Agricultural Manager
Location: Home Working
Are you looking for your next opportunity in a thriving Agriculture team? Are you passionate about sustainability, farming and food production? Then we might have the role for you....
Arla Foods are recruiting an Agricultural Manager to cover farms across the North of England. This is a home based regional opportunity, and will include frequent visits to our Farmer Owners. Within this role you work with both Arla’s cooperative members here in the UK, and direct suppliers, to achieve consistently high standards of milk quality and supply in order to effectively facilitate the governance processes within the UK Cooperative.
Responsibilities of the role...
As Agriculture Manager you will act as the key support link between the members, direct supplying producers and Arla Foods UK. Recognised within your own area as the key contact to support the delivery of dairy farming best practice, you will demonstrate Red Tractor Assurance - Dairy Scheme (RTA – DS) along with driving the Arlagården quality assurance standards.
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Contact point with Arla members – driving strong democracy, settlement and training and support the communication between Arla Foods Management and the farmer members.
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Executes operational plans or delivers high-profile/specialist projects with a direct impact on functional success.
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Challenge processes and practices identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
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Central point of member contact and provide secretary services (District Council, District Meetings)
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Support our sustainability agenda on farm and ensure that we build knowledge, engagement, buy-in and support action among farmers, farm advisors and the agricultural industry.
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Supporting the development and execution of Arla’s added milk concepts and handling milk quality and brand risk issues with farmers
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Arrange meetings on a farm for external and internal visitor and manage the communication flow with our owners – member meetings – physical and digital
Skillset and experience
To be successful in this role you will have strong experience working in Agriculture. You will be able to demonstrate technical and commercial skills acquired across a wide range of demanding roles within the agricultural industry whilst managing key relationships across multiple stakeholders. An excellent communicator, with strong empathy and able to demonstrate self-motivation and discipline with the ability to work flexibly regarding both location and hours of work.
Within this role you will be required to provide a full out of hours service on a rota basis.
For a confidential chat around the role – please reach out to Patrick Kilbride. Those closing date for this role is the 26th of August, only CVs sent in via the link can be considered.
Please note we are not partnered with any recruitment agencies for this role. We kindly ask that recruitment agencies do not submit speculative CVs on behalf of candidates, as these CVs will not be considered under the agency ownership and will be accepted as a gift. We encourage interested individuals to apply directly through our official channels.
We have a purpose for Good
At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?