Farming & NFU Manager Stratford upon Avon

NFU Mutual; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & professional qualifications

Job summary

NFU Mutual in Stratford-upon-Avon is seeking a Farming & NFU Manager to lead our farming GI accounts, grow memberships, and steer the NFU team across Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

The role is full-time (35 hours weekly) with some evenings and weekends and requires travel. Salary is circa £50,000+ depending on experience.

You will build strong client relationships, ensure compliant service, and contribute to branch activity.

Qualifications

• Proven experience of managing and developing a team.
• Strong existing relationships with NFU stakeholders.
• CII Certificate in Insurance or commitment to achieve it quickly.

Responsibilities

• Manage and grow key farming GI accounts and renewals.
• Lead and develop the NFU team with regular 1:1s and reviews.
• Coordinate activities across NFU branches, including evenings and weekends.

Skills

Team management

Stakeholder relationships

Compliance mindset

Willingness to travel

Education

CII Certificate in Insurance

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

# Farming & NFU ManagerRegion: MidlandsLocation: Stratford upon AvonJob reference: ANEE02113Closing date: 4th November 2026## The role**Farming & NFU Manager** **Package at a glance** **• Salary: Circa £50,000+ (dependent on experience)** **• Hours: Full time position 35 hours per week incorporating evening and weekend NFU events** **• Contract: Permanent** **• Location: Stratford (CV37 7NB) with travel across Warwickshire and Worcestershire** **Introduction to NFU Mutual** NFU Mutual offers a wide range of products and services, including general insurance, life, pensions and investments and has been providing quality insurance for its customers, for over 110 years. We carefully balance delivering excellent service to our customers whilst ensuring the business is run effectively. As a mutual, supporting our customers and paying their claims comes first. We are a top ten UK insurance company and the UK’s largest rural insurer, with an agency network of over 250 local offices. **About the Agency** As a local agency of NFU Mutual we deliver a first-class service, and sell their product range across our region, to customers old and new, who are at the core of everything we do. We are a business where honesty, integrity, and trust are at the heart of our values. We champion the personal approach to customer service that NFU Mutual are famous for. An exciting opportunity has now arisen within the Central-South Warwickshire & Pershore Agency. **Our five Non-Negotiables are how we work, and how we choose people:** Passion, Strive for Better, Ownership, Honesty and Celebrate Success. Every role here is built on them, and this one is no exception.## About the roleYou will keep and grow our key farming General insurance (GI) accounts and, lead our NFU team to manage and grow our NFU memberships, and take a senior role across our NFU branches. It is a senior role with real influence over how we serve farming members. This is how our Non-Negotiables show up in the day to day. **Passion** • Manage a portfolio of key farming GI accounts, completing advised renewals, reviews and new business quotations on farm and in the office. • Know your clients’ businesses and families well enough to spot needs and risks before they do. • Support the Farming Partner, NFU Partner and NFU member engagement team with our Farming and NFU marketing, so clients understand the full range of services we offer. **Strive for Better** • Work with the Farming Agents to grow the Farming book, championing cross-sell in D&O, RMS and F/S. • Support the NFU Partner on projects in the farming business, and identify and lead continuous improvement on the NFU side. **Ownership** • Lead and develop the NFU team, including 1:1s and quarterly and annual reviews, with objectives linked to agency targets. • Own the retention of your key accounts and the quality of your team’s service. • Work with account handlers, the accounts administrator and the claims manager to keep accounts running smoothly. • Take senior responsibility alongside the Group Secretaries for our 5 NFU branches across Warwickshire and Worcestershire, with a focus on Evesham, giving a minimum of 10 hours a week to supporting NFU members. This includes branch and county meetings and events, generally in the evenings and at weekends. **Honesty** • Give the best advice whatever the commercial outcome, and sell professionally and compliantly to the standards of NFU Mutual, the T&C scheme and our regulators. • Follow the NFU Mutual General Insurance Compliance Manual, the Agent’s Claims Guide and the Agency Guide, and handle customer money and credit control to NFU Mutual’s requirements. • Give your team straight, fair feedback and be open about your own mistakes. Celebrate Success • Recognise individual and team wins promptly and by name. • Support the training and development of the NFU and Farming Exec team and celebrate their progress. • Thank the branch officers, volunteers and NFU colleagues who help us serve members, and build strong relationships with County Advisers, Regional Directors and branch committees.## About youWe select on the Non-Negotiables first, then on experience. Expect to give real examples from your career, and to take part in practical exercises as well as an interview. **Essential** • Proven experience of managing and developing a team. • Strong existing and current relationships with NFU stakeholders. • CII Certificate in Insurance (or equivalent), or the commitment to achieve it quickly. • A strong compliance mindset, and confidence handling customer money and credit control. • Confident use of Word, Excel and PowerPoint • A full driving licence, willingness to travel, and willingness to attend NFU events in the evenings and at weekends. **Desirable** • Experience of the NFU Mutual agency network, the T&C scheme or NFU branch activity. • A track record of growing a book of business through cross-sell. • Existing relationships in the Warwickshire and Worcestershire farming community. **What we are looking for in you** • Passion: real interest in farming and rural communities, and pride in getting the detail right. • Strive for Better: you see a quicker or better way and act without being asked, adapt when things change, and use feedback to improve. • Ownership: you take responsibility for results, including your team’s, and solve problems rather than passing them on. • Honesty: you do the right thing even when no one would notice if you didn’t, are straight with customers and colleagues, catch your own mistakes early and treat feedback as something to use rather than survive. • Celebrate Success: you credit others, share the credit and notice good work without being prompted. **Our commitment to you** You will have training and support to succeed in the role, support towards professional qualifications such as CII, regular 1:1s and reviews, and a team that recognises and celebrates success. **How to apply** Please apply in writing with CV and covering letter to: [e-mail]. In your covering letter, please tell us which Non-Negotiable you feel you are strongest at, with a real example. Data storage statement: 6 months. **Closing date for all applications: 4 November 2026.** **Please note you will be employed by an Agent of NFU Mutual and not NFU Mutual directly.**