EMEA Senior Swine Technical Manager in Peterborough

Location: Europe (Hybrid/Regional Travel Required)

Contract: Permanent

Package includes: Competitive salary, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, mobility healthcare benefits and retirement savings.

Are you an experienced senior technical leader in swine nutrition and production, with a demonstrated ability to translate science into practical, value-driven solutions for customers? Do you thrive in an international environment with frequent change, supporting commercial growth through deep technical knowledge, stakeholder leadership, and strategic alignment?

AB Vista is seeking a EMEA Senior Swine Technical Manager to provide technical leadership and strategic direction across the European region. This role is fully focused on technical excellence in swine, supporting business growth, product positioning, innovation, and customer success through close collaboration with commercial, R&D, marketing, and service teams. This position plays a critical role in enhancing our technical leadership in Europe, ensuring consistency, credibility, and impact across key markets.

What you will be doing:

• Develop technical strategies for the Swine business and monitor their implementation to ensure global alignment.
• Develop innovative solutions requiring deep technical knowledge and collaborate with the sales team to support product sales across all sectors.
• Provide technical support to EMEA for the Swine business sales team, distributors and key customers.
• Work closely with Business Managers responsible for the territory as well as other members of the wider EMEA technical team to plan and deliver technical support that generates and sustains sales.
• Work with the Service Department to ensure that developed strategies and services are technically sound and supported with accurate information.
• Collaborate with the R&D department to align research and development initiatives with the company’s overall strategy.
• Partner with the EMEA Marketing and Business departments to monitor and communicate the company’s strategy, facilitating the sales of products and services.

What you will bring:

• 11 years experience on commercial animal production and feed additive sales.
• Project management and product development.
• Experience to work on different markets and regions.
• At least 8 years experience managing cross skills team.
• Fluent in English and another language.
• Fluent in a third language.
• Experience at commercial activities through product and service sales.

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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves.

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.

About The Company: We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators. When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, 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 Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses. 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.

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.

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