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Career Developing Opportunity- Crop Consultant (Berkshire)

Employer
De Lacy Executive Recruitment
Location
Berkshire
Salary
Competitive salary and benefits package to include
Closing date
28 Aug 2022

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Job Details

Are you looking for the opportunity to develop your skillset in precision sustainable farming with a leading crop production business? This is your opportunity to support the future of British farming, through helping farmers achieve sustainable crop growth for the future.

Perhaps you're looking for a better work-life balance? With the hybrid working arrangements available in this role, your time will be split between home/office/on farm, one day you could be on farm demonstrating your excellent customer service skills and the next managing, chasing leads and managing your time from home. Perhaps you're looking for the opportunity to increase your knowledge of the latest arable farming technologies? With this role you will be exposed to the latest in GPS technology and GIS mapping, receiving dedicated training to ensure you provide the best service to customers.

What your "day to day" will look like:

  • Providing your technical expertise to your farming clients, collecting information on farm in order to plan bespoke crop management plans.
  • Answering enquiries from both the sales team
  • Create and troubleshoot variable rate GPS fertiliser spreading files
  • Use your IT skills to maintain both customer database and company CRM, recording and analysiing customer data.

What you will need:

  • A strong acumen for customer service
  • Excellent relationship building skills, you will be confident, personable and have an affinity with the farming community.
  • A good understanding of Microsoft Office packages
  • High attention to detail, you will take pride in your work
  • Driven and goal oriented with strong decision making skills, you will have a great deal of autonomy and need to effectively manage your diary and workload.
  • A relevant degree at BSc or above would be advantageous but is not essential. You will need a strong practical arable understanding.

What you can expect:

The opportunity for hybrid working, competitive salary and benefits package to include life assurance and employee assistance programmes available to you and your family

Company

De Lacy Executive acquisition increases recruitment resources

De Lacy Executive is pleased to announce that the agri-business recruitment consultancy has been acquired by AgCareers.com Canada, part of the Farms.com group. Farms.com is a supplier of innovative technology based information products, services and publications for the global agriculture and food industry. Farms.com has offices in Canada, USA, Australia and India and also owns and operates a 2,000 acre farm in Canada. A large number of leading organizations in the international agriculture and food industries are amongst its clients.

Graham Dyer, President of Farms.com believes "De Lacy Executive has a unique search and selection recruitment service based upon integrity and profound industry knowledge. We are thrilled to add this excellent team to our group. It will be 'business as usual' for this professional team. We will add to the De Lacy portfolio of services and spread the model to other sectors of UK land based business and to other parts of the world, benefitting our clientele and providing additional support and guidance for jobseekers. Combined with our AgCareers.com and CareersInFood.com job boards, we have an increasingly international offering in the agriculture and food industries."

The sale took effect on June 1st 2016. Stuart Goodinson is the Managing Director. John Davies, who founded De Lacy, will remain working closely with the company as a consultant to the business. Stuart says; "I believe the acquisition by AgCareers.com Canada provides additional products and services for the benefit of our clients and candidates - plus growth opportunities for us, both in the UK and in international markets. This change will increase our resource pool and search capability to ensure an even greater selection of top quality candidates for our recruitment clients."

 

De Lacy Executive is the principal recruitment specialist in the Agricultural and Land Based Business sector operating in the UK and Internationally with regional, national and global clients. We have been awarded Preferred Supplier List status with a number of major organisations.

The company was formed in 2000 and our extensive industry knowledge enables us to successfully assist our clients with vacancies in all disciplines from sales and marketing to technical and operations and at all levels from graduate trainees to chief executives. Our team of nine includes 8 who are the offspring of farmers and 6 who are agricultural graduates. Our agricultural credential are second to none.

We offer information and frank and honest advice to clients and job seekers. Career guidance is a key part of our work with candidates. Our service is free to candidates.

The Key Points to Our Business

Consultancy - We act in a consultancy capacity, adding value by devising a recruitment plan relevant to each client and each vacancy and then proactively searching and selecting the best candidates for clients whilst offering career advice to candidates.

Proactive searching for candidates - We don't wait to see if we receive applications. We use our own database and others, search websites, "head hunt" plus advertise on the most effective job boards to build our contacts and boost applicant numbers.

Our vacancies extend from graduate trainee to managing director - from sales through to technical, marketing, operations and production to R & D management.

Our specialism extends from the agricultural supply trade (arable, livestock, machinery and equipment etc) to farm management, primary food and fresh produce, horticulture, equestrian, environment, renewable energy and a diverse range of Rural and Land-based Business vacancies.

Integrity and Confidentiality - De Lacy Executive is approved as a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which oversees the UK's recruitment industry (REC Membership Number: 00082047) and is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under the Data Protection Act.

Commitment - We are committed to the industry and try to give something back through sponsorship of events and scholarships.

Ambassadors - We act in a professional manner recognising that we act on behalf of our clients.

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