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An exciting opportunity to join a growing Primary Diets technical team to ensure class leading products and technical support in all of our markets (UK and overseas).
With factories in four countries (UK, Poland, Spain and Denmark) the business aims to become an international leader in targeted markets in the nutrition for young farmed animals. The current portfolio consists of milk replacers, starter feeds, specialist raw materials, starter feed concentrates and feed additives.
In this varied role you will support the provision of R&D, product development, technical expertise and services across mostly pig and piglet feed and supplements. We are looking for someone who enjoys meeting with, building relationships and consulting with customers on farm.
Providing technical expertise to both our commercial teams and also customers directly whilst attending conferences to speak to wider audiences. As part of this role you will have the opportunity to be involved in research trials and data analysis, including new ground breaking trials at our own centre of excellence based in Spain.
What will you be doing
- Develop a strong understanding of the complete AB Neo portfolio of products and their potential application
- Provide both technical and commercial support (primarily UK but with some overseas)
- Work as part of both the wider Primary Diets and AB Neo technical teams to deliver leading Research and Development and apply this to relevant markets
- Represent the business by presenting at conferences, farmers meetings and other industry events
- Attending scientific conferences and relevant trade shows to ensure Primary Diets is informed as to current thinking and developments within the industry
- Facilitate rapid progress of technical projects through direct management of a project, or coordination of activity
- Work with others to ensure the highest standards of feed safety
What we’re looking for
- Experience of working for an animal feed business in a similar nutrition/technical support role
- Relevant scientific study at degree level would be beneficial but is not essential
- Recent graduate looking to apply their knowledge with relevant scientific study
- A good understanding/awareness of this market
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence across a wide ranging remit of stakeholders, customers and specialist internal teams
If you have a passion for animal nutrition and farming, and you want to be a valued member of a supportive and collaborative team, this could be a great first or next step into this industry, please don't hesitate to get in touch, apply today!
Our Benefits
- An attractive salary with annual review.
- Incentive bonus for everyone.
- Employer pension scheme.
- Enhanced benefit for holiday, family, carer, adoption and parental leave.
- Employee Assistance Programme.
- Discounts available on ABF sister company products.
- A company passionate about training, development and creating a truly inclusive culture where everyone can do their best work.
- A wide range of flexible, opt-in benefits including dental, private medical and personal travel insurance using salary sacrifice.
About The Company
We'reAB Neo a specialist business bringing together the expertise of four successful companies with the aim of revolutionising nutrition for all neonates. Bring your talents to AB Neo and play your part in producing affordable, high quality and responsible food for the growing global population.
We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading agricultural businesses. AB Agri is the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF PLC), a diversified international food, ingredients and retail group.
We’re working hard to be an inclusive organisation valuing diversity and different ways of thinking to keep us innovating, moving forward and most importantly being a great place to work for everyone. We have employee networks that help us to create an open culture, facilitate learning and discussion sessions and to celebrate important events.
We’ve worked with specialist partners to achieve our goals and verify our good practice, this has led to us being awarded as a Disability Confident employer and receive the Bronze Award from the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition scheme. We know that an inclusive environment makes us more accessible and ensures we attract, engage, promote, and retain exceptional people.
We are united by our family values that represent who we are, how we work together and how we help our customers.
- Pioneering – Curious, spirited and bold. We lead, the right way.
- Excellence – We seek excellence in all that we do.
- Growth – We create ways for our people and customers to thrive.
Our Hiring Process
- You’ve found our job advert, you're excited by the opportunity to make your mark and so you apply - today!
- We'll review your application and if there’s a match, we'll invite you to meet the team so they can ask their questions and you can ask yours.
- After interview we provide feedback and if it went well, we'll make an offer.
- We complete some pre-employment checks and get everything ready for you to start.
- You join us and become a valued member of our team.
Anything else I should know?
Please don’t delay making your application. We get a lot of applications and sometimes adverts close sooner than the date shown, seriously... don’t hesitate! Simply register your details and upload your CV via our career’s website – it usually takes just a few minutes.
We work hard to create unbiased and fair recruitment processes, so that we can support you to perform at your best please let our recruitment team know of any adjustments that may be required throughout the recruitment process.
As part of your application, we ask you to answer some equal opportunities questions that help us to monitor how inclusive our recruitment process is and identify areas we can improve in. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions with no impact on your application.
We are in beautiful rural locations, so you will have a great view for lunch, but it often means you will need to have your own transport to access our sites.
If you like what you've seen here and would like to find out more we'd love to hear from you. Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
