Overview
The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Commercial Ruminant Nutritionist
Location: Home based with travel to customers and Head Office, Rugeley, Staffordshire
Contract and shift pattern: Permanent - 37.5 hours per week
Package includes: Competitive Salary, including discretionary performance related bonus, Car Allowance, plus pension contributions matched up to 10%, access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing, and everyday life.
At Premier Nutrition, you’ll have the chance to make a real impact—helping our customers deliver excellence in ruminant nutrition while being part of a market-leading, trusted brand in the feed industry. As a Commercial Nutritionist – Ruminant, you’ll not only manage and grow valued customer accounts across the UK and Ireland, but also become a true partner to their businesses, offering technical expertise, innovative feed solutions, and commercially smart advice. This is a role where your knowledge will be valued, your ideas will shape outcomes, and your relationships will drive success.
Responsibilities
* Contribute as a core member of the Ruminant team at Premier Nutrition, with responsibility for acquiring new customers and supporting existing accounts across premix, supplements, feed formulation, and the provision of expert nutritional and technical advice.
* Engage with customers to gain a detailed understanding of their performance targets, strategic objectives, and market-specific requirements, ensuring that tailored solutions are delivered effectively.
* Safeguard product specifications, ensuring they remain compliant with safety and legal standards, while also meeting the commercial, marketing, and margin objectives of the business.
* Play an active role in the preparation of product literature, marketing campaigns, PR initiatives, and the authorship of technical articles and thought-leadership pieces.
* Represent the company externally by preparing and presenting technical papers at conferences, seminars, and discussion groups, strengthening Premier Nutrition’s profile within the industry.
What you’ll bring
* Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Animal Science, Veterinary Science, or equivalent.
* Strong knowledge of ruminant nutrition, production systems, and performance data.
* Proven ability to apply animal ruminant nutrition in a commercial setting, with experience developing robust R&D plans, protocols, and diets.
Growth and culture
Where growth meets purpose. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers, and that’s because of great people who share common values. We’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This highlights the progress we’ve made to build an inclusive, supportive, and fair workplace. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate.
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone. If you need additional support (such as alternative formats for your application, a support dog, a sign language interpreter, or anything else) just let us know.
About The Company
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 to ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits, we reward you from day one.
About us
Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offer expert advice to customers from some of the world's leading nutritionists.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we are 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.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and we’d love to hear from you. We get many applications for our roles and sometimes close the process early, so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 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 associated fees.
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