Agronomist

7 months ago

Spalding, United Kingdom Bakkavor Full time

**Proud to deliver high quality products and develop high-quality careers**

**Agronomist**

£50,000 - £55,000 per annum

Remote - UK

Monday - Friday, Hybrid working

25 Days Holiday

Excellent rewards package including - life insurance, short term bonus, private medical insurance

**Bakkavor **- We're the biggest name you've never heard of. You've probably eaten our food - you just didn't realise it. We make innovative fresh products, with around 18,500 colleagues working across the UK, US and China. We’re the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers (including Tesco, M&S, Sainsbury's and Waitrose). We’re ambitious, full of ideas and ready for more people who share our values and passion for quality to join us.

**Job Detail**

In this busy and exciting role, you’ll provide proactive communication of crop status with a short, medium and long-term view - ensuring continuity of supply both in terms of quality and availability.

Customer interaction and supporting Customer Produce Managers will also be key aspects of this role.

Establishing yourself as an expert in Fresh and Frozen Produce supply, both internally and externally will be top of your agenda - as will, providing support to centrally based procurement teams and becoming recognised by internal stakeholders and suppliers for adding significant value to businesses.

**About you - Key attributes and experience**
- Self-motivated, detail orientated with excellent analytical skills as well as capability to think broader providing novel solutions to challenge
- Ability to use critical thinking and listening skills to support problem solving
- Effective communication skills including the ability to present complex information clearly
- Strong influencing skills and relationship building capability across all levels
- Awareness of industry and technology development and its impact on short, medium and long term supply
- Full UK driving licence
- Comprehensive MS office including excel
- Sound understanding of food safety
- The ability to challenge effectively whilst maintaining relationships
- Strong analytical and operational execution skills with a high degree of diligence
- Strategic and operational mindset with a focus on collaborative working to share knowledge and expertise to drive supply performance

**What’s in it for you?**

As an equal opportunities’ employer, we are committed to providing a safe and rewarding environment for you to thrive. This is why we work hard to deliver benefits, rewards and wellbeing offerings that are important to you.

Additional benefits for this role include stakeholder pension scheme, personal accident Insurance, free independent mortgage advice, employee assistance programme, a range of voluntary benefits (holiday purchase scheme, additional life assurance, dental & hospital cash plans), discounted tutoring for children, access to financial learning tools and affordable loans via your salary, proud to be and loyal service awards.

Our colleague wellbeing offering encompasses a range of emotional, physical and financial support services delivered by our fantastic team of wellbeing champions.

**Proud to be Bakkavor**

We’re proud to be the market leader in the UK fresh prepared food industry - supplying meals, salads, desserts, pizza and bread to leading grocery retailers including Tesco, M&S, Sainsburys and Waitrose.

We’re driven by the hard work and passion of our people and are delighted to offer a wide range of careers across our business - come and join our dedicated Bakkavor team

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