Product Manager - Fruits

Location: Groot-Bijgaarden, Belgium

Company

hirify.global develops food solutions and promotes innovation across its global network, with a focus on food innovation, sustainability, and customer-relevant products.

What you will do

• Manage and optimize the global fruit product portfolio, including pricing, profitability, SKU management, benchmarking, lifecycle management, and portfolio simplification.
• Monitor customers, competitors, consumer trends, market developments, and pricing dynamics to identify actionable business opportunities.
• Translate sourcing expertise, grower partnerships, crop knowledge, and responsible sourcing initiatives into clear Field-to-Fork value propositions.
• Support customer visits, seminars, innovation workshops, field trips, and internal events with business-oriented product content and storytelling.
• Contribute to short-, mid-, and long-term innovation opportunities by connecting market insights, fruit technologies, sustainability, health, and local market needs.
• Coordinate cross-functional projects, action plans, milestones, and follow-up across R&D, sourcing, operations, supply chain, finance, sales, marketing, and local product teams.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Engineering, or a related field.
• Relevant experience in product management, marketing, portfolio management, business development, market intelligence, or communication.
• Strong marketing intelligence skills and the ability to assess consumer trends, competitor activity, market needs, portfolio opportunities, and pricing.
• Curiosity for technical product knowledge and the ability to translate R&D information into clear, customer-focused messages.
• Strong project management, prioritization, milestone tracking, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Fluent English and confidence working with multicultural, cross-functional stakeholders.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive global workplace focused on diversity, equal opportunities, innovation, team spirit, and continuous improvement.
• Meal vouchers worth €10 per day.
• Fully paid group, dental, and hospitalization insurance.
• Company car and bonus.
• Minimum five training days per year and a range of health and wellbeing benefits.
• Opportunity to take ownership of responsibilities in a dynamic work environment.