Job Title: Product & Procurement Specialist
Location: UK Hybrid (with travel to Peterborough and Sherborne)
Package includes Salary from £30,000 plus matched pension contributions and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.
Contract / Shift Pattern: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week – Mon-Fri
We're looking for a Product & Procurement Specialist to join our team and oversee a portfolio of moist and liquid co-products.
This role moves quickly and centres on commercial priorities, with each day presenting new challenges.
You'll be responsible for balancing supply and demand, supporting site clearance, managing margins, and making commercial decisions that deliver the ideal outcome for the business.
Working closely with Product Coordinators, suppliers, sales teams and other stakeholders, you'll play a key role in ensuring products keep moving while identifying opportunities for new business and supply growth.
What You'll Be Doing
- Taking ownership of an aligned portfolio of moist and liquid products.
- Making site clearance a priority, working closely with Product Coordinators to respond to changing production volumes.
- Balancing supply and demand across seasonal and day-to-day fluctuations.
- Managing product margins and making commercially sound decisions.
- Building effective relationships with suppliers, sales teams, on-farm sellers and other stakeholders.
- Interpreting market information and trends to support decision-making.
- Responding quickly to unexpected challenges and finding practical solutions.
- Supporting opportunities to secure new products and develop new business.
- Participating in the team's out-of-hours weekend on-call rota.
What We're Looking For
- Experience managing products, categories or a similar area of commercial responsibility.
- Experience managing margins and making commercial decisions.
- The ability to interpret market data, trends and wider commercial factors.
- Ability to manage responsibilities and deliver measurable outcomes.
- Good problem-solving skills and the ability to thrive in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to work on your own initiative.
- Solid communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Flexibility to travel and adapt working hours when required.
Agricultural experience would be beneficial but isn't essential. We're particularly interested in candidates with experience in procurement, product management, category management, supply chain, commodities or other commercially focused environments where balancing supply, demand and margins is a key part of the role.
Additional Information:
The current expectation is a minimum of four office days per month, split between Peterborough and Sherburn, although flexibility is available depending on business needs. During your first few months, you'll spend more time in the office to support training, system learning and relationship building across the team.
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.
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.
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.
