2024 Savills Graduate Programme - Food and Farming Oxford, England
Job description
Job title
Food & Farming Graduate
Start Date
September 2024
Job Location
Oxford & Cambridge
Salary
£25,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus (Please note this is being reviewed so may increase)
Current Team Information
The Farming industry is constantly evolving.
The Savills Food and Farming team consists of 45 consultants spread across 12 offices throughout England and Wales, making it one of the biggest agricultural consultancy teams in the country. Despite its size the Food and Farming team prides itself on offering a personable and bespoke service to its clients. The work undertaken by the Food & Farming team can broadly be broken down into two categories – management and consultancy work. Management work consists of helping clients with day to day farm management. Consultancy typically comprises assisting clients with one off ad-hoc pieces of work and projects. Within both types of work our team will assist with all of the agricultural sectors including arable, horticultural, beef, sheep, dairy, pig and poultry enterprises.
Never before has the farming industry faced so many new challenges and opportunities. The pressures of providing cheap food within a sustainable environment, combined with new agricultural and environmental policy, means the sector continues to be a very exciting industry to work and develop a career in. The Savills Food & Farming team is therefore looking to expand to meet the increased demand from clients.
The roles will be based in
Cambridge - The Savills Food & Farming team based out of Cambridge sit within a multi-disciplinary office operating with a combination of management and consultancy clients across the east of England. The team focuses primarily on larger arable farming units to include the management of day-to-day operations, one off environmental and grant funding projects alongside adding value to each of those businesses.
Oxford - The Oxford Food & Farming team is a close knit team consisting of three members of staff - a Director, Associate Director and a Consultant. The team is predominantly focused on providing farm management advice to clients throughout Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Due to the nature of our clients the team is very involved with organic farming systems, regenerative farming and environmental stewardship schemes. The Oxford Food & Farming team is very forward thinking and always striving to improve processes and include technology in their day to day work – for example the team have just purchased a drone to assist with surveys and mapping. The team works very closely with the Cirencester Food & Farming team, which consists of another four members of staff.
About this role
A Savills Food and Farming graduate will gain a wide range of experience across a multitude of areas including; farm business management, financial reporting, budgeting, rural grants, subsidies, rural planning and environmental management.
Graduates will gather technical expertise relevant to their region and local farming businesses. Food and Farming graduates will develop their consultancy skills and industry knowledge through engagement with a diverse range of clients and their farming businesses, involving themselves in a variety of projects, listening and learning from others within the office and networking with other Savills teams.
Click here to hear from Chloe, one of our Food and Farming Graduates.
Click here to hear from Tim, to learn more about our Food and Farming team.
How you’ll make an impact
- High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
- Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
- Ability to empower those around them
- A team player with leadership potential
- Strategic approach to problem solving
- Ability to challenge in a positive way
- Highly motivated
- Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
- Computer literate
Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.
Training
The Savills Food and Farming graduate pathway is unique in the industry and is designed to train graduates to become genuine experts in their field. Graduates will complete the BIAC Foundation 1 and 2 course during their first two years with us. This will be supplemented by additional bespoke in-house training courses designed and delivered by the Food & Farming team.
Career development
After completing the two year graduate scheme, you will submit a report outlining your experiences and will attend a final interview to then progress and become a fully qualified Food and Farming consultant.
There are a range of other training courses to help your development after the graduate programme including the Management and Leadership Programme, Client and Business Skills sessions, and a full programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events.
Benefits
- Permanent Contract for all graduates, as opposed to a 2 year training contract
- Interest free season ticket loan
- Pension Scheme – Royal London
- Company mobile phone
- Training and BIAC costs covered
- 25 days annual leave
- Employee discounts - save money using our MyRewards on thousands of discounts and offers
- Pitch your idea to our Board via the Savills Dragons Den (Innovation and growth initiative)
- Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
- Employee Assistance Programme – A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- ShareSave - Save As You Earn share option scheme
Assessment for this role
Online Application – CLICK HERE TO APPLY - Applications close at 5pm on 8th November 2023
Online Assessment - Arctic Shores (will be sent on application completion and will need to be completed by 9am on 9th November 2023)
Assessment Centre – 5th & 7th December in London. Please note you will only be asked to attend 1 assessment centre date.
Potential interview with local team following the Assessment Centre
