Customer Success Manager - Agriculture & Environment; Fresh Produce

Join to apply for the Customer Success Manager - Agriculture & Environment (Fresh Produce) role at Foods Connected Ltd

2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants

Join to apply for the Customer Success Manager - Agriculture & Environment (Fresh Produce) role at Foods Connected Ltd

Direct message the job poster from Foods Connected Ltd

Foods Connected is a cloud based software platform that helps retailers, suppliers and food businesses globally manage their supply chain, quality control and trading and planning management. As a team, we provide tools that help our customers manage their processes in a fast and efficient way and provide real-time visibility and reporting on what is happening in their business.

At Foods Connected, we recognise that our employees are our most important asset and we value creating a great working environment to ensure our team enjoy coming into the office every day working together and solving problems for our customers. Whether we are in the middle of a fast and intense development sprint, on a team Skype call discussing our project statuses or enjoying a game of ping-pong or pool in the office, it is important to us that our employees are happy and delivering the best possible result for our customers.

We’re always keen to welcome talented individuals to join our team. So if you’re a natural planner, driven, with a passion for driving forward simple software solutions, creating great user experiences and customer satisfaction through organised, well managed processes then we’re looking for you!

THE ROLE

The Agriculture & Environment (Fresh Produce) Specialist will provide expertise and insight to customers across the food supply chain. You will utilise your subject knowledge to collect, interpret and analyse data related to sustainable farming practices, traceability and food safety. You will be the point of contact for Foods Connected customers on a range of Fresh Produce and Environmental matters.

Through collaboration with other teams, you will contribute to increasing the functionality contained within our tools and help our customers develop stronger practices to help their success implementing these policies moving forward. This role will be viewed as an extension of the Foods Connected services, you will work in a consultative manner with customers and suppliers across the UK, Europe and Globally.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Policy Review, Business Insight and Consulting
-80%

• Provide Customers with advice on sourcing, supply chains and production standards, associated sustainability considerations, research initiatives and policy development across a range of product categories.
• Utilise subject matter expertise (i.e. comprehension of production science, soil science, pesticide management) to undertaken comprehensive data analysis, interpretation and reporting to support customer initiatives, commitments and policy requirements.
• Benchmarking and horizon scanning of standards and practices pertinent to fresh produce production, including sustainability and food safety
• Keep updated on activity and engage with relevant NGOs to provide customer policy and standard recommendations
• Lead and implement programs, protocols, or policies to drive improvement in production practices/sustainability/ policies underpinning legislative changes.
• Through collaboration with the Project Management and Development teams, increase value gained from Foods Connected Data for improved decision making and transparency of standards.

Business Development-10%

• Identifying new opportunities within existing client portfolios.
• Contributing with our Business Development team to support proposals / Sows across our existing clients and new customers.
• Supports innovation through trend analysis, identifying new opportunities, developing novel ideas and/or participation in idea generation activities to improve company processes and services.

QUALIFICATIONS: EDUCATION, TRAINING, EXPERIENCE AND COMPETENCIES

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field and 5…