a personal schedule effectively and spend most working time in the field.
• Current driver's licence and willingness to undertake regular customer visits.

Nice to have

• Experience in scrap metal, recycling, waste management, resources, or a related industry.

Culture & Benefits

• Permanent, full-time position in a highly autonomous, field-based working environment.
• Office attendance approximately one day per week, with flexibility and autonomy during the remainder of the working time.
• A$12,000 remote area allowance, a 5% annual salary incentive paid quarterly based on company performance, and a fully maintained company vehicle.
• Opportunity to contribute to an established recycling business focused on sustainability and resource recovery.