Product Specialist

**Location: Remote - **Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire OR Peterborough, Cambs, UK**

**(Predominantly a home based role, with on average quarterly meetings in the office)**

Do you have an interest in animal feed products with experience of managing the supply and demand of raw materials? Do you enjoy building long term relationships with suppliers and on farm customers? If so this could be the ideal role for you

At AB Agri, we take pride in being at the forefront of innovation in the agricultural sector. As a specialist provider of high-quality ruminant feed and nutritional solutions, we are seeking a motivated and pro-active product specialist to join our friendly and knowledgeable team.

This is a key role within the moist feed team, focused on the day-to-day product management of brewer’s grains whilst being the main contact between KW and all ruminant accounts within the retail segments. It will be a varied, highly commercial role within the progressive moist category, managing contracts and positions effectively, promoting sales, retention and new business, all key to the success of our rationing and retail business plan.

We are looking for a pro-active approach to ensure full stock utilisation for all 3 breweries we work with, understanding market trends, whilst building positive customer and supplier relationships to enable the business to be as commercial and efficient as possible.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Maintain all sites to suppliers’ satisfaction, while building appropriate relationships. Ensuring constant review of moist feed production to ensure stock is sold on in the most commercially effective ways.
- Maintain and develop relationships with direct to farm customers within retail segments across the UK, with ownership of aligned accounts.
- You will work as part of the Moist team to achieve / exceed Budget, maintaining contracts and positions effectively, maximizing profitability through pricing while promoting sales, retention, and new business within this sector.
- Be a key driver in sharing market insight across your aligned Customers to take advantage of market opportunities.
- Maintain the product sales and purchase contracts with integrity to meet the needs of customers and suppliers.
- Adhere to business sales processes and maintain AX and database systems to facilitate the targeting and segmenting of customers and prospects to maximize contribution.
- Adhere to the required trading controls.

**What you'll bring**:

- Previous B2C Sales experience, ideally within a agricultural, animal feed or raw material background.
- Previous experience of building relationships with 3rd party suppliers, customers and internal stakeholders at all levels.
- Previous Product management experience would be beneficial.
- Practical commercial experience used to working in a target based environment.
- An understanding of the fundamental drivers of the UK agriculture industry.
- Comprehensive analytical and organisational skills with good commercial awareness and the ability to interpret market data and emerging trends.
- Working with a collaborative and consistent approach.

This is a great time to join our dairy division as we continue to grow our product offering in this industry with a genuine opportunity to grow your career with us. Come and be a part of our expert, successful and friendly team

**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**

We’re AB Agri, part 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.

**Application Notes**

**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.