Product Manager - Food Safety & Traceability

Skills :     Product Manager

Job Description:

Job#: 2026363

Job Description:

Overview

There is a Federal Mandate that all food that is consumed in the US has to have a traceability back to the origin. This mandate is getting more stringent.

Items requiring tracking are include raw materials from a farm, repackaging/relabeling, lot number, expiration date. Consistency with the labeling is required.

20-30 legacy systems need to be updated by 2025. These legacy systems have multiple and various issues that need updated. This person will go out to the plants and establish how product tracing is currently done (i.e. via excel spreadsheets, data bases, etc.) This person will need a general understanding of the law and food safety regulations, as they will be working directly with legal and plant food safety teams.

Product Management Experience Is Important, But Not Required.

Ideal candidates will have the following:

• experience in food safety, regulatory, and traceability;
• food manufacturing or food science experience.
• attention to detail

Looking for someone who is self-sufficient & self-driven.

Strongly prefer candidates within the following cities: Cincinnati, OH; Chicago, IL; Portland, OR; Charlotte, NC; San Jose, CA; or Boca Raton, FL.

Travel will be required at a maximum of 25%.

Job Responsibilities

Own and drive a legacy system product from defining current state, through design, to requirements, and finally delivery.

Facilitate within a larger cross-functional team to solve business problems.

Work with significant autonomy and freedom, requiring little oversight. This autonomy, however, will be within a broader strategy set by a Senior Product Manager and / or Group Product Manager

Demonstrate the company’s core values of respect, honesty, integrity, diversity, inclusion, and safety.

• Identify product requirements and future enhancements through collaborative engagements to support product strategies.
• Create, maintain and communicate product catalog roadmaps, including near-term delivery and 1-2 year product evolution, to engage stakeholders across the organization in aligning and supporting company and business unit strategies.
• Create highly collaborative cross-functional partnerships across a matrix organization.
• Identify, measure and improve key product catalog metrics to enhance the customer / user experience, and create a compelling, relevant product vision using web metrics, customer / user loyalty / insights, customer / user feedback / research and internal operational metrics
• Identify opportunities to create best-in-class capabilities by leveraging customer & user feedback and team knowledge / expertise in order to connect company strengths with available resources
• Develop a product plan and deliver breakthrough experiences to market by working with technical and non-technical partners;
• Model Agile principles by maintaining a groomed backlog and providing 1-N prioritization for backlog
• Set criteria for Minimum Viable Product to increase the speed / frequency with which enhancements and new capabilities are delivered
• Travel to work locations to attend company meetings
• Travel to interview / observe the users and / or customers

Minimum Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in food safety & food traceability
• 3+ years of experience in regulatory & food labeling
• Excellent oral / written communication skills and extreme attention-to-detail
• Ability to identify metrics / key performance measures and use data to drive decisions that enhance the customer & user experience
• Proficient Microsoft Office skills

Desired Requirements

• Any experience with iterative product development (Agile)
• Any product management experience with a multi-channel retailer

For immediate consideration, please forward your resume to [email protected] and reference Job ID #2026363

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Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at [email protected] (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Apex Systems.