Overview
Dairy Consultant- Kite – Cumbria
Role: Dairy Farm Consultant
Location: Cumbria, North of England & Southwest Scotland
Salary: £50,000 – £65,000+ depending on experience, plus bonus, company car and competitive benefits
Are you interested in helping dairy farmers improve performance and profitability?
Whether you’re already working as a Dairy Consultant or you’ve built experience in nutrition, farm business management, genetics, milk production or another dairy-focused advisory role, we’d like to hear from you.
Kite Consulting is one of the UK’s well-known dairy consultancy businesses. We work alongside progressive dairy farmers, helping them make informed decisions that lead to better technical performance, better financial results and sustainable long-term growth.
We’re looking for an individual who likes forming relationships, addressing problems, and contributing to positive outcomes on the farm. This position could suit an experienced consultant interested in a fresh professional opportunity, as well as someone with a deep dairy background who wants to move into consulting.
What you’ll be doing
- Working directly with dairy farming businesses to identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
- Providing practical advice and support across dairy performance, business management and farm profitability.
- Using data and on-farm insights to help customers make informed decisions.
- Managing a portfolio of clients and building trusted long-term relationships.
- Supporting the growth of the business by identifying opportunities to add value for customers.
What we’re looking for
We’re more interested in the right person than a specific career path. You may have experience in:
- Dairy consultancy.
- Dairy nutrition.
- Farm business management.
- Milk production or herd management.
- Genetics, breeding or performance recording.
- Agricultural advisory or technical field-based roles.
You’ll also bring:
- A solid understanding of UK dairy farming.
- Good commercial awareness and relationship-building skills.
- Experience working directly with farmers and industry stakeholders.
- The ability to analyse information and turn it into practical recommendations.
- An interest in developing yourself and growing your consultancy career.
Why join Kite?
- Work with some of the UK’s most progressive dairy businesses.
- Join a highly respected consultancy with a well-known reputation across the industry.
- Access ongoing training, development and mentoring from experienced consultants.
- Manage your customer portfolio in a way that fits your preferred style and day-to-day workflow.
- Attractive pay, bonus, and benefits package, with employer pension contributions matched up to 10%.
Not got a CV ready? That’s fine. If you’d like an informal conversation about the role and your background, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
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About the Company
The quality of our people makes us unique
Kite Consulting provide business services to the entire food supply chain from farmer to retailer. We are recognised as one of the UK’s leading dairy consultancy companies, we are proud of our knowledge-base and relationships we form with our customers through practical imaginative advice focused on delivering excellence building success through the success of our customers.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division 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. 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 building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
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.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions, and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
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