Graduate scheme AB Agri Ltd

Job description

Schemes we run:
Commercial Graduate Scheme
The Commercial Graduate Scheme with AB Agri provides a superb chance to gain essential business skills and invaluable hands-on experience with a true market leader, right across the company’s business activities. Placements span a number of our market-leading brands and cover a combination of Sales, Purchasing, Trading and Product Management, Marketing and Customer Support.

Nutrition Graduate Scheme
Our Nutrition Graduate Scheme lasts for up to 3 years, but the benefits will last you a lifetime. Our nutritionists play a key role in researching, developing, selling and advising across our market leading product range. This extends to feed materials, feed additives, pre-mixes and compound feed including specialist products such as baby pig feed.

During your scheme you will undertake a number of placements to provide you with a broad base of experience across AB Agri. As a result you will move across a number of locations.

Supply Chain Graduate Scheme
Our Supply Chain Graduate Scheme provides a superb chance to gain experience across our supply chain, from raw materials scheduling and inventory management to production and distribution of finished products to our customers. Your training will begin with a comprehensive induction to the business, our manufacturing process and the business issues that confront us.

Finance Graduate Scheme
Our Finance Graduate Scheme lasts for 3 years, but the benefits will last you a lifetime. During the 3 year scheme you will undertake a number of placements to provide you with a broad base of experience as well as a core accounting skill set. Two of your placements will be commercial, to equip you with the breadth of skills to operate as a commercial finance professional.

Person requirements

The People we need
As a highly commercial and respected business, we’re looking for graduates with the skills, initiative and personality to play an integral part in our continuing growth and success. Depending upon which scheme you are applying for, you will ideally have an academic background in agriculture, food, business, the sciences, engineering or manufacturing.

However we recognise the value of transferable skills and we’ll consider graduates from any discipline providing they are driven, passionate and can demonstrate a real desire to succeed within our business.

Although your educational background might not be directly linked to our industry sector, the competitive business world in which we operate means we do need certain essential attributes from all our trainees. As well as excellent communication skills and an ability to work on one’s own initiative and within busy teams, we’re looking for people with the dynamism, drive and determination to help safeguard our reputation and take the business from strength to strength.

Company information

AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods plc., operates at the heart of the agri food and drink industry with activities that stretch from ‘plough to plate’.

It supplies technology-based products and services to farmers, feed and food manufacturers, processors and retailers. It also buys grain from farmers and supplies crop inputs through its joint venture arable operation; Frontier.

Through a number of business divisions operating right across the supply chain, AB Agri manufactures high performance compound feeds, provides world leading analytical capability, nutritional advice, sustainable business solutions and poultry marketing services for customers. It helps food, drink and bioethanol companies internationally to reduce their environmental footprint by marketing their co-products as animal feed and also supplies premix, enzymes and other technical products to the livestock and pet industries. AB Agri’s proposition can influence profitability at every stage of the food supply chain.

The business directly employs over 2,000 people in the UK and overseas, and markets products and services through circa 20 businesses in 60 countries worldwide. Sustained investment, customer focus, the recruitment of talented people and innovation in nutrition have all been major factors in establishing AB Agri as a market leader in the sectors within which it operates.

ABF is an international agriculture, food, ingredients and retail business with 102,000 employees in 46 countries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange, ABF is a FTSE 100 company and the fifth largest food business in Europe.

As a highly commercial and respected business, AB Agri is looking for graduates with the skills, initiative and personality to play an integral part in our continuing growth and success. Positions with us suit graduates hungry for accountability and career development. From day one you’ll be treated as part of the team and rewarded with real responsibility.

Qualification and experience requirements

• Degree educated 2:2 and above
• Various disciplines
• Strong A levels

Accepted degree subjects

Any