Area Development Manager

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The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Area Development Manager

Location: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, UK

Contract / Shift: Permanent – Full time – Monday – Friday

Attractive Salary + Sales Based Commission + Car or Car allowance.

🚀 Ready to Take Charge and Make an Impact?

Join NMR as an Area Development Manager! 🚀

Are you a natural people person who loves meeting new individuals and building great relationships?

Do you have a passion for agriculture and a drive to make things happen?
Are you looking for a role where you can take control, grow a region, and make a real difference?

If so, we want to hear from YOU!

At NMR, we’re on the lookout for a motivated, go-getter to join our team as an Area Development Manager. You don’t need previous experience—just the enthusiasm, confidence, and energy to develop new business and expand our presence in the dairy industry.

Why Join NMR?

🌱 Massive Growth Potential – Following our exciting acquisition by AB Agri, there are huge opportunities ahead!
💡 Full Support & Training – We’ll equip you with everything you need to succeed.
🚗 Get Out & About – No two days are the same! Visit farms, attend events, and network with key players in the industry.

What You’ll Be Doing:

✅ Connecting with farmers, learning about their needs, and introducing them to NMR’s cutting-edge services (milk recording, disease testing, genomic testing, and more).
✅ Planning farm visits, attending farmer markets, trade shows, and events like Dairy Tech & Dairy Day.
✅ Working alongside industry leaders like Lely, Genus, and Zoetis to grow your customer base.
✅ Organising farm walks, workshops, and regional marketing campaigns to boost awareness.
✅ Using insights and data to spot opportunities and win new business.

What We’re Looking For:

🔥 A self-starter who’s hungry for success and loves a challenge.
💬 Someone who’s great with people—whether chatting on the phone, in person, or over email.
🚜 A passion for agriculture and dairy farming (but no experience required—we’ll teach you the rest!).
📅 Super organised with the ability to plan your time and juggle multiple leads.
🚗 A full driving license (you’ll be out on the road, meeting customers).

This is not just another sales job—it’s a chance to own your success, work with a fantastic team, and make a real impact in the dairy industry.

Ready to grab this opportunity? Apply now and let’s make things happen! 🚀🐄

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

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

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

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.

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Questions about this role?

If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Salvatore Munago via [email protected].

Supporting your application

We work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.

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