KW Farm Team - Feed Specialist - 2 locations, North West & South West (Ruminant)

Location: Regional roles covering the South West area (Bristol, Bath, Hampshire and Devon) OR North West (Lancashire and Cumbria), on average 2 - 3 days per week travelling

Are you a commercial, driven and knowledgeable sales specialist? Would you like to join our growing Dairy division at an exciting time as we continue to expand our product and solution offering to the dairy farming industry?

This is a unique role working in our commercial KW Feed Sales team that will involve going out to our farm customers to build long term relationships, offering feed and nutrition recommendations and solutions. Your focus will be to build relationships with targeted farmers in your area, find solutions to the technical and nutritional needs of their herd and create a high value partnership for the farmer and KW.

We are looking for candidates with either proven farm sales experience or the ability to rapidly develop the farm and ruminant knowledge required alongside clear sales skills. The right candidate will, following any required training, become responsible for managing an existing portfolio of clients whilst also looking to build on this with new business development across your region.

What you'll be doing:

• Create, communicate and gain senior stakeholder agreement to a compelling 3-year growth plan for the sales region.
• Ensure the delivery of the sales plan in partnership with key stakeholders to achieve budgetary targets; sales margins and volumes in the region to maximise business performance
• Working closely with KW Retail team where leads and prospects have been identified within the wider dairy division; collaboration between teams where commercial opportunities can be shared will be crucial
• Understand strategic products and co-products within the area to help maximise profitability
• Take ownership for the territory and ledger, ensuring collaboration with regional and functional teams.
• Share up to date market knowledge with colleagues enabling Feed Ingredients to maximise potential market opportunities.
• Contribute to a culture within the sales team where collaboration and sharing of knowledge between colleagues offers opportunities for best practice within the team.

What you'll bring:

• ‘Solution based’ selling skills, attributing value to customer benefits.
• Good commercial negotiator, with experience in an agricultural D2F sales role.
• Analytical with good commercial awareness.
• Maintained a progressive network with industry influencers.
• Ability to develop influential relationships at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Great communication, interpersonal and presentation skills with the ability to sell concepts in a compelling way.
• Understanding of business drivers with the ability to translate that knowledge to cohesive plans.
• In depth understanding of the fundamental drivers of the UK ruminant industry.
• Thrives working in a target driven environment with a pro-active approach.

As a key part of this team you will gain the opportunity to build a wide ranging network with farmers, market professionals, experts and partners in the dairy industry whilst attending high profile dairy conferences and regular market and technical insight updates.

We are able to offer the opportunity to train, develop and progress your career with a high growth, global business with sustainability and animal health at the heart of everything we do.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.