Supply & Sourcing Manager - Fresh Produce

The Opportunity

Are you organised, commercially minded and looking to develop your career within the fresh produce supply chain?

Our client works with a global network of UK and international fresh produce growers, supplying a range of produce formats and ingredients. They are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Supply & Sourcing Manager to join their growing team and help ensure the smooth movement of products from growers and suppliers through to customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a small, agile team where you'll gain exposure to multiple areas of the business, taking ownership of supplier relationships, customer orders, stock management and logistics coordination.

Working closely with the Commercial, Technical and wider operational teams, you'll play a key role in maintaining excellent service levels, resolving supply chain challenges and ensuring customers receive the right products at the right time.

You'll also benefit from ongoing training and development, with the opportunity to build your expertise and take responsibility for key customer and supplier accounts.

Key Responsibilities

Supply & Stock Management: Manage stock levels and supplier orders, maintaining regular communication with growers and suppliers to ensure product availability.

Customer Order Management: Coordinate daily customer orders, ensuring requirements are met accurately and consistently to maintain high service levels.

Logistics & Freight Planning: Prepare daily freight plans to ensure products arrive on time and customer orders are fulfilled efficiently.

Supplier & Grower Relationships: Build strong working relationships with UK and international growers and suppliers, resolving supply issues and supporting reliable product sourcing.

Customer Communication: Keep customers informed of changes, delays or supply chain issues, providing clear and timely updates.

Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Commercial and Technical teams to manage changes across the customer and supplier base.

Data & Systems Management: Maintain accurate information within the MRP system, including changes to pricing, product weights and other essential data.

Supplier & Customer Invoicing: Check supplier and customer invoices, ensuring discrepancies and customer debit notes are investigated and addressed promptly.

Forecasting & Crop Planning: Prepare weekly grower forecasts and support the development of grower crop programmes to align supply with anticipated demand.

Promotional Planning: Assist with planning and coordinating customer promotional volumes, ensuring supply requirements are met.

Supplier Performance: Work collaboratively with suppliers to resolve product availability and quality issues, helping maintain consistent service standards.

Despatch Coordination: Prepare and issue accurate picking and labelling instructions to service providers, ensuring the correct

What You'll Bring

Industry Interest: A genuine interest in fresh produce, sourcing, procurement or supply chain operations.

Numerical Skills: Strong numerical ability, with confidence working with stock figures, forecasts, pricing and order data.

Attention to Detail: A highly accurate and methodical approach to managing orders, product information and supply chain documentation.

Communication: Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills, with the confidence to liaise with customers, growers, suppliers and internal teams.

Organisation & Planning: Strong planning skills and the ability to coordinate multiple orders, deliveries and priorities simultaneously.

Problem-Solving: A practical, solutions-focused approach to resolving supply chain challenges and supplier issues.

Commercial Awareness: The ability to understand customer requirements, supplier relationships and the importance of maintaining service levels.

Working Pattern: Benefit from a rolling four days on, four days off shift pattern once training has been completed. The initial training period is approximately nine months, working five days per week.

If you're a motivated and organised individual with strong numerical skills, excellent attention to detail and an interest in fresh produce supply chains, we'd love to hear from you