Senior Dairy Consultant- Kite in London

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Location: Shropshire, UK

Package includes a starting salary from £65,000, a generous bonus scheme, a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

Do you have experience providing expert advice to UK dairy farming businesses? Do you enjoy managing consultancy projects from start to finish and seeing real impact? Do you have a strong commercial mindset, with the ability to identify and develop new business opportunities within the dairy sector?

This is an exciting time to join AB Agri / Kite Consulting as we continue our ambitious growth journey within dairy consultancy. What truly sets us apart is the quality of our people — you’ll be working alongside consultants we believe are among the very best in the industry. Kite is widely recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy businesses, delivering practical, innovative advice through close, trusted partnerships with our customers.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing expert consultancy advice across nutritional, technical, and business performance areas, enhancing the value and impact of our service.
• Working closely with farmers to maximise the potential of their businesses, with a clear focus on profit per cow, return on investment, and sustainable growth.
• Identifying and developing new business opportunities while maintaining and growing a high-quality client portfolio built on long‑term relationships.

To be successful, you will bring:

• Proven experience delivering successful consultancy projects from concept through to completion.
• A strong understanding of UK dairy farming systems and current market trends.
• A commercial mindset with the ability to create and develop high‑value consultancy and sales opportunities for Kite.
• A solid understanding of farm financial structures, including budgeting, accounts, and performance analysis.
• Extensive experience in dairy consultancy or a closely related field, ideally with experience operating at a senior or leadership level.

Locations: We are recruiting consultants to work across the Midlands and West Midlands.

About The Company

The 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.