Product & Procurement Specialist – Moist and Liquids

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Product & Procurement Specialist

Location: UK Hybrid (with travel to Peterborough and Sherburn in Elmet)

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 ofThe 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.

About The Company

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.

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