Job Description

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Formulator

Location: Hybrid, Peterborough UK,

12 Month FTC with potential to become permanent, Monday to Friday, + Saturday & Sunday on a rota system (1 weekend per month)

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled formulator to join our dynamic team at AB Agri. As a formulator, you will play a pivotal role in developing and formulating cutting-edge agricultural products that contribute to the advancement of modern farming practices, and the delivery of excellent product and nutritional quality at optimal cost for the customer and business alike.

You will do this by challenging, testing, and enhancing production, nutritional and unit costs; whilst keeping an eye on optimal consistency of both the product and process.

Working with the Formulation Team and wider procurement team your role will be instrumental.

What will you be doing

• Work with and help develop our processes and procedures to deliver optimised feed formulations that meet the physical and nutritional quality standards of the business
• Effectively utilise and develop the formulation system tools to provide optimised solutions and essential and timely information outputs to support key stakeholders in the procurement process
• Actively work to develop collaborative culture between formulations and other business functions
• Maintain an ongoing awareness of raw material availability and customer specifications to inform procurement decisions

What we are looking for

• Someone with a keen interest in Agriculture and/or Animal Feed
• Scientific Background - hands on experience or Educational
• An inquisitive nature
• Experience of working with nutrition formulation and/or production manufacturing software
• Numerate with excellent attention to detail
• Great communicator
• Ability to multi-task

This is a great opportunity to work at the forefront of agricultural innovation and make a significant impact on global food production.

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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