Swine Nutrition Manager ( Technology Application Manager)

AB Agri Ltd

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Technology Application Manager (Technical Manager Swine)

Division: AB Neo
Location: UK
Role Type: Permanent

ABNeo is a leading, innovative young farmed animal nutrition business focused on delivering excellence in nutritional and technical support. We are seeking a dynamic Technology Application Manager to lead our UK technical team, drive innovation, and ensure our customers' needs are met with cutting-edge solutions.

As the Technology Application Manager, you will actively contribute to ABNeo UK's nutrition activities, guiding the technical team to deliver exceptional nutritional and technical support. Your leadership will ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation and customer satisfaction in piglet nutrition.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership: Lead the UK technical team, delivering top-tier commercial nutritional expertise for sales, marketing, and other business needs.
Nutrition Expertise: Demonstrate excellence in piglet nutrition and formulation capabilities.
Content Creation: Generate technical papers and articles for marketing communications, both internal and external.
R&D Support: Participate in feed material evaluations, trials, and provide commercial insights.
Innovation: Develop technical ideas that add value to product sales and identify new opportunities for growth.
Supplier Engagement: Evaluate new products, concepts, and additives by meeting with suppliers.
Collaboration: Actively participate in ABNeo technical and R&D discussions.
Technical Support: Provide expert guidance to internal teams and customers, ensuring queries are handled professionally and efficiently.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Deliver effective ideation processes to create market solutions that benefit ABNeo and its customers.
Foster a strong culture of innovation through engagement with commercial and technical teams.
Identify new development opportunities within the current product portfolio.
Ensure our product portfolio continues to meet customer requirements and adds value to ABNeo UK.

Essential Skills & Experience:

Minimum 4 years of experience in a nutrition company with formulation expertise.
Proven ability to lead a technical team to deliver innovative, value-creating products and services.
Strong communication skills with internal and external stakeholders.
Self-motivated, proactive, and able to think strategically about the broader business.
Ability to recognize innovative opportunities and convert them into valuable solutions.
Organized, able to manage multiple changing priorities effectively.
Experience in piglet nutrition and formulation.
Proven ability to work collaboratively within a team to achieve shared objectives.

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonuses to 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 are 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 producing affordable, 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 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 anything else) just let us know.

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.