Kite Dairy Consultant

Job Title: Kite Dairy Consultant - Business (Southwest Region)

Location: Home Based with 2-3 days per week travelling

Contract: Permanent / Full Time

Are you skilled at building long-term business relationships, encouraging innovation, and providing a consultative approach to clients? This is an excellent opportunity to work with our Southwest-based farm clients looking to grow or transform their businesses. You will support them with solutions and plans to elevate their operations to the next level.

About the Role: As part of the Kite South West Team will join a growing team of consultants and dairy specialists. Our mission is to enable a responsible and sustainable growing dairy sector in the UK. This role focuses on the financial sustainability of our clients.. You will develop a client portfolio in dairy business consultancy which will be supported by attending regular dairy events and networking opportunities, to offer  our clients optimal market, commercial, and financial advice. Collaboration with financial advisors, accountants, banking, and legal firms is key to enabling change for our customers with a unified approach.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide strategic and analytical advice with a focus on profitability, sustainability, and return on investment.
• Utilise benchmarking data to ensure competitiveness and growth.
• Employ business tools for budgeting and monitoring purposes.
• Understand business and financial structures for succession and development.

What You'll Bring:

• A degree in Animal Science, Agriculture, Business or Finance (Essential)
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills to use and develop business monitoring systems (Essential)
• Highly motivated people who link into the many projects we undertake. (Essential)
• Comprehensive organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to deliver multiple tasks and deadlines (Essential)
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills (Essential)
• Effective communication and relationship building skills (Essential)
• Tact and diplomacy when working closely with personal matters (Essential)
• Enjoys working to in a target orientated environment with a commercial mindset (Essential)
• Previous experience in agriculture, dairy, or financial/business advisory (Desirable)

• Comprehensive understanding of UK dairy farming and market trends. (Desirable)
• Proven history in developing sales and high-value consultancy. (Desirable)
• Knowledge of farming business financial structures, including accounting and budgeting. (Desirable)
• Must possess a driving license.

Additional Information:

GB travel will be required to visit clients and attend internal and external events/meetings. May require staying away from home 2-4 days per month.

If you are seeking a varied, commercial, and strategic opportunity to build a solid network and reputation in this exciting, evolving industry while fast-tracking your career, this role is right for you

The quality of our people makes us unique

Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, we are proud of our knowledge-base and relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence building success through the success of our customers.

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.