Area Coordinator - Bucks, Oxon and Northants

AB Agri; England; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural organization seeks an Area Coordinator to manage milk recording services across the Oxfordshire, Northamptonshire, and Buckinghamshire regions. Responsibilities include data collection, coordinating milk sample collection, and ensuring data quality. The ideal candidate should have strong time management skills, be self-motivated, and possess a valid UK driving license. This role offers competitive salary and benefits, along with the chance to make meaningful contributions to dairy farming.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonus

Ongoing career development

Enhanced family, financial, and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Ability to work early mornings when required.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a full milk recording service in defined area.
• Collect event data about individual cows and update the NMR database.
• Support and provide robot shuttle hire service.

Skills

Time management skills

Self-motivated

Attention to detail

Fully PC literate

Practical dairy farming experience

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Area Coordinator

Location: Oxfordshire / Northamptonshire / Buckinghamshire

Contract: Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishes

Salary: Competitive + Van + Fuel Card

Are you interested in dairy farming and data accuracy?

Are you skilled at managing your time and working alone?

Do you have a positive attitude and attention to detail?

If the answer to the above is YES – then this could be the role for you!

The Area Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of a full milk recording service in a defined area as allocated by their Area Service Manager. This involves monthly visits to farms within the Oxfordshire / Northamptonshire or Buckinghamshire area, collecting event data about individual cows and updating the NMR database.

It can also involve taking milk samples from each cow as they are milked as and when required. The role may also involve supporting and providing the robot shuttle hire service in terms of organising, transporting, setting up, taking down, cleaning, and storage of robot shuttles, holiday cover, and box deliveries / collections.

Key Responsibilities

• Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
• Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
• Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
• Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
• Transport sample boxes / shuttles
• Complete NMR robot shuttle recording if required.
• Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.

About you

• Time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
• Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
• Fully PC literate
• Milk recording and / or practical dairy farming experience - desirable

Additional Information

• A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Able to work early mornings when required

Skills & Experience

Not Specified

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you - from day one.

About us

We’re National Mil Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re 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. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or anything else) just let us know.