Ruminant Sales Specialist
The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting Ruminant Sales Specialists in the North West, Central, and South-West of 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 careers@nwfagriculture.co.uk
Regional Sales Executive (Telephone Based)
The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting Sales Product Coordinators 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 CV and covering letter to adam.jenkinson@nwfagriculture.co.uk
Commercial Analyst
The role
We are looking for a commercial analyst to join the Finance team. The commercial analyst will produce a complete analysis across a number of commercial areas with the aim of increasing visibility and decision-making processes. The person will be focused on preparing and issuing weekly PSA reports on raw material allocation, offtake & weekly cover information, monitoring new contracts and performing control checks on raw material prices.
The person will work closely with the Financial Reporting Accountant, sales specialists and customer service departments to improve profitability across the business whilst ensuring contracts are priced correctly. The individual will also work with the procurement team to help improve processes and monitoring around allocation, cost reports and management of raw materials.
Skills and knowledge
- Previous commercial analyst experience.
- Previous experience with SQL basics, macros and power query within excel.
- Previous experience working with large datasets.
- Methodological and logical approach to problems.
- Proven track record of identifying improvements and their successful implementation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- IT literate including MS Office.
The Package
- Competitive Salary
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
- Additional leave purchase scheme.
- Company Pension
How do I apply?
Please send your CV and covering letter to careers@nwfagriculture.co.uk
Purchase Ledger Assistant
The role
This role is designed to oversee the registration, approval and payment of invoices in a timely manner while managing suppliers and their queries. The post holder will be responsible for 1/3 of supplier accounts.
The Purchase Ledger Assistant will be focused on managing the incoming invoices and accurately registering the received invoices into AX so they can be accessed from the system once registered. The candidate will match the invoices to COs and POs and distribute any unmatched documents and queries to the relevant internal departments ensuring resolution by the invoice due date. The candidate will develop excellent working relationships with suppliers to support quick resolution of any external queries and will be required to set up and maintain new supplier accounts.
Skills and knowledge
- Previous purchase ledger experience.
- Attention to detail, ensuring invoices are input accurately.
- Ability to work to strict deadlines.
- Excellent organisational skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- IT literate including MS Office.
The package
Competitive salary and other benefits. The remuneration package will reflect the experience and potential of the successful applicant.
- Competitive Salary
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
- Additional leave purchase scheme.
- Company Pension
How do I apply?
Please send your CV and covering letter to careers@nwfagriculture.co.uk
NWF Academy
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.