Area Coordinator - Northamptonshire / Leicestershire

AB Agri Ltd; East Midlands; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural company in Northamptonshire is seeking an Area Coordinator to manage data collection and milk sampling across farms. This role requires a valid UK Driving Licence and offers competitive salary and benefits. Early morning availability is essential. Success in this role requires strong time management and teamwork skills.

Benefits

Annual salary reviews

Incentive bonus

Ongoing career development

Enhanced family benefits

Qualifications

• A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Able to work early mornings when required.

Responsibilities

• Home based but covering a wide area of farms.
• Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
• Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
• Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.

Skills

Time management skills

Self-motivated

Ability to work effectively within a team

Great attention to detail

Fully PC literate

Milk recording experience

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Area Coordinator

Location: Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

Contract: Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishes

Salary: £24,753.08 + Van + Fuel Card / Allowance

Responsibilities

• Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
• Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
• Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
• Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
• Transport sample boxes/shuttles
• Complete NMR robot shuttle recording if required.
• Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.

Key Qualifications / About you

• Time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
• Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
• Fully PC literate
• Milk recording and/or practical dairy farming experience - desirable

Additional Information

• A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Able to work early mornings when required.

About The Company

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

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 National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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.