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SalaryLocation: Peterborough, UK (Hybrid)
Role: 12-month Fixed Term Contract
Shift – Monday to Friday 08:30 – 17:00 – (2 days per week based in the Peterborough Offices)
The Monogastric Nutritionist has an important part in implementing excellence in nutrition for ABN customers, collaborating with the ABN technical team. The role ensures the delivery of safe, high-performance feed, fostering customer confidence and satisfaction.
The primary focus of the role is to enhance the ABN offering through contribution to product specifications, innovation, research and development, public relations, marketing, and training initiatives . Additionally, the role is responsible for ensuring feed safety and legality, including ingredient introduction, labelling, and response to quality control results.
Role Objectives:
- Interpret performance data and understand customer requirements to deliver the customer proposition in alignment with the Commercial team.
- Ensure pig and poultry product specifications are safe, legal, and meet business objectives.
- Collaborate with the nutrition team to ensure the production of safe and legally compliant feed, including new ingredient introduction and label requirements.
- Demonstrate competency in feed safety related tasks as identified in the Feed Safety RACI
- Contribute to R&D by establishing priorities, preparing trial protocols, monitoring progress, and presenting outcomes.
- Assist in the preparation of product literature, marketing materials, and PR activities.
- Participate in the investigation of nutrition-related complaints and variations in product tolerances.
- Assist in the preparation and delivery of nutritional training to the business.
- Effective communication and influencing skills including with customers, third party nutritionists, feed ingredient suppliers, and veterinary professionals.
About you:
- Degree level in biological science, PhD preferable
- Knowledge of nutrition, production, and performance data interpretation
- Practical application of nutrition in a commercial role
- Ability to develop R&D plans and interpret results.
- Understanding of pig and poultry supply chains and feed legislation
Other Factors:
- Hybrid role with an expectation of spending time at the AB Agri Head Office in Peterborough
- Travel required to ABN mills and customer facilities in the UK, with some overnight stays.
- Full UK Driving License required.
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.
