Fresh Produce Jobs UK

Location: Essex (East Anglia)

Salary: Dependent on experience

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in Essex, our client is a passionate grower/packer of fresh produce delivering substantial volumes into major supermarket customers. They are looking for an account manager to strengthen their commercial team.

The role:-
· Maintaining a strong relationship with one of their major retailer accounts
· Developing the business strategy with the senior team and then ensuring it is well implemented
· Working with the customer to maximise sales opportunities

The candidate:-
· Must have good communication and presentation skills
· Will ideally have had a experience of dealing with retailer account
· Fresh produce experience is preferred, but not essential

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: Circa £30,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client, a well known name in the floral market, has asked us to work on an exciting, newly formed role.

The role:-
· Working with the company and their customers to develop and coordinate technical trials
· Maintain working relationships at technical level within universities and industry organisations
· Keeping up to date with technological advances that could be applicable to the organisation

The candidate:-
· Must have the ability to work independently with a high degree of initiative
· Experience in technical management is a must, ideally from a horticultural background
· Must demonstrate excellent oral and written communication/presentation skills
· Will be able to travel both domestically and internationally

Location: Cambridgeshire (East Anglia)

Salary: £50,000 ~ £60,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in the East Midlands, our client is looking for a senior account manager to maintain and develop a number of their foodservice and independent retailer accounts. The company is a grower/supplier of fresh produce to a number of retail channels.

The role:-
· Managing and growing a number of important foodservice and discounter accounts
· Developing new accounts and growing the business
· Managing both the customer’s and companies expectations to ensure continued successful delivery of targets

The candidate:-
· Must have strong communication skills to manage the customers and the internal team
· Must have good experience of dealing with foodservice customers, ideally in the fresh produce sector
· Must have good attention to detail
· Will ideally have had man management experience

Location: East Midlands (East Midlands)

Salary: £30,000 ~ £35,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Based in the East Midlands, our client is a progressive and forward thinking grower and supplier of fresh produce, with a proven track record of success with the major multiples. They are looking for an account manager to strengthen their customer facing team.

The role:-
· Helping to manage the companies prepared produce account to one of their major multiple accounts
· Helping to develop and deliver the business plans for the company and retailer
· Working with the prepped team to ensure the category is in a strong position and heading in the right direction
· Continuously monitoring and analysing market data to help with developing action plans

The candidate:-
· Must have strong communication and presentation skills
· Must have keen attention to detail
· Must have experience of dealing with a multiple retailer account
· Prepared produce or ready meal experience would be a bonus. If not, fresh produce is preferred
· Should be ambitious with a keen desire to develop the role and category

Location: Cornwall (South West)

Salary: Dependant on experience

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a very progressive and adaptive fresh produce grower and supplier based in Cornwall. They are looking for a commercial manager to help them with their continued growth plans for the years to come.

The role:-
· Managing one or more of their major retailer accounts
· Communicating effectively with the retailers to ensure promises and obligations are met
· Ensuring sales opportunities are maximised, through analysis of sales data

The candidate:-
· Will have excellent commercial acumen and communication skills
· Must be driven and eager to succeed. Self motivated
· Experience of managing retail accounts within a fresh produce arena
· Good negotiations skills are essential

Location: Cornwall (South West)

Salary: Dependant on experience

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a very progressive and adaptive fresh produce grower and supplier based in Cornwall. They are looking for a commercial manager to help them with their continued growth plans for the years to come.

The role:-
· Managing one or more of their major retailer accounts
· Communicating effectively with the retailers to ensure promises and obligations are met
· Ensuring sales opportunities are maximised, through analysis of sales data

The candidate:-
· Will have excellent commercial acumen and communication skills
· Must be driven and eager to succeed. Self motivated
· Experience of managing retail accounts within a fresh produce arena
· Good negotiations skills are essential

Location: East Midlands (East Midlands)

Salary: £15,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

A fresh produce company requires an energetic and dynamic QC to join their team. This could be your first real QC role if you are interested in getting into fresh produce. Our client is a well known and very well regarded fresh produce supplier to the high street retail and foodservice sectors. The IDEAL candidate will possess: Flexible approach, Computer literacy and detail conscious. Although experience in a QC role is preferred this is not essential as full training will be given

Location: West Sussex (South East)

Salary: Flexible ~ flexible day rate + expenses

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is a major UK grower and are keen to develop their carrot growing operation. To this end, they are keen to engage the services of a very experienced 'carrot expert' to help ensure that they produce the best crop at all times and develop a reputation as innovators 'par excellence'. Role would be part time and could be project based or retained. The Client is very flexible.

Location: Dorset (South West)

Salary: £45,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Our client is an enthusiastic and progressive fresh produce company with exciting growth plans for 2012. Based on the South Coast, they are looking for an Account Manager to ensure a stable infrastructure is in place for the year to come.

The role:-
· Managing one or more of their retailer accounts, from major to convenience
· Continuing to develop their current product line but introducing other products to meet their exciting targets

The candidate:-
· Will ideally have had experience of managing retailer accounts
· Will have a background in fresh foods/grocery
· Will have good negotiation skills and a drive to build business

Location: East of England (East Anglia)

Salary: Circa £50,000

Job Type: Full-Time

Duration: Permanent

Reporting to Head of Technical, you'll be accountable for the development of technical and quality policies for the company's horticultural products. To have technical responsibility for the business involving key frontline business making processes. Support the Commercial Team with technical input and dialogue. Develop and maintain a good relationship with the customer Technologist which is critical to the role. Maintain and develop company technical and quality polices and strategies and implement them to meet customer due diligence requirements. Contribute towards development and delivery of the company's Business Plan.

Based in the East of England this company is one of the UK's premier importers and distributors of fresh produce (fruit and flowers).

The IDEAL candidate will possess:

• Degree calibre with strong a technical discipline.
• Highly competent manager with experience of influencing a technical workforce.
• Good understanding and interpersonal skills
• Managing relationships at all levels internally and externally.
• Enthusiasm and passion for all aspects of technical issues.