Job Description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Agriculture Technology Opportunities Specialist

Location: UK Remote working, connected to Peterborough office

Are you an agri-tech pro? Are you looking to carve out a new exciting career for yourself within the tech industry? Do you enjoy getting to know all things tech and keen to identify what up and coming tech is worth investing in within agriculture?

AB Agri is an innovative provider of animal feed and nutritional technical expertise to the agriculture sector. Technology change in manufacturing technology, behavioral and predictive analytics, remote sensing, financial and commercial collaboration are a rich source of possible adoption by AB Agri - and you will be identifying those opportunities that best fit our businesses.

This new role will help to deliver a pipeline of new tech into the business that will provide AB Agri with competitive advantages by leading the sector.

What you\'ll be doing:

• Identifying, surveying and analysing technology opportunities emerging in the agriculture and industrial sectors for adoption by AB Agri.
• Qualify of the technology via financial and operational benefits forecasting, vendor stability and expertise, and curation of a pipeline of opportunities for review by the businesses.
• Build relationships with prospective vendors and helping to form collaboration with industry partners, via trade shows, technology user groups, vendor and product launches etc.
• Work with the AB Agri Architecture team to test the viability of adoption of new technology and interactions with the existing suite of systems and solutions.
• Create and present business cases to the ISD and senior leadership teams throughout AB Agri of effective, supportable and exciting technologies that will have a direct affect on our bottom line, or provide competitive advantages in other areas.

What you\'ll bring:

• Competent in deep-diving into technologies to identify the core capabilities that lie under the vendor\'s commercial presentations.
• Ability to build strong relationships, comfortable attending events and networking
• Inquisitiveness to the role, able and willing to challenge vendors on the detail of their offers, to get the best outcomes for AB Agri.
• An ability to organise several pipelines of opportunity at various stages of qualification, and to immerse yourself in the world of agricultural technology and spot cross-over technologies.
• A professional, business focused mindset.
• Full driving license

If this has peaked your interest and you would like to be considered for this brand new opportunity please apply today!

Skills & Experience

Not Specified

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 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 Agri, part 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.

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