Blends Development Manager
The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting a Blends Development Manager.
The Blends Development Manger will support and grow the sales budget of blended product, formulated and dispatched from NWF’s blending plant.
- To generate the sales of blended products
- To drive volume at the NWF blended plants
- Record sales activity and detail results monthly
- Identify trends in customer behavior and generate sales opportunities
- Support the sales team with enquiries for blend formulations and prices
- To work closely with the Customer Service, New Business, Production and Transport teams
- Nutritionally improve and develop new blends
The Package
Competitive salary, flexible/hybrid working arrangement, 25 days holiday per annum. 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
Senior Ruminant Sales Specialist
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
National Sales & Supply Co-Ordinator
The National Sales & Supplier Coordinator is responsible for collaborating with internal and external sales teams to streamline after-sales processes, acting as the primary point of contact for suppliers and sales personnel to resolve issues and increase re-ordering. They manage the direct sales inbox, distributing enquiries to the appropriate team members, and liaise between sales teams and suppliers to address and mitigate after-sales issues like invoice queries, delivery delays and complaints. The role involves controlling mill stock levels by implementing buffer stocks, executing marketing campaigns, and reporting on incentives and competitions. The coordinator utilizes the CRM system to support analysis and activity drives, assists with product price management and communication, and performs ad-hoc duties as requested by management. Key performance indicators include tracking Third party product complaints, direct sales, and stock constraints.
How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@nwfagriculture.co.uk
Ruminant Sales Specialist
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
Direct Sales Executive
The role
NWF Agriculture is recruiting three direct sales executives to actively outbound call to prospective customers (B2B), gaining new business for NWF, and cross selling across our full portfolio. You will be predominantly focussing on outbound customer calls, creating and maintaining a pipeline of future customers through follow up calls and activities, with KPI’s such as number of sales, contribution gained, and new business won.
- Outbound telesales experience essential (full product training will be provided)
- Highly motivated and ambitious to hit and exceed targets
- Polite and friendly telephone manner, with the confidence to close a sale there and then
- Excellent communication skills
- IT literate including MS Office
- Someone who thrives and can contribute to a hardworking and dynamic team
- Willingness to learn, develop and build on feedback
How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@nwfagriculture.co.uk
Regional Sales Executive (Telephone Based)
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
Commercial Team Administrator
The role
The role of the CTA involves delivering efficient and effective administrative support to NWF, with a strong focus on commercial awareness and maximizing cost efficiencies. Key responsibilities include managing, communicating, and distributing KPI information, producing relevant reports, and providing management information. The CTA must ensure that all administration procedures for both suppliers and customers are accurately followed, and that orders are processed promptly. Additionally, the CTA is expected to demonstrate excellent organisational skills, including the ability to multitask and prioritise workload based on company needs and deadlines. Acting as the point of contact for colleagues and suppliers, the CTA will provide support and manage queries to ensure smooth operations.
Skills and knowledge
- Previous administrative and orders processing experience preferred but full training will be provided
- Flexible, punctual, and able to meet multiple deadlines
- Confident, self-motivated with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to deliver a high level of customer service.
- Highly organised with a ‘can do’ approach
How do I apply?
Please send your Curriculum Vitae and covering letter to hr@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.
