Careers

The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting established Ruminant Sales Specialists across North Wales & Central England.  The successful candidates will need to have extensive knowledge of UK agriculture, livestock farming and previous animal feed sales experience.  In addition to selling compound feeds, standard and bespoke blends, the successful candidate will work closely with the Trading Team to sell a variety of added-value products including straights, protected feeds, molasses, minerals, milk powder, supplements, seeds, fertiliser and silage additives.

• Identify business opportunities to negotiate, sell and close on-farm deals to increase sales.
• Provide advice on NWF’s extensive range of products.
• Excellent communication skills with strong connections to the farming community.
• Strong technical capability in ruminant nutrition required.
• Ability to solve nutritional problems and on-farm understanding of ruminant diets, milk records, costings, etc.
• Good IT skills.
• Full UK driving license.

The Package
Extremely competitive salary, bonus, car, phone, laptop and other benefits. The remuneration package will reflect the experience and potential of the successful applicant.

How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@nwfagriculture.co.uk

The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting Ruminant Sales Specialists across North Wales & Central England. In addition to selling compound feeds, standard and bespoke blends, the successful candidate will work closely with the Trading Team to sell a variety of added-value products including straights, protected feeds, molasses, minerals, milk powder, supplements, seeds, fertiliser and silage additives.

• Identify business opportunities to negotiate, sell and close on-farm deals to increase sales.
• Provide advice on NWF’s extensive range of products.
• Excellent communication skills with strong connections to the farming community.
• Strong technical capability in ruminant nutrition required.
• Ability to solve nutritional problems and on-farm understanding of ruminant diets, milk records, costings, etc.
• Good IT skills.
• Full UK driving license.

The Package
Competitive salary, bonus, car, phone, laptop and other benefits. The remuneration package will reflect the experience and potential of the successful applicant.

How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@nwfagriculture.co.uk

The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting Regional Sales Executives to work from our head office and production site at Wardle, Nantwich, Cheshire.  The role reports to the Third Party Product Manager to drive and support the sale of specific traded products nationally. The role requires new sales opportunities to be identified for selling to existing and potential customers working very closely with the NWF Sales Specialists.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsibility for specific third party product sales including budget, campaigns, targets, performance and results.
• Work with NWF Sales Specialists in all regions to increase the sales, volumes and margin.
• Work with CSD to ensure follow up on product-specific monthly campaigns, ensure CSD are fully scripted on.
• Develop marketing strategies to increase sales, measure success and adjust accordingly to achieve agreed targets.
• Participate and be active in the company system of keeping customer records, sales planning, sales reporting, product knowledge etc.
• Manage changes in product prices with manufacturers as they occur relaying price increase/decreases to national Sales Specialists.

Skills and knowledge

• Confident on the telephone with the ability to identify sales opportunities, build good relationships and network at all levels
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, effective under pressure
• Experience of in-house computer systems
• Strong organisational and time management skills so that results are delivered and deadlines met
• Enthusiastic, flexible, adaptable and resilient
• Ability to collate, capture and record complex information with good attention to detail
• Knowledge of the Agriculture and Farming industry

Experience

• Previous experience of working in a sales role over the phone.
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft programmes including excel and access.

The Package
Extremely competitive salary and other benefits. The remuneration package will reflect the experience and potential of the successful applicant.

How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@nwfagriculture.co.uk

We believe that the highest level of advice, delivered in an applied and practical manner, is key to helping achieve a sustainable and profitable business for British farmers. Food production is becoming ever more critical to meet the growing demands of a global population increase. This requires the modern farmer to be efficient and profitable. Achieving this requires inputs from specialists in the industry, the aim of this academy is to produce the highest level of ruminant advisors to assist Britain’s farmers in developing a sustainable future.

The NWF Academy is designed to teach the feed advisors of the future, providing both a practical and academic process to help your sales and product knowledge and expertise. Each applicant will follow a program that will be monitored by a program coordinator, as well as this, each applicant will work with a mentor who will be an established on-farm advisor. Alongside this, you will also complete training with specialist suppliers, along with links to educational institutes.

For more information on the NWF Academy, click HERE.