Commercial Nutritionist - Pig - Home based

Commercial Nutritionist – Pig – Home based

Job Title: Commercial Nutritionist – Pig

Location: Home based -UK

Contract and Shift details: Permanent – Monday – Friday, 37.5 hrs per week

Are you a pig nutritionist looking for an opportunity to join a market-leading business where we prioritize the welfare and nutrition of animals? If so, join our team today.

You will join a team of Swine Nutrition experts, supporting the UK and Ireland customer base. We focus on feed safety and independent animal nutrition, so you will use your expert knowledge to advise on bespoke premix products that meet and optimize customers’ needs. You will work closely with our customers, utilizing data and science behind pig nutrition to develop practical solutions that help their businesses grow.

You will generate and support new and existing customers by providing advice on premix, supplements, feed formulation, and general nutrition support that meet the needs of the business, farmers, or market, while ensuring that product specifications are safe, legal, and meet our business objectives.

Alongside your nutritional expertise, you will play a key role in our growth and ongoing development by applying your commercial and strategic skills to support in the following areas:

• Develop and implement business growth strategy in the UK and Ireland, with consideration of wider European markets
• Contribute to literature, marketing, and PR activities, including preparing articles and technical papers

• Participate in R&D activities

• Collaborate with operational and quality teams in production to identify opportunities for improvements in quality, safety, or cost

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with pig nutrition experience to put their knowledge into practice while contributing to the continued growth of a market-leading brand.

To be successful, we are looking for some of the following knowledge, skills, and experience:

• Relevant experience in a similar role or degree-level qualification (or equivalent) in a related field, e.g., animal science/animal nutrition
• Strong knowledge of swine nutrition and production, as well as a solid understanding of pig performance data
• Experience in a commercial role, ideally with business development expertise
• Good understanding of the pig supply chain and customer focus
• Knowledge of feed legislation requirements and potential product impacts

Location

This role offers flexibility in terms of location and will be home-based with travel.

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

Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.

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.