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We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Farm Trader to join our successful team at Sparkford, Somerset and to help lead our Westerly based trading team. At Bartholomews, we offer our customers a complete service from the supply agricultural combinable crop seeds, game-cover and environmental mixes, fertilizers, feeds and other farm inputs for arable farmers across the southern counties. The role will also include managing purchases of grain and providing information about all our farm services including our grain storage capabilities at Shoreham Port, grain marketing, agronomy packages and haulage services through our own haulier, Churchill Freight Services.
You will need to be knowledgeable, keeping up to date with emerging technologies, industry trends and all of our products and services to be able to inform and advise our customers.
We are looking for experienced Farm Traders, you will need sound understanding of on-farm sales, arable farming, grain buying. Ideally you will be qualified through experience gained within a similar role and able to develop a working customer portfolio within your trading area.
About You:
The role of Farm Trader is an excellent opportunity for an individual with varying experience of farm sales and grain purchasing to join our agri-business. You may have hands-on farm management experience or have held a role in a similar business making arable farm sales with a serviced customer base that you have been able to successfully grow.
Highly personable, and adept at forming long-lasting relationships with farmer customers & suppliers.
Knowledge of fertilizers and crop nutrition will be advantageous and experience gained from working within the agricultural industry.
Opportunities will be made available for FACTS and BASIS qualification if desired.
Degree/diploma in agricultural studies, or associated field would be advantageous, but not essential.
You will need to hold and maintain a UK Driving License to be able to carry out this role and as you will be required to make on-farm visits and other trips and visits.
About Bartholomews:
Leading in our field, developing a sustainable Agri Food Chain. We are a main contributor in the UK agri-foods sector, headquartered in Chichester, West Sussex and operating across the southern counties of England. We are a business built on perpetuity, first established in 1883 and we are continuing to grow and prosper.
We provide a range of agricultural services and essential supplies to the farming community including the sale and marketing of grain, the sale and supply of agricultural seeds, the manufacture and supply of fertilizers, crop protection products, animal feeds, bird-food and game feeds. We also provide technical advisory agronomy service to our farmer customers, and we are engaged in ongoing research and development through our extensive cereal crop trials.
Our facilities include a seed plant and crop research, technology, and multiplication center near Chichester and our dock-side sites of Shoreham Silos Services Ltd and Ultimate Fertilizers Ltd in Southampton. We have our own haulage company, Churchill Freight Services Ltd and multiple depots across the South of England. All these facilities and sites make our company proportionately the best resourced Agrifood business in the United Kingdom.
Our mission and as an Integral part of the food chain, is to connect growers with UK and European consumers, adopting new technologies and always striving for sustainable food security.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Not Applicable
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Finance and Sales
* Industries
Farming
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