New Entrant Opportunity: Ruminant Feed Sales
- Employer
- De Lacy Executive Recruitment
- Location
- Cumbria
- Salary
- Competitive basic salary + vehicle + bonus package
- Closing date
- 22 Dec 2024
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- Sector
- Animal Health, Animal Nutrition, Beef, Livestock, Sales & Marketing, Sheep
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Role
- Trainee
- Employer Type
- Recruitment Consultant
Job Details
With a highly competitive feed industry situated in an evolving market, it is important to choose the right business to shape and develop your career.
If you are eager to enter the feed industry, this business is committed to supporting new entrants to the feed sector with industry professionals to guide accordingly.
How does this opportunity compare to others?
• Team focused business, you are valued as an individual and not a figure.
• Learning from the best within the industry.
• Success is within; this team is built amongst ruminant nutritionists who offer first class technical advice to UK farmers.
• Consultative approaches rather than transactional.
• Solutions provided to suit both the needs of the herd as well as farm business.
• Diets provided based on evidence collected rather than blanket approach.
Role Responsibilities:
• Build and maintain strong relationships with farmers within Cumbria.
• Identify and pursue new sales opportunities to expand the customer base.
• Attend training opportunities to aid in professional development
• Collaborate with the technical team to offer tailored feed solutions.
• Achieve sales targets and contribute to regional growth.
Requirements:
• Strong knowledge of ruminant systems, particularly from a practical perspective.
• Confidence in meeting new people within the industry.
• Excellent communication and organisational skills.
• Self-motivated, with the ability to work independently.
• Full UK driving license and willingness to travel throughout Cumbria.
Curious to learn more? For more information and an informal confidential discussion please call Alex Wheeler on 01885 485525/075062 96301 or e-mail your CV (in word format) and covering letter to alex.wheeler@delacyexecutive.co.uk , thank you.
De Lacy Executive Recruitment will upload your CV to our database and retain some data about you in order to process your application. More information about our processing activities can be found at www.delacyexecutive.co.uk/privacypolicy. Please be assured that all contact is treated in complete confidence and your details will not be passed to a third party without your prior permission.
Please note that this advertisement is not a job description and you should satisfy yourself about the full details at interview.
De Lacy Executive Recruitment is an Approved member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which promotes high standards in recruitment practice, and is registered with the Information Commissioners Office. De Lacy Executive Recruitment complies with all relevant data protection legislation.
Company
De Lacy Executive acquisition increases recruitment resources
De Lacy Executive is pleased to announce that the agri-business recruitment consultancy has been acquired by AgCareers.com Canada, part of the Farms.com group. Farms.com is a supplier of innovative technology based information products, services and publications for the global agriculture and food industry. Farms.com has offices in Canada, USA, Australia and India and also owns and operates a 2,000 acre farm in Canada. A large number of leading organizations in the international agriculture and food industries are amongst its clients.
Graham Dyer, President of Farms.com believes "De Lacy Executive has a unique search and selection recruitment service based upon integrity and profound industry knowledge. We are thrilled to add this excellent team to our group. It will be 'business as usual' for this professional team. We will add to the De Lacy portfolio of services and spread the model to other sectors of UK land based business and to other parts of the world, benefitting our clientele and providing additional support and guidance for jobseekers. Combined with our AgCareers.com and CareersInFood.com job boards, we have an increasingly international offering in the agriculture and food industries."
The sale took effect on June 1st 2016. Stuart Goodinson is the Managing Director. John Davies, who founded De Lacy, will remain working closely with the company as a consultant to the business. Stuart says; "I believe the acquisition by AgCareers.com Canada provides additional products and services for the benefit of our clients and candidates - plus growth opportunities for us, both in the UK and in international markets. This change will increase our resource pool and search capability to ensure an even greater selection of top quality candidates for our recruitment clients."
De Lacy Executive is the principal recruitment specialist in the Agricultural and Land Based Business sector operating in the UK and Internationally with regional, national and global clients. We have been awarded Preferred Supplier List status with a number of major organisations.
The company was formed in 2000 and our extensive industry knowledge enables us to successfully assist our clients with vacancies in all disciplines from sales and marketing to technical and operations and at all levels from graduate trainees to chief executives. Our team of nine includes 8 who are the offspring of farmers and 6 who are agricultural graduates. Our agricultural credential are second to none.
We offer information and frank and honest advice to clients and job seekers. Career guidance is a key part of our work with candidates. Our service is free to candidates.
The Key Points to Our Business
Consultancy - We act in a consultancy capacity, adding value by devising a recruitment plan relevant to each client and each vacancy and then proactively searching and selecting the best candidates for clients whilst offering career advice to candidates.
Proactive searching for candidates - We don't wait to see if we receive applications. We use our own database and others, search websites, "head hunt" plus advertise on the most effective job boards to build our contacts and boost applicant numbers.
Our vacancies extend from graduate trainee to managing director - from sales through to technical, marketing, operations and production to R & D management.
Our specialism extends from the agricultural supply trade (arable, livestock, machinery and equipment etc) to farm management, primary food and fresh produce, horticulture, equestrian, environment, renewable energy and a diverse range of Rural and Land-based Business vacancies.
Integrity and Confidentiality - De Lacy Executive is approved as a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which oversees the UK's recruitment industry (REC Membership Number: 00082047) and is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under the Data Protection Act.
Commitment - We are committed to the industry and try to give something back through sponsorship of events and scholarships.
Ambassadors - We act in a professional manner recognising that we act on behalf of our clients.
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