Job Title: Area Coordinator
Location: Cumbria, North West England, UK
Contract: Permanent, Monday to Friday – Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishes
Salary: £25,371.91 + Van + Fuel Card / Allowance
Are you interested in agriculture and collecting information to help dairy farmers with their herd management?
Would you like to have a more flexible work pattern?
If the answer to the above is YES – then this could be the role for you!
The Area Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of a full milk recording service.
This involves regular visits to farms within the above area, collecting event data about individual cows and updating the NMR database.
It can also involve taking milk samples from each cow as they are milked as and when required. The role will involve the robot shuttle hire service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
- Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
- Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
- Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
- Transport sample boxes/shuttles
- Complete NMR robot shuttle recording
- Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.
About you:
- Time management skills
- Self-motivated
- Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
- Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
- Fully PC literate
- Milk recording and/or practical dairy farming experience - desirable
Additional Information:
- A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
- Able to work early mornings when required.
Where growth meets purpose
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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
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.
Decoding milk data, building robust insights.
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 National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.
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.
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.
