Account Manager - Poultry

Location: Home-based with regular travel to sites across the Southwest and Humberside-East Anglia region

Contract / Shift:   Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is necessary.

Are you a commercially minded professional with a background in farm operations and a skill for handling high-level client relationships?

Join our team as a Key Account Manager for one of our largest accounts, where you will have a key role managing established partnerships without the pressures of cold-calling or door-to-door sales.

Key Responsibilities:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for our key accounts, managing complex issues, managing stakeholder expectations, and ensuring the smooth running of operations.
• Interpret technical data and understand the impact of raw materials on farm operations, using your knowledge to make informed decisions.
• Manage complaints and resolve challenges quickly, including making decisions during mill breakdowns and managing unexpected situations.
• Prepare weekly reports and contribute to monthly forecasting to support strategic planning.
• Get involved in various commercial projects, with the opportunity to lead initiatives aimed at enhancing our service offerings.
• The role requires regular site visits (one to two times a week) and flexibility for out-of-hours and weekend calls.

About you:

• Ideal candidate will have a background in nutrition or farm operations, potentially transitioning into a commercial role.
• Experience or understanding of account management, particularly in agriculture or related fields, is highly desirable.
• Able to operate with minimal supervision, taking ownership of responsibilities and collaborating confidently with senior managers.
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to build rapport with senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency in using Outlook, Excel, and other corporate tools is essential.
• Full driving licence permitting UK driving.
• A commitment to complete the Feed Adviser Register (FAR) modules if not already qualified.

Why Join Us?

• Engage with long-standing clients in a dynamic environment without the need for prospecting.
• Lead projects within the commercial team, expanding your skills and career in a supportive and well-established business.
• Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
  

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

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

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.