General Manager ABN

AB Agri Ltd; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a visionary General Manager to lead its market-leading animal feed business. This exciting role involves driving strategic direction, managing P&L, and fostering a high-performance culture. You'll be at the forefront of shaping the future of animal nutrition, building engaged teams, and developing strong customer relationships. Join a company that values innovation and inclusivity, where your leadership can make a significant impact on both the business and the community. If you're ready to take on this challenge and thrive in a dynamic environment, this opportunity is for you.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonus

Ongoing career development

Enhanced family benefits

Financial wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Significant leadership experience in the animal feed industry.
• Strong commercial mindset and proven ability to manage client relationships.

Responsibilities

• Setting strategic direction with full P&L accountability.
• Leading a customer-centric organization delivering technical excellence.

Skills

Leadership in animal feed industry

P&L accountability

Commercial mindset

Client relationship management

Team building

Communication skills

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

General Manager – ABN

Location: Hybrid, with regular travel to Peterborough, ABN sites and customer locations

Are you a visionary leader with deep commercial acumen and a strong track record in the animal feed industry? Do you thrive on creating high-performing, engaged teams and delivering meaningful business growth? If so, this is a rare and exciting opportunity to shape the future of ABN.

As General Manager, you'll take full responsibility for the performance and success of ABN, the UK’s market leader in pig and poultry feed. You’ll lead a talented leadership team and oversee all areas of the business, from commercial and supply chain to manufacturing and technical operations,ensuring strategic delivery, financial strength, and a culture where people and customers thrive.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Setting strategic direction and bringing our ambitious growth plans to life, with full P&L accountability.

• Leading and developing an engaged, customer-centric organisation that delivers technical excellence and long-term value.

• Driving a culture of continuous improvement across health and safety, feed safety, manufacturing excellence, and innovation.

• Creating strong, trusted relationships with customers, industry bodies and key stakeholders across AB Agri and beyond.

• Building and sustaining an inclusive, high-performance environment, with clear succession plans and ongoing leadership development.

What you’ll bring:

• Significant leadership experience in the animal feed industry, with end-to-end P&L ownership.

• A strong commercial mindset and a proven ability to grow and manage strategic client relationships.

• Deep market understanding, with a flair for spotting opportunities, solving challenges and shaping future product or service offerings.

• A track record of building highly engaged, high-performing teams and creating a great place to work.

• Confident communication and influencing skills, with the presence to lead at pace and inspire others—across the board and beyond the business.

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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

ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.

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.

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.