Product Manager

A growing manufacturing business is searching for a Product Manager in the greater Sittingbourne area.

Your Role
While in this position your duties may include but are not limited to:

• Promoting a positive and professional image to colleagues, customers, and suppliers across all interactions.
• Supporting operational excellence by fostering efficiency, accountability, and clear communication.
• Ensuring SLA adherence and collaboration with ISS, aligning with EFC business objectives.
• Maintaining and communicating quality standards across ISS and 3rd party sites, including ripening, packing, and labelling.
• Monitoring and managing product quality throughout the ISS facility, including returns, rejections, and utilisation plans.
• Conducting daily site walks to review product conditions, food safety, stock quality, and operational standards.
• Providing continuous feedback to suppliers and internal teams to drive product quality improvements.
• Taking ownership of stock allocation and product ripening, ensuring accurate use and minimal waste.
• Collaborating with commercial and technical teams on claims, stock utilisation, and product re-inspections.
• Assisting in order management with the sales team and providing depot-specific stock recommendations.
• Supporting compliance and audits including BRC, TFS, Organic, and Ethical standards, as well as internal audit schedules.
• Coordinating and analysing product testing, including shelf life, residue, and micro-testing schedules.
• Participating in process improvement efforts to enhance KPIs and operational efficiency.
• Supporting supplier and customer visits, including UK and international travel, and document findings.
• Contributing to seasonal reviews, reporting accuracy, and end-of-season assessments to drive ongoing product improvements.

You MUST Have:
Please apply ONLY if you meet the following criteria:

• Excellent experience within a Product Quality and Management role
• Exposure to a food manufacturing environment
• Exposure to stock handling
• Familiarity of requirements for quality control
• Excellent communication skills
• Experience handling risk assessments, incident reporting and inspections

Your Opportunity:
This business has decades of experience within the food manufacturing industry, becoming a leader within their market and offering a vast range of products and services to their clients. This role will be primarily focussed on providing the best quality products for dispatch, looking after a range of categories and ensuring that any quality issues are identified and handled professional and promptly.

The business is offering a competitive starting salary, depending on relevant experience. Alongside this, there will be additional benefits including an enhanced annual leave allowance and very good pension contribution, supplemented by other incentives including a bonus potential of up to 10%, and a range of additional benefits. Additionally, there will be plenty of scope to progress within this role as the business continues to grow and you will be given the tools to expand your knowledge and skillset.

If this opportunity interests you then please do not hesitate to reach out to:

Shauna Murphy - Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist

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