Fresh Produce Jobs

If your background is directly linked to working with fresh produce, then you could be suited to related roles such as a customer technologist or quality control auditor/manager, among other fresh produce jobs.

As a customer technologist, you will be responsible for consulting with customers to ensure their standards are communicated to suppliers and attained. You will also have a significant amount of customer and supplier interaction, providing resolutions to customer’s technical queries, maintaining and developing client relationships and developing procedures which will deliver seamless productivity between supply chain and retailers.

Quality control staff face many hands-on tasks and their roles will be ordained by safety procedures, quality control protocol and GMP measurements. Effective communication with other members of staff, including subordinates and senior members is essential for providing proactive solutions.

Other roles include sales and procurement. These fresh produce jobs are crucial for ensuring products get on the shelf and existing client relationships are maintained and new business developments are initiated. Within procurement, candidates will be expected to have existing knowledge of the fresh produce industry, in addition to effective negotiating systems and computer skills, particularly operating necessary software and spread sheets.

As a sales account manager you will be responsible for developing new client relationships and maintaining mutual satisfaction between existing clients. Ability to analyse sales and market trends to ensure that products are fit for the offering and that product potential is being maximised. It will also be beneficial to have experience in a fresh produce job.

Desirable Qualifications • Educated to a Bachelors level ideally in areas such as agriculture and food or finance and marketing for sales or procurement positions. • Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS) • Certificate in Quality Management and/or Level 5 Advanced (QCF) Yourfoodjob.com has over 1,000 positions live at any one time, so we can help you develop your food industry careers and give you the platform to maximise your potential and fulfil your ambitions. To register with Yourfoodjob.com click here.

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