Kite Dairy Consultant - Business​/West Region

AB Agri Ltd is hiring a Kite Dairy Consultant for the Southwest Region, offering a home-based position with 2-3 days of travel per week. The role involves building long-term client relationships, providing strategic consultancy to enhance dairy business operations, and collaborating with various financial and legal advisors. Candidates should have a degree related to agriculture or finance, strong analytical skills, and experience in dairy or business consultancy.
Position: Kite Dairy Consultant - Business (South West Region)

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title:
Kite Dairy Consultant - Business (Southwest Region)

Location:
Home Based with 2-3 days per week travelling

Contract:
Permanent / Full Time

Are you skilled at building long-term business relationships, encouraging innovation, and providing a consultative approach to clients? This is an excellent opportunity to work with our Southwest-based farm clients looking to grow or transform their businesses. You will support them with solutions and plans to elevate their operations to the next level.

About the Role: As part of the Kite South West Team, you will join a growing team of consultants and dairy specialists. Our mission is to enable a responsible and sustainable growing dairy sector in the UK. This role focuses on the financial sustainability of our clients. You will develop a client portfolio in dairy business consultancy, supported by attending regular dairy events and networking opportunities, to offer our clients optimal market, commercial, and financial advice.

Collaboration with financial advisors, accountants, banking, and legal firms is key to enabling change for our customers with a unified approach.

Key Responsibilities:
• Provide strategic and analytical advice with a focus on profitability, sustainability, and return on investment.
• Utilise benchmarking data to ensure competitiveness and growth.
• Employ business tools for budgeting and monitoring purposes.
• Understand business and financial structures for succession and development.

What You'll Bring:
• A degree in Animal Science, Agriculture, Business or Finance (Essential)
• Advanced Excel, PowerPoint, and Word skills to use and develop business monitoring systems (Essential)
• Highly motivated individuals who link into the many projects we undertake (Essential)
• Comprehensive organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to deliver multiple tasks and deadlines (Essential)
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills (Essential)
• Effective communication and relationship-building skills (Essential)
• Tact and diplomacy when working closely with personal matters (Essential)
• Enjoy working in a target-oriented environment with a commercial mindset (Essential)
• Previous experience in agriculture, dairy, or financial/business advisory (Desirable)
• Comprehensive understanding of UK dairy farming and market trends (Desirable)
• Proven history in developing sales and high-value consultancy (Desirable)
• Knowledge of farming business financial structures, including accounting and budgeting (Desirable)
• Must possess a driving license.

Additional Information:

GB travel will be required to visit clients and attend internal and external events/meetings. May require staying away from home 2-4 days per month.

If you are seeking a varied, commercial, and strategic opportunity to build a solid network and reputation in this exciting, evolving industry while fast-tracking your career, this role is right for you!

About The Company

The quality of our people makes us unique

Kite Consulting provides business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, proud of our knowledge base and the relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence and building success through our customers' success.

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. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers - and that’s because of great people like you.

People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we’re building a fair, innovative, and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone, so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter - or…