Agriculture Talent & Development Specialist

Avara Foods Ltd.; Brackley; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

31 days holiday allowance

6% pension

Private medical for self

Life assurance

Wellbeing resources

Job summary

Avara Foods Ltd. is seeking a Talent and Development Officer to design and deliver talent pathways across the Agriculture Division.

The role focuses on proactive talent attraction, candidate engagement and building sustainable pipelines for farms, mills, hatcheries, and support functions. Based at Brackley or Allensmore, Hereford, the hybrid role involves travel across Agriculture sites and close collaboration with HR, Resourcing and Development teams to align ladders of progression with

Qualifications

• Experience developing talent pipelines, career pathways or early careers initiatives for specialist, operational or hard-to-fill roles.
• Experience developing development and apprentice routes, talent management and internal succession planning.
• Experience building relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners, including colleges, universities, training providers, industry bodies or community organisations.
• Experience in talent attraction, candidate engagement, hiring support or workforce planning, ideally within agriculture, food manufacturing, farming or a related sector.
• Experience creating attraction campaigns, careers content or employer brand materials, and using HR or recruitment systems to maintain records and provide hiring insight.

Responsibilities

• Work with Agriculture leaders to understand workforce requirements and develop attraction and succession plans
• Work with Resourcing and Communications team to create engaging role adverts, campaign content and attraction materials that promote Agriculture careers at Avara
• Liaise with and support resourcing team on hiring activity, offers, onboarding and pre-employment compliance.
• Build relationships with agricultural professionals, industry groups, membership bodies, colleges, universities, schools and training providers.
• Represent Avara at agricultural shows, careers events, industry conferences and networking opportunities alongside HR, Resourcing and other functional colleagues.
• Support graduate, placement, apprenticeship and internship pathways liaising with HR, Resourcing and Development teams
• Partner with Agriculture Managers, Area Managers, Hatchery Managers, Mill Managers, HR and People Development colleagues to align talent pathways, learning activity and progression routes with business priorities.
• Share labour market, candidate pipeline and hiring insight to support workforce planning, succession planning and skills development with HR team.
• Identify opportunities to improve attraction activity, candidate engagement, selection processes and employer branding, ensuring compliance with employment legislation, company policy and equality, diversity and inclusion principles

Skills

Talent development

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

HR systems

Tools

HR software

Microsoft Office

Job description

Avara Foods Ltd. is seeking a Talent and Development Officer to design and deliver talent pathways across the Agriculture Division.

The role focuses on proactive talent attraction, candidate engagement and building sustainable pipelines for farms, mills, hatcheries, and support functions. Based at Brackley or Allensmore, Hereford, the hybrid role involves travel across Agriculture sites and close collaboration with HR, Resourcing and Development teams to align ladders of progression with