Overview
Arla Foods is recruiting an Agricultural Manager to support farms across the Midlands Region. You\'ll work closely with Arla\'s UK cooperative members and direct suppliers to uphold high milk quality standards and ensure effective cooperative governance, with regular visits to our farmer owners. As an Agriculture Manager, you\'ll act as the key support link between the members, direct supplying producers, and Arla Foods UK. Recognised within your own area as the key contact to support the delivery of dairy farming best practice, you will demonstrate Red Tractor Assurance- Dairy Scheme (RTA - DS) along with driving the Arlagården quality assurance standards.
Responsibilities
* Act as the main contact point for Arla members - driving strong democracy, settlement and training and support the communication between Arla Foods Management and the farmer members.
* Executes key operational plans or delivers high-profile/specialist projects that directly impact functional success.
* Challenge processes and practices identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
* Serve as the key contact and provide secretary services (District Council, District Meetings).
* Support Arla\'s sustainability agenda on farm, ensuring we build knowledge, engagement, buy-in, and support action among farmers, farm advisors, and the wider agricultural industry.
* Support the development and execution of Arla\'s added milk concepts and handling milk quality and brand risk issues with farmers.
* Arrange meetings on a farm for external and internal visitors and manage the communication flow with our owners - member meetings - physical and digital.
* To succeed in this role, you\'ll bring strong agricultural experience, with proven technical and commercial expertise gained across diverse and demanding positions.
* Excellence in communication & stakeholder management skills.
* Empathy, self-motivation, and discipline.
* Flexibility in working hours and location.
* Willingness to provide out of hours support on a rota basis.
Qualifications & Skills
* Strong agricultural experience with proven technical and commercial expertise.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
* Empathy, self-motivation, discipline, and flexibility in working hours and location.
* Willingness to provide out of hours support on a rota basis.
Benefits
* Competitive salary (salary discussed at application stage).
* 26 days holiday & Bank Holidays.
* Hybrid & Flexible working.
* Pension contribution matched up to 6%.
* A company car to support with travel to farms and customers.
* 4 x annual salary life assurance.
* BUPA healthcare.
* Bonus scheme.
* Free to use onsite Gym.
* Access to discounted products in our Staff Shop.
* People agenda commitment to training and development.
* Flexible Benefits - buy up to 5 days additional annual leave, reward gateway scheme - discounts with various retailers via my benefit platform.
* Most importantly - Cheese hamper at Christmas!
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