Head of Food and Farming Operations

4 weeks ago


Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom Savills Full time

Role Overview

As a key member of the Savills team, you will lead a team of consultants in delivering strategic and technical farm consultancy and management advice to a wide range of farm businesses across East Anglia.

You will be responsible for leading the Cambridge and Norwich Food & Farming departments, communicating, and working closely with the respective Heads of Office and the Head of Region.

Key areas of focus include:

  • Identifying new business opportunities and service lines.
  • Driving cross-selling and communication within the office and across the wider business.
  • Growing the profile of the Cambridge and Norwich Food & Farming teams, including developing marketing, charitable events, and PR opportunities.
  • Fostering local client relationships.
  • Striving to exceed divisional fee-earning targets.
  • Providing guidance and leadership to members of the department.
  • Acting with diplomacy and ensuring open and productive communication channels within the department.
  • Identifying skill gaps and recruitment opportunities in local markets.
  • Responsible for the department's financial performance.
  • Implementing companywide strategies and policies within the department.
  • Ensuring compliance with items such as Compliance, Health & Safety, ISO, and Business Continuity.

Team Overview

The Savills Food & Farming team in East Anglia assists clients with day-to-day management of their farming businesses as well as one-off consultancy projects.

The team is comprised of eight consultants split across the two offices.

The wider Rural division operates across the UK, with a network of 37 offices and a number of estate offices from Inverness in the North to Truro in the South-West.

Career Progression

Career progression can mean different things to different people at various stages of their careers.

At Savills, we know that everyone thrives and develops in their own way.

We have various tools and training to help you achieve your career goals.

We believe in building lasting relationships by putting people at the heart of what we do.

Our Values

We pride ourselves on our core values of listening, empowering, challenging, and collaborating.

We believe in being bold, embracing change, and challenging industry conventions to deliver extraordinary outcomes.

The behaviours below are tangible examples of how our core values link to the strategic pillars of growth, clients, people, disruption, and finance.

  • You'll champion and actively drive progress and growth in teams and individuals to improve performance.
  • You'll champion client delivery.
  • You'll champion relationship building at all levels across the business and be an ambassador for Savills values.
  • You'll create long-term plans and strategies to drive the business forward.
  • You'll create strategies to increase cross-selling activities and profitability and maximise market opportunities.

Benefits

Along with a market-leading salary, we have an array of brilliant benefits to offer you, including:

  • Highly competitive bonus.
  • Car allowance of up to £8,000 per annum (paid monthly).
  • Generous annual leave (up to 30 days + BH) + option to purchase 5 extra days.
  • Enhanced pension (8% company contribution).
  • Electric car scheme.
  • Private healthcare.
  • Life assurance.
  • Sharesave/Share incentive plan.
  • Recommend a friend scheme.
  • Long service awards/annual leave.
  • Market-leading paid Paternity & Maternity leave.
  • Loans.
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • World-class training opportunities.
  • Discount on 1000's of retailers.


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