Agriculture Biodiversity and Sustainability Assistant Birmingham, England
Job description
Agriculture Biodiversity and Sustainability Assistant
2 Sisters Food Group – Colmore Row, Birmingham (Hybrid)
3 Days Per Week (M/W/F)
Competitive Pro Rata Salary and Benefits
2 Sisters Food Group are recruiting for a driven, diligent, and creative Agriculture Biodiversity and Sustainability Assistant to support a well-established team with several new projects.
About Us:
When you join 2 Sisters Food Group, you will become part of one of the UK’s largest food manufacturers with ambitious plans and as such you can look forward to working with a group of talented colleagues with a shared passion for quality, service and most importantly, food.
This role will support our entire company, providing great tasting products to the nation, from chicken to ready meals, pizza and pies. We employ over 13,500 staff across 18 sites in the UK and this role will pay a crucial part in supporting them
About the Role:
Reporting directly to the Senior Agriculture Development Manager, the Agriculture Biodiversity and Sustainability Assistant will join a team that are part of the Group Technical function, integral to the UKP division, part of the Hook2sisters joint venture and reporting to the Group Technical Director.
The position will require an excellent knowledge and willingness to further improve your environmental/bio-diversity skills, a good basic understanding of agriculture, and general exposure to the Food Manufacturing sector.
As a key member of the Agricultural team this Assistant will take a full and active role in supporting the team to deliver brand protection activities and make 2SFG agriculture a POD.
Duties of the role will include:
- Best practice account management– regular contact, formalised KPI reporting & meeting structure
- Day to day liaison on agricultural enviro/biodiversity issues / projects / performance
- Close working relationship with H2S management to maintain understanding of the entire 2SFG agricultural supply chain
- People capability- work part of a team
- To drive continuous improvement in the Agricultural function
- Responsibility for nominated projects in the innovation pipeline to advance 2SFG Agricultural strategy and deliver added value for the business and customers
- Sustainability- to work with the Group Sustainability team on relevant issues in the Agricultural supply chain eg Soya, carbon, bio-diversity
- Use our carbon data and add value from our farm’s sequestrations and biodiversity assets
- Excellent presentation skills, clear, conscience, confident and a passion for food and environmental protection
- Be agile and can self-manage but work part of a dynamic team
- Input into Divisional Agri strategy aligned to an end-to-end approach; hatchery- feed mills-farms- factories
- Deliver and exceed performance targets in areas of process, product, farm, environment, and people.
- Provide selective cover for the team members as required
About You:
To succeed in this Agriculture Biodiversity and Sustainability Assistant role you will need to demonstrate:
- Good agricultural knowledge but willingness to learn with an open mind just as important, ideally with experience in biodiversity and sustainability skills that can be applied to scalable poultry production
- Agriculture degree (or similar) but not essential as experience and past delivery will supersede
- Proven experience of working in a high performing team – a strong team player
- A commercial and business orientated approach that will have been evidenced by leading or contributing to substantial performance improvement in complex, multi-site businesses
- Interpersonal skills to be able to develop effective relationships at all levels of the organisation including farm level
- A logical & well organised individual, delivers on time
- Strong commercial acumen, ability to communicate complex debate clearly and concisely
- Results focused, able to deliver challenging objectives
- Ability to manage detail and identify strategic goals
- Ownership and passion to drive sustainable deliverables aligned to the wider production process
The role will be a hybrid position. Involving regular visits to our farms and suppliers as well our offices in Birmingham. Flexibility will be needed as well as a full UK Driving License and own transport.
In return for your hard work and dedication 2 Sisters Food Group are offering an excellent starting salary alongside a competitive package and the opportunity to influence a market leader during a time of real growth.
If you feel you have the skills and experienced needed to excel in this role then apply today to find out more.
The interview will process will consist of a call from our recruitment team, followed by an online interview and a formal meeting on site for successful applicants.
At 2 Sisters are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and commit to fairness and equality for all employees and applicants. This includes age, disability, neurodiversity, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.
Job Type: Part-time
Part-time hours: 21 per week
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Free or subsidised travel
- Free parking
- On-site parking
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Birmingham: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Birmingham
Reference ID: JO-2307-6054
