Assessor Coordinator - Maternity cover

AB Agri Ltd; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent agricultural company is seeking an Assessor Coordinator for a 15-month fixed-term contract. This home-based role involves managing assessor contracts, delivering training, and ensuring high-quality assessment processes. Candidates should have experience with livestock and excellent communication skills. The position offers a salary starting at £28,000 and benefits that support employee wellbeing, including a pension contribution. Occasional travel across the UK will be required.

Benefits

Matched pension contribution of up to 10%

Wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Self-motivated with high standards of delivery.
• Keen attention to detail.
• Knowledge of or interest in carbon measuring programmes.

Responsibilities

• Manage assessor contracts and payment schedules.
• Prepare and deliver assessor training.
• Conduct on-farm assessments as needed.

Skills

Experience/knowledge of livestock

Effective communication

Quality Control

Problem solving

Time management

Customer service

Intermediate proficiency in Excel and Word

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Assessor Coordinator - Maternity Cover - 15 Month Fixed Term Contract

Location: UK - Homebased (Occasional travel to our sites around the UK is required).

Package includes: Salary from £28,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

AB Sustain is a specialist supply chain and Ag Technology management company, enabling retailers, brand owners and manufacturers to navigate through complex issues in their supply chain and deliver positive impacts to their stakeholders.

This role will contribute to our core strength in gathering and analysing agricultural data, through forming expert partnerships to drive best practice and by using technologies to minimise the burden on suppliers.

The Assessor Coordinator plays a critical role in ensuring the quality, consistency, and integrity of assessment processes. Through effective scheduling, support, and communication, the Assessor Coordinator ensures assessors are well-prepared, aligned with standards, and equipped to deliver fair, timely, and high-quality assessments. This role strengthens organisational performance by reducing assessment errors, improving completion rates, and supporting continuous quality improvement across all training and assessment activities.

The Assessor Coordinator also acts as the primary liaison between assessors, account managers, and leadership. By identifying gaps, monitoring performance, and implementing improvement strategies, the Assessor Coordinator enhances operational efficiency, contributes to accreditation readiness, and upholds the organisation’s reputation for excellence in assessment.

What you'll be doing

• Management of assessor contracts and payment schedules
• Action assessor queries/issues when needed
• Prepare and carry out assessor training
• Complete shadow assessments with all assessors
• Ensure assessor resources are allocated effectively for the timely completion of assessments.
• Recruiting assessors as needed to ensure resource requirements are met
• Prepare/send out assessment progress data to customers
• Data Quality Checking and Report creation.
• Work with the Commercial Manager, Account Managers, Service Delivery Team and Data Analysis Team
• Conduct on farm assessments as required.

What you'll bring

• Experience/knowledge of livestock, ruminant and/or Dairy
• Ability/experience to communicate effectively with retail and processor customers, farmers and internal teams
• Quality Control, problem solving and time management
• Knowledge of (or interest in) Carbon measuring programmes
• Self motivated, an eye for detail and high standards of delivery in all aspects of work
• Excellent customer service skills
• Familiar with Office Applications (Excel and Word) at an intermediate proficiency

Where growth meets purpose

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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team 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.

We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves.

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.

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, 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

Since 1999, AB Sustain has spearheaded an innovative approach to sustainability for suppliers and processors, offering its customers an understanding of their agricultural supply-chains by utilising effective tools to measure and monitor continuous improvement.

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.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. 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 fees associated with them.