Product Specialist

**The Role & Key Responsibilities**:
**Job Title**: Product Specialist - Moist Feeds, 12-Month FTC

**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 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 proactive 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 and acting as the main contact between **KW** and all ruminant accounts within the retail segment. This role is varied and highly commercial, managing contracts, promoting sales, supporting retention, and driving new business, all of which are crucial to achieving our rationing and retail business goals.

**Responsibilities include**:

- Maintain all sites to meet supplier standards, fostering strong relationships and optimizing moist feed sales.
- Develop and manage UK direct-to-farm customer accounts in retail, with a focus on growth and retention.
- Collaborate with the Moist team to exceed budget targets, manage contracts, set profitable pricing, and drive new business.
- Share market insights with customers to seize growth opportunities.
- Ensure integrity in sales and purchase contracts for customer and supplier needs.
- Follow business processes, keep AX and CRM systems updated for effective customer targeting, and comply with trading controls.

**Skills and Experience**
- **Sales and Agriculture Experience**: Proven B2C sales experience, ideally within agriculture, animal feed, or raw materials.
- **Relationship-Building Abilities**: Strong interpersonal skills to cultivate relationships with suppliers, customers, and internal stakeholders.
- **Product Management Background**: Experience in product management or a similar role is beneficial.
- **Commercial Awareness and Analytical Skills**: Familiarity with target-driven environments, with the ability to interpret market data and anticipate trends.
- **Industry Knowledge**: An understanding of the fundamental drivers of the UK agriculture industry.
- **Collaborative and Organized**: A team-oriented approach with excellent organizational skills.

**Location**

Remote - Sherburn in Elmet, North Yorkshire OR Peterborough, Cambs, UK (Primarily a home-based role with quarterly office meetings)

**We're looking for trailblazers, non-conformists, and innovators.**

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonuses to ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial, and wellbeing benefits - these are just some of the ways we reward you, starting from day one.

**About The Company**:
**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**

At KW we lead the development of alternative feeding in the UK, making it the natural choice on high performance livestock farms. Today, the choice of alternative feeds is greater than ever, and we offer the widest possible range of dry, moist, liquid, blended and compounded feeds alongside more traditional straights, minerals, vitamins, protected fats, secure covers and silage additives.

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.