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
• good critical thinking skills

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 * Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation 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 experien