Poultry Account Manager

Job Title: Poultry Account Manager

Location: Home-based with UK travel

Contract and Shift details: Permanent, Monday – Friday 37.5 hours per week (Flexibility is necessary – overnight stays will form part of the role.

Perhaps you are already working in a similar industry, regularly speaking with farms or farmers across the UK?

This is an active, customer-focused role where the responsibilities are wide-ranging. If you're ready to engage in the poultry feed sector, apply today!

Role Overview:

The role is a poultry account management position that has evolved beyond a traditional sales representative role, requiring a multifaceted approach to customer interactions across different departments and species.

The position involves managing a mature customer ledger that encompasses multiple poultry species, including chickens, turkeys, and ducks.

A typical day is characterised by being active and unpredictable, with the account manager serving as the primary interface between the company and customers.

The role demands effective communication skills, with responsibilities extending beyond simple transactions to addressing a wide range of issues.

Key expectations:

• The ability to quickly absorb and translate complex information and demonstrate curiosity in understanding intricate details.
• The account manager is expected to be capable of interfacing with multiple company departments while maintaining a customer-centric approach.

Key skills and experience:

• Communication skills are the top priority, with the ability to interact across multiple departments and translate complex information for customers.

• Solid knowledge and understanding of agricultural industry issues and monogastric production supply chains is crucial.

• Ideal candidates should have experience managing multiple stakeholders, such as area farm managers who manage numerous different farms.

• Passion for agriculture is more important than technical business planning skill.

Additional Information:

• A valid UK driving licence is essential.
• Flexibility to work varied hours and accommodate overnight stays when necessary.

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

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.