Senior Dairy Consultant - Business (South West Region)

The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title:Senior Dairy Consultant - Business (South West Region)
Location: Home Based with 2 - 3 days per week travelling
Do you enjoy building long term business relationships, driving change and providing a consultative approach to your customers? This is a great opportunity to work with a our South West based farm clients that are looking to rapidly grow or transform their business, supporting them with solutions and plans to take their business to the next level.
Reporting to the Southern Regional Manager, you will work with a growing team of consultants and other dairy specialists across the Kite and KW teams whilst also attending regular dairy events and networking opportunities. Ensuring we can offer our customers optimal market, commercial and financial advice. You will be working with other financial advisors, accountants, banking and legal firms to really enable change for our customers with a joined up approach.
We are looking for strategic and analytical individuals that thrive by advising and influencing with a focus on profit per cow, sustainability and return on investment, with the ability to draw on benchmarking data to ensure our customers are competitive and can enable growth. Familiarity with business tools for budget and monitoring purposes are essential as well as a good understanding of business and financial structures for dealing with succession and business development.
What you'll bring:
Previous industry experience within agriculture, dairy or financial/business advisory.
A qualification in Animal Science, Agriculture, Business or Finance is preferred.
An excellent understanding of UK Dairy farming and market trends.
Proven experience of developing sales and providing high value consultancy.
A good understanding of the financial structure of a farming business and management to include accounting and budgeting experience.
Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills to utilise and develop business monitoring systems
Strong relationship building and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and engage your customers, colleagues and peers.
Can work with tact and diplomacy when required, with a professional and empathic approach.
Enjoys working in a target orientated environment with a commercial mindset.
Must have a driving license.
If you are looking for a varied, commercial and strategic opportunity where you can build a really strong network and reputation in this exciting, evolving industry whilst fast tracking your career... this is the role for you!About The CompanyThe quality of our people makes us unique
Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, we are proud of our knowledge-base and relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence building success through the success of our customers.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
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.
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