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Agriculture Specialist
£36,000 - £40,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 6A)
Hybrid working with around 2 days a week in our Manchester head office, as well as extensive travel across the UK
12-month fixed-term contract

We’re looking for a motivated Agricultural Specialist to join our Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team at Co-op.

In this role, you’ll be specifically managing our beef, lamb, and dairy categories. It’ll be up to you to help us to deliver our wider sustainability and climate change targets, for which beef, lamb, and dairy have an important role to play. We’ll look to you to build strong relationships with the farmers that we partner with, traveling across the UK to meet them and represent Co-op at a range of meetings and events.

It’s a really exciting role where you’ll get to connect with a huge range of internal colleagues as we as farmers, and it’s a great opportunity for you to gain valuable industry exposure.

What you’ll do

• Work collaboratively with our farming supply chain, engaging with farmers across our beef, lamb, and dairy categories
• Make sure that Co-op are meeting standards against health, welfare and environment
• Organise and facilitate meetings with farmers, and travel regularly to meet in person and build meaningful relationships
• Help to deliver Co-op’s sustainability strategies for beef, lamb and dairy, working on a range of projects and collaborating with the wider Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team as well as farmers and industry partners
• Manage a range of queries from customers and members relating to farming, and provide updates around Co-op’s sustainability and welfare initiatives

This role would suit people who have

• A UK driving license
• Experience of working in an agricultural supply chain, and of working with farmers
• Great communication and networking skills with the ability to build meaningful relationships with colleagues and external partners
• A genuine passion for agriculture

Why Co-op?

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn
• YuLife app – rewarding you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.
If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early.