Pig Feed Account Manager

1 month ago

United Kingdom AB Agri Full time

Pig Feed Account Manager - Home based

Job Title: Pig Feed Account Manager

Location: UK (Home based with national travel)

Contract / Shift: Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is necessary.

ARE YOU READY TO BUILDGROWTH IN THE UK PIG INDUSTRY?

What’s a typical week look like in this role?

A typical week for the role involves a flexible mix of working from home and traveling to see customers, with key responsibilities including understanding customer requirements, handling the order process, setting pricing, conducting forecasting, resolving queries, and developing account plans to anticipate future customer needs.

About the role:

The key elements of this role are to maintain relationships with existing customers and to grow and develop business within the UK pig industry. You will add value to both ABN and our pig customers ensuring that they receive the cost effective, efficient feeding solutions.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage Stakeholders: Collaborate with business owners, area managers, and farm managers to ensure all processes from feed order through to delivery and on-farm performance, meet agreed KPIs and standards.
  • Be the Central Interface: Act as the bridge between operations, raw materials, nutrition, and customer support teams, using negotiation and problem-solving skills to deliver workable solutions.
  • Customer Engagement: Hold and attend customer meetings to ensure clarity on requirements, from product specifications to performance targets and service levels.
  • Drive Business Growth: Take responsibility for pricing, account profitability, and accurate forecasting, ensuring you understand deviations and trends.
  • Strategic Planning: Create clear, actionable account plans and maintain ongoing stakeholder engagement plans that deliver measurable goals.
  • Lead Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement process improvements that add value, streamline operations, and create performance improvement plans.
  • Handle Projects: Manage commercial projects from inception to completion, demonstrating measurable value while proactively resolving customer complaints in line with internal procedures.
  • Build Positive Relationships: Collaborate effectively with 3rd-party nutritionists and manage customer interfaces to ensure high-quality service.
  • Deliver Growth: Oversee the volume and profitability of accounts, including opportunities to generate new business with existing or new customers.

About you:

  • Proven account management experience, primarily in the pig or broader agricultural industry.
  • Solid knowledge of monogastric production and supply chains.
  • Effective communication and negotiation skills, with a talent for building trust and influencing at all levels.
  • Experience with business planning, problem-solving, and delivering results in a time sensitive situation.
  • A Full UK Driving Licence and a willingness to travel nationally with overnight stays.

Added Advantage For:

  • Experience with pricing strategies, forecasting, and developing commercial partnerships.
  • Completion of Feed Adviser Register (FAR) modules (or willingness to complete within 12 months).
  • Familiarity with agricultural trends, including welfare, economic, and legislative impacts.

Why Join ABN?

  • Be Part of a Market Leader: Work with some of the largest accounts in the pig industry.
  • Flexibility & Support: Enjoy a mix of home-working and field-based responsibilities.
  • Career Growth: Progress your career within a supportive, forward-thinking organization.
  • Impactful Work: Have an impactful part to play in supporting the UK’s pig farming sector through innovation and expertise.

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.

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