Sustainable Crop Production Placement 2024

Frontier is the UK's leading crop inputs and grain marketing business, recognised for its close customer relationships with farmers and grain consumers and its successful management of the whole arable supply chain.

Frontier is pleased to confirm that we will be offering a placement for 2024 – 2025. The placement will commence in July 2024 for a period of 12 months. The successful student will have the unique opportunity to work in key areas of the Frontier business in our sustainable crop production team.

Placement details

This placement, titled sustainability has an overarching link with commercial teams, such as Agronomy and Trading. The placement will involve opportunities throughout the year to learn more about this link and experience these areas of Frontier and how they depend on and interact with each other for the customer.

Sustainable Crop Production

Technical Support, based at Sandy, Bedfordshire and travelling to sites in England will be required on occasion. Full role training plus mentoring support throughout the year from a member of the HR team.

• Work as part of the Sustainable Crop Production team within commercial and technical functions, including agronomy, as well as knowledge exchange
• Assist with administrative tasks on commercial projects, including liaising with partner farms to collect data, data inputting for carbon calculators and record keeping and organisation
• Assistance with organisation of meetings, events and workshops
• Desk based research of sustainability related topics, collating and feeding back findings
• Conduct market research to explore commercial opportunities around sustainability related subjects such as carbon markets and the use of biostimulants
• Assist with internal and external knowledge exchange

Personal requirements

We are looking for individuals with confidence, enthusiasm and initiative to inspire others and strive for innovation and change. With a proactive nature, you will be required to build effective working relationships inside and outside the business.

In a rapidly changing environment, you must be ready to work hard, take on new challenges and turn your ideas into reality. Analytical, hands-on qualities with positive and resilient characteristics are essential to Frontier.

With support from directors, managers, and colleagues you will be expected to gain a quick understanding of our business environment and add value to our organisation. You will be actively encouraged to push boundaries and inspire new ideas and visions for the future.

Travel to sites and events will be part of this role therefore a full driving licence is a must.

The recruitment process

• Stage 1: Apply online (All applicants)
• Stage 2: VC Interview (For those that have been shortlisted)
• Stage: 3 Assessment Centre (For those that have been shortlisted)

The assessment centre for this placement opportunity will be 12 th December 2023 and will be at a venue, near or in Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

About us

We live by our company values of Integrity, Customer Focus and Expertise, or 'ICE' for short. The way we recruit, select and develop our people is no exception to this. If you are considering a role with us then we will need to:

• Understand how you put customer focus at the heart of what you do
• Know how you build trust and great relationships, always acting with integrity
• Understand how you have developed your expertise and how you are using it to benefit the customer.

Why work for Frontier?

At Frontier, we believe in rewarding our people for a job well done. As an employee you will have access to the following benefits:

• Opportunity to apply for flexible working
• A contributory pension plan to help you save for your future. The plan offers a choice of contributing levels up to 7% of your salary, which is matched by us
• 25 days’ holiday per calendar year, in addition to the statutory Bank Holidays
• Option to purchase up to an additional five days’ holiday per calendar year
• Life Assurance of three times your basic annual salary
• Dedicated Learning and Development specialists to support your ongoing development
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme which provides 24-hour support and advice in a variety of areas including financial and wellbeing for yourself, your family, and friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity Pay benefit, for eligible employees, of 100% of your basic salary for the first 26 weeks of your maternity leave
• Increased Paternity Leave benefit, for eligible employees, of 4 weeks paternity leave, paid at 100% of your full basic weekly salary
• Increased Occupational Adoption Pay benefits, for eligible employees, of 100% of your basic salary during the first 26 weeks of your adoption leave
• We will match your HMRC Tax-Free Childcare allowance subject to the criteria and eligibility
• Access to our Employee Discounts Programme which provides money saving discounts at selected retailers
• Cycle to Work scheme in association with Halfords
• Vouchers for free eye tests in association with Specsavers
• Complimentary parking on site