Overview
Dairy Performance Specialist – United Kingdom
Job Title: Dairy Performance Specialist
Location: Severn Estuary / South Wales, UK
Contract type and shift: Permanent, Monday – Friday – 37.5 hours per week
Package includes Salary from £50,000 (depending on experience) plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%
We are recruiting a Dairy Performance Specialist to support the delivery of commercial growth, customer retention and relationship management across the South West territory. Acting as a trusted nutritional adviser to dairy farmers, the role combines the strengths of both sales and nutritional consultancy to deliver value-led solutions using the full portfolio of Asterra businesses, including KW Feeds, NMR, Feedlync and associated services. As a Dairy Performance Specialist, you’ll be the trusted partner helping dairy farmers improve performance, profitability and long-term success across your territory
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Develop long-term partnerships with dairy farmers and farm businesses.
- Conduct regular reviews to ensure customers gain maximum value from products and services.
- Analyse farm and herd performance data to provide practical, value-driven recommendations.
- Help customers improve productivity, profitability and overall farm efficiency.
- Grow existing accounts while identifying and winning new business opportunities.
- Promote a broad portfolio of feed, herd health, milk recording, genomic and consultancy solutions.
- Create integrated solutions that meet customer needs and deliver measurable results.
- Collaborate with colleagues across multiple businesses to provide the best outcome for customers.
- Represent the business at farm walks, industry events, customer meetings and agricultural forums.
- Maintain a strong sales pipeline and accurate CRM records.
- Monitor territory performance and identify opportunities for growth.
- Turn data and market intelligence into commercial opportunities.
What you will bring:
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- Agricultural sales or account management experience
- Strong consultative selling and relationship-building skills
- Commercial awareness and negotiation capability
- Understanding of dairy/livestock farming systems
- CRM and pipeline management experience
- Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel
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
We’re AB Agri, part 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.
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