We have a new opening for an experienced and commercially driven Feed Manager to join us on a permanent basis to lead and develop our Feed Department across our range of livestock and game feed products.
You will lead, motivate and support the Feed Sales Team, drive sales campaigns, and use CRM insights to identify and convert new business opportunities. A key focus will be developing our own-label feed ranges and strengthen customer relationships, ensuring a competitive, high-quality, and sustainable feed offering.
This role will be based at our main site at Chichester Food Park, Chichester and sits at the heart of our business playing a key part in driving future growth, innovation, and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities:
* Grow and develop our feed product portfolio, with a strong focus on developing and promoting our ownlabel ranges.
* Lead, inspire, and coach the Feed Sales Team to identify, convert, and maximise every sales opportunity
* Plan and execute targeted seasonal and strategic sales campaigns using Dynamics 365 CRM and sales insights
* Build strong, longterm relationships with customers, suppliers, manufacturers, and partners to generate repeat business and new opportunities
* Set competitive feed pricing and negotiate supplier terms to strengthen margin and market position
* Ensure product availability through effective stock management and logistics coordination across all sites
* Deliver accurate sales reporting, forecasting, and order management while maintaining full UFAS, VMD, and policy compliance
About You
As an experienced and commercially driven Feed Manager we are looking for proven experience in a feed-related agricultural role with strong technical knowledge of livestock and game feed nutrition. You will need to demonstrate you are commercially minded ideally with on-farm sales experience. A Confident leader with strong relationship-building skills who is comfortable using CRM systems and sales data
Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel.
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 fertilisers, 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. We have our own haulage company, Churchill Freight Services Ltd, and a depot at Sparkford, Somerset. 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.
Get in Touch
If you feel that this role might be right for you and you would like to have an informal and confidential chat with us, we would love to hear from you, please contact our HR team on Tel 01243 755767.