Product Manager (Food Ingredients)
Fenris Personnel
- R40,000 - R45,000 per month
- Permanent Intermediate position
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Cape Town CBD
- Posted 29 Sep 2025 by Fenris Personnel
- Expires in 33 days
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Job 2623282
About the position
Well known ingredient supplier has a vacancy for a product manager who will source high quality ingredients for customers and in-house manufacturing. This would also require maintaining and growing local markets for the overseas principals, ultimately leading to short and long term profitability and growth for the business. Technical sales experience is essential, so too the understanding of functional food ingredients.
Responsibilities:
Formulating and implementing business plans and strategies per category and business division.
Achieving profitability targets.
Achieving growth targets.
Maintaining sound supplier and customer relations.
Liaising with suppliers, customers and internal stakeholders.
Work closely with supply chain including procurement and shipping.
Conduct and present market analysis with a view to exploiting new opportunities.
Conduct product testing to enhance the promotion of value added ingredients.
Requirements:
BSc Food Science/Dip Food Tech or similar
Fully bilingual (English & Afrikaans)
Technical Sales experience.
Ability to work in a high-pressured environment.
Computer literate (MS Office, Syspro, Skynamo, Qlikview)
Sound report writing & presentation skills.
Sound understanding of functional food ingredients
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
Desired Skills:
Fenris Personnel
About the agency
Fenris Personnel is a specialist recruitment agency in Roodepoort that services the FMCG, supply chain, scientific and manufacturing industries nationally. Our expert service covers varying disciplines within the technical, operational and commercial sectors.
Our business is people, and it is our vision to become the preferred specialist supplier of quality candidates to all industries that we service. We act as an intermediary body between our applicants and clients to ensure a wise and rewarding career choice that will be beneficial to both parties concerned.
We focus on building and maintaining solid relationships with our clients and applicants. We honour these relationships through honesty, integrity and ethical dealings, and align with businesses that share our values.
Fenris Personnel is backed by a strong team of passionate and service-driven recruitment professionals that have valuable industry experience. This enables us to demonstrate a thorough and professional understanding of the needs of both our clients and applicants, and deliver a recruitment solution that best fulfils those needs. We are an extension of your recruitment function and focus all of our energy into sourcing suitable candidates.
We act in the best interest of the client, and also of the candidate, at all times, and stringently comply with all APSO (Federation of African Professional Staffing Organisations) standards to offer a wholesome and fulfilling recruitment experience to all who choose to partner with us.
Vision, Mission and Values:
Vision:
Our vision is to be the preferred specialist employment agency who supplies quality candidates to the FMCG, manufacturing, supply chain, and scientific industries.
Mission:
Career Seekers: It is our mission to ensure that career seekers are given the most accurate career guidance and personalised service in order to help them achieve their career goals.
Clients: We pride ourselves in working ethically to ensure that we timeously recruit the best candidates who will fit the company culture of our clients.
Values:
At Fenris Personnel, we are committed to living these values in everything that we do:
• Build meaningful relationships with career seekers and clients.
• Treat people as individuals and have a genuine interest in their well-being.
• Have integrity.
• Work ethically with clients and career seekers.
• Have the candidate’s best interests at heart when recruiting.
• Keep candidate and clients updated regarding all feedback throughout the recruitment process.
• Act in the best interest of the client at all times.
• Offer exceptional service and turn-around time.
• Place candidates who add value to organisations.
• Consciously comply with all APSO standards.
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