Senior Consultant - Business Specialist (Kite)

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

Job summary

An established industry player seeks a Senior Consultant - Business Specialist to provide expert consultative advice to dairy farmers across the UK. This pivotal role involves enhancing consultancy services, managing key account relationships, and leading a network of business consultants. The ideal candidate will possess strong interpersonal skills, a solid background in agriculture, and a proven track record in business consultancy. Join a forward-thinking company committed to excellence and innovation in the agricultural sector, where your expertise will directly impact the success of clients and the industry as a whole.

Qualifications

• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills are crucial.
• Experience in business consultancy within the agricultural sector is essential.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-level strategic advice to farm accounts.
• Expand business consultancy value and key account relationships.
• Inspire and support a network of business consultants.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Effective communication

Agricultural knowledge

Deadline management

Business consultancy experience

Education

Agri-Business Degree Grade 2:1+

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Senior Consultant - Business Specialist

Location: Home based, countrywide, UK

Are you a specialist in providing quality consultative advice to Dairy farmers? Do you have experience in liaising between clients and 3rd party contacts? Do you have what it takes to lead, inspire and support a network of business consultants, maximising the value and efficiency of delivery?

In this position, you will be instrumental in enhancing the services of Kite Business Consultancy through careful identification of evolving agricultural requirements and the evaluation of our solutions and programs for added impact.

Key tasks:

1. Secure and expand value of business consultancy for Kite
2. Secure and expand the value of key account relationships and stakeholder relationships e.g. Banks
3. Delivery of business consultancy and high level strategic advice to 15-25 farm accounts
4. Develop national profile and thought leadership platform, increasing the profile of Kite Consulting and AB Dairy
5. Review and update the business consultancy delivery tools for future client/market needs
6. Inspire and support network of business consultants

What you'll bring:

1. Comprehensive interpersonal and stakeholder management skills
2. Effective communication and relationship building ability
3. Agricultural / Dairy farming knowledge
4. Deadline driven with the ability to coordinate multiple tasks
5. Agri-Business Degree Grade 2:1+ (or equivalent evidential working experience)
6. Business consultancy experience within the agricultural or dairy industry

Location

This role is home based visiting clients across the UK, therefore someone based in Midlands, UK would be ideal.

About The Company

The quality of our people makes us unique

Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, proud of our knowledge-base and relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence building success through the success of our customers.

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.