Food & Farming Assistant

2 weeks ago


Perth, United Kingdom Savills Full time

**Role Overview**

An opening has arisen for a Food & Farming Assistant to support a dynamic, exciting and busy Food & Farming Management & Consultancy team. The team provides core management and consultancy services in the rural, agricultural sectors across Scotland. With a unique and varied workload, the role requires someone proactive and who wishes to make a difference to the team.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Provide day to day administrative support to the team in managing our Food & Farming Management client portfolios.
- Maintain management database with contract farming agreements and compliance data.
- Creating and maintaining electronic files and records in Dynamics CRM
- Arranging diary invites and facilitating meeting arrangements
- General administration, management meeting preparation and following up meeting actions
- Complete, circulate and track documents, licence agreements, sale of standing crop agreements and contract farming agreements.
- Preparation and submission of land maintenance, entitlement transfer, AECS capital claims and agricultural census forms
- Prepare financial budgets and cash flows, monitoring forecast against actual income and expenditure
- Preparation of annual contract farming management reports

**Key Skills**
- Agricultural Management experience (desirable but not essential)
- Subsidy knowledge and experience (desirable but not essential)
- Excellent IT skills using MS Office package especially Excel & Word
- Good communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Working within a team but able to take responsibility and undertake work on own initiative
- Strong attention to detail and able to work to deadlines and prioritise tasks. Financially literate - business and profit focussed

**Team Overview**

The Food & Farming team in Perth is a fast-paced department made up of 2 Directors, 1 Associate, 1 Consultant, 1 Graduate and a part-time admin support within a multi-disciplined office of 60 staff.

The role would suit someone able to work at a fast accurate pace, and is also able to provide an effective support role.

Recruitment agencies

Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.

Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- Business area- Rural & Projects- Locations- Perth- Contract Type- Permanent, Full time, Part time- Remote Status- This role is office based- Salary- Competitive- Contact Becky Brown Talent Resourcer - Rural & Projects


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