Agri-Supply Chain Engagement Manager

This role is responsible for building meaningful, commercially relevant relationships across the agri-food sector to accelerate the commercialisation of emerging agri-tech.

The role ensures that agri-tech businesses and their technologies are aligned with industry need, commercially viable, and supported by the necessary advisory capability, skills development, and stakeholder awareness.

The postholder will act as a bridge between innovation pipelines, industry customers, advisors, and professional bodies—ensuring innovations translate into measurable on-farm ROI and scalable market uptake. This role is field-based, which means you’ll be travelling to client sites, partner sites and our locations as part of your day-to-day work. You may also work from your home address for a minority of the week or attend one of our sites from time to time. Our main locations are: Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cranfield, Newport (Midlands).

Key responsibilities

• Deliver an engagement strategy to raise awareness of emerging and newly launched agri-tech solutions to relevant industry stakeholders.
• Work with relevant teams to ensure technologies are demonstrated in relevant operational environments (commercial farms, advisory networks, supply chains).
• Gather and communicate robust evidence of return on investment (ROI), productivity gains, environmental impact, and commercial viability.
• Position the organisation as a trusted, independent broker of credible innovation.
• Collaborate with industry bodies, professional associations, and training providers to identify emerging skills gaps linked to new technologies.
• Ensure required competencies are captured and embedded into relevant CPD schemes and advisory frameworks.
• Develop clear communications and engagement plans that articulate the current and future agri-tech pipeline.
• Engage key stakeholders (farmers, advisors, supply chain actors, processors, retailers, policymakers) to build awareness of technologies in development.
• Represent the organisation at relevant industry activities/events.
• Translate technical outputs into commercially relevant narratives for different stakeholder audiences.
• Identify and cultivate strategic partnerships with industry customers, supply chain partners, and corporate stakeholders.
• Support innovators within programmes to access industry/customer feedback.
• Contribute to go-to-market strategies and partnership agreements that maximise adoption success.
• Contribute to reporting, impact measurement, and continuous improvement across programmes.
• Work cross-functionally with relevant teams to ensure cohesive delivery.

What we are looking for

Essential Experience

• Strong network across the UK agri-food sector.
• Experience in agri-tech, agricultural innovation, or related rural industries.
• Demonstrable experience building partnerships across industry and professional bodies.
• Experience translating technical innovation into commercially relevant messaging.
• Understanding of farm business drivers (productivity, profitability, sustainability).
• Familiarity with CPD frameworks and professional accreditation schemes.
• Experience supporting technology commercialisation or go-to-market strategies.
• Commercial acumen.
• Influencing and stakeholder management.
• Systems thinking (innovation → skills → adoption → impact).
• Clear communicator across multiple audiences.
• UK driving licence is mandatory to have.

Why join us?

You will be part of a pioneering organisation driving innovation in agri-tech, whilst working in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. There is opportunity to grow and develop within a newly established organisation, plus a range of benefits including:

• 33 days of annual leave with flexible public holidays allocation.
• Flexible working hours.
• 4x salary life assurance.
• EAP with 24/7 helpline and expert advice service (legal, finance, health).
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme availability.
• Fees for professional memberships.
• Ongoing training and development.

If you are ready for a role that truly makes an impact - join us and be part of something meaningful. We’d love to hear from you!