Formulation Nutritionist Piglet or Poultry - South West England, United Kingdom - AB Agri Limited

AB Agri Limited

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South West England, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title:
Formulation Nutritionist (Piglet or Poultry)

Location:
Hybrid - Melmerby, Ripon (required to be in the office ideally - 3 days per week ideally)
Are you passionate about animal nutrition and farming? Would you like to be instrumental in offering young farmed animals (in particular piglets and poultry) the best start in life?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our growing Primary Diets technical team to ensure class leading products and technical support in all of our markets (UK and overseas).

With factories in four countries (UK, Poland, Spain and Denmark), the businessaims to become an international leader in targeted markets in the nutrition for young farmed animals.

The current portfolio consists of milk replacers, starter feeds, specialist raw materials, starter feed concentrates and feed additives.

In this varied role, you will join a team of nutritionists supporting the provision of R&D, product development, technical expertise and services.

You will be a critical part of diet development to enhance our product range and utilise market research toensure we continue to be market leaders in piglet nutrition.

We are looking for someone who has an understanding and respect for feed safety who enjoys keeping up to date with the latest industry changes.

You will also be an excellent communicator with the ability to build strong working relationships with our technical,production and quality teams.

What you'll be doing:

Diet formulation and set up
Up to date with legislative changes and legal declarations of the product portfolio.
Able to work as part of both the wider Primary Diets and AB Neo technical teams to deliver leading Research and Development.
Attending scientific conferences and relevant trade shows to ensure Primary Diets is well informed regarding current trends and market developments within the industry.
Collate gathered information and produce literature reviews on specific topics which can then be used to inform future technical decisions and research ideas.
Facilitate rapid progress of technical projects through direct management of a project, or coordination of activity.

As part of this role you will have the opportunity to be involved in research trials and data analysis, including new ground breaking trials at our own centre of excellence based in Spain

What you'll bring:

A relevant scientific degree in animal science or similar
Masters or PhD desirable in relevant scientific discipline
Experience of working for an animal feed business in a similar nutrition/technical support role
Really understands what makes their customers, consumers and markets tick
Ability to translate research to deliver commercial value
Ability to recognise innovative opportunities
Strong communicator, able to work well with a variety of stakeholders

Rewarding your passion
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
AB Neo a specialist business bringing together the expertise of four successful companies with the aim of revolutionising nutrition for all neonates.

Bring your talents to AB Neo and play your part in producingaffordable, high quality and responsible food for the growing global population.

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 dataservices 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 inclusiveculture.

Application Notes

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.