Head of Food and Farming

3 days ago


Dumfries, Dumfries and Galloway, United Kingdom Savills Full time

Role Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Head of Food & Farming Scotland. You'll be responsible for providing business, strategic, technical advice and farm management consultancy to a wide range of farm businesses across the whole of Scotland. You will develop, monitor and report on progress against the Food & Farming strategy for Scotland.

Click here to download the full job specification. Please ensure you read this before applying.
What we offer you:

  • Career and Professional Development
  • 25-30 Days Annual Leave, depending on grade
  • Life Assurance
  • Private Medical Scheme
  • Virtual GP
  • Global Mobility Scheme
  • Rewards Platform
  • Company Pension Scheme
  • Enhanced Incremental Annual Leave

Find out more about Savills offer

Team Overview
Savills Food & Farming team provides advice on all aspects of farming and food production, rural land use and farm management. Our client base includes farmers, rural estates, public bodies and rural property investors. The team of 9 spread across Scotland, work closely with the other departments in Savills to be able to provide clients with a multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to farming and land management.

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.

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