Agribusiness Management Senior Consultant

RSK Group plc; Wideopen; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is looking for a versatile Agribusiness Management Senior Consultant to join their dynamic team. This permanent, flexible role offers the opportunity to work from home while delivering comprehensive consultancy services to farmers and industry stakeholders. You will provide expert advice on business management, environmental consultancy, and financial planning, while also mentoring junior consultants. The position emphasizes the importance of optimizing enterprise performance and profitability through innovative solutions and a strong network within the agri-food supply chain. If you are passionate about agriculture and consultancy, this role is a perfect fit for you.

Benefits

Contributory Pension Scheme

Life Assurance

Continuing Professional Development

Flexible Benefits Programme

Private Health Care

Qualifications

• Experience in senior agribusiness consultancy with a focus on environmental management.
• Strong sales skills and ability to produce high-quality technical reports.

Responsibilities

• Provide independent consultancy to improve farm business performance.
• Mentor junior consultants and deliver farm consultancy projects.

Skills

Agricultural Consultancy

Business Management

Environmental Consultancy

Sales Skills

Financial Analysis

Education

HND or Degree in Land-based Subject

Tools

Cloud-based Software

Job description

Agribusiness Management Senior Consultant

Salary up to £50,000

Location UK Wide

The Vacancy

ADAS, part of the RSK Group, is seeking a Agribusiness Management Senior Consultant to join our team. The role is permanent, flexible, and home based and will be associated with one of our regional offices.

As a Senior Consultant, you will play a key role within the team delivering a broad range of business-focussed, technical, and environmental farm management advice to farmers and growers, advice programmes on behalf of government agencies, projects for supply chain, industry organisations, and research institutes.

The successful applicant will need to be versatile and be willing to be involved in a range of consultancy services to farmers and other industry stakeholders.

Key responsibilities

• Enable clients to achieve their overall business objectives, providing independent direction and actions to improve performance on a continual basis. Particular emphasis on optimising enterprise performance and improving profitability through specialist knowledge of business management, environmental and technical consultancy.
• Provide specialist advice across a range of farm business management consultancy services such as strategic planning, farm business reviews, enterprise benchmarking, succession facilitation, creation of diversified enterprises, analysis of financial accounts and financial planning using cloud-based software.
• Analyse problems and provide independent, cost-effective solutions to clients that includes technically correct and legally compliant advice.
• Mentor and develop junior agribusiness consultants, including on-farm joint visits.
• Work closely with the Technical Director for Business Management to contribute to the successful growth and development of the ADAS ALM business.
• Be responsible for the successful delivery of farm consultancy and wider project work, which drives profitability for the ADAS ALM business through sales of agribusiness consultancy and assisting with the sales process of more junior members of staff.
• Continue to build and exploit a wide network of professionals to develop leads for the Business Management and wider ALM teams.

Qualifications and experience

• Agricultural or business-related qualification to HND or Degree level in a land-based subject area.
• Previous experience in a senior agribusiness consultant role.
• Experience of delivering Environmental Land Management Schemes and advice around resource protection and the broader agri-environment including carbon reduction strategies, nutrient, soil and water management, farm assurance, and waste management would be beneficial.
• Proven experience and a tenacity for sales.
• Be an ambassador for ADAS in the wider agri-food supply chain.
• Production of technical reports to an excellent level and experience of quality control.
• Full UK driving licence and the ability to travel away from home base when required.

Salary and benefits

• Contributory Pension Scheme and Life Assurance.
• We encourage Continuing Professional Development.
• Flexible benefits programme with the option to buy additional holidays and private health care.

RSK Group is an Equal Opportunities Employer.