Head of Trident Micro Nutri

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job title: Head of Trident Micro Nutri

Location: UK & Ireland

Contract & hours: Permanent, Monday - Friday 37.5 hours per week.

Package includes Salary from £65,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, and a matched pension contribution of up to 10%.

Additional Information

There will be out-of-hours requirements, including evenings and sometimes weekends, with significant travel involved. The role requires travel to and from trade shows, specialist technical forums, or seminars, often across Europe or further, which may involve early mornings, overnight travel, and hosting dinners or Industry events.
Travel frequency is typically about 5 or 6 nights away from home per month, but in some months (like September), it could be up to 2 weeks away.

About the role

As the Head of Trident Micro Nutri (TMN) at AB Agri, you will take overall ownership of the business's performance, with responsibility for P&L, budget setting, forecasting, and reforecasting in close partnership with finance.

You'll set the commercial course for TMN-maintaining important supplier alliances, identifying potential products to diversify the portfolio, and ensuring customers get a high quality experience with knowledgeable technical and commercial support.

This is a highly visible leadership role where you'll guide a small, specialist team, help deliver ambitious long term growth plans, and represent TMN at industry events, trade shows, and customer forums. You'll also work cross functionally with stakeholders in marketing and operations, including oversight of the distribution centre in Northern Ireland, to ensure safe, compliant, and effective delivery across the business.

What you'll be doing

• Own the P&L for Trident Micro Nutri (TMN), setting budgets and managing forecasting/reforecasting in close partnership with Finance.
• Build and protect strategic supplier partnerships, working closely with the NPD team horizon scanning the market to identify and secure new products that improve and future proof the TMN portfolio.
• Lead and coach the commercial team to execute clear sales plans, focus on the right customers and geographies, and deliver against agreed targets and growth ambitions.
• Drive an excellent customer experience-ensuring customers are supported, technically trained on the portfolio, and aligned to mutual commitments around volumes, forecasts, and delivery.
• Partner cross functionally with Marketing to shape and deliver effective campaigns and ensure strong return on investment.
• Provide leadership oversight for the Northern Ireland distribution centre operation, ensuring service, performance, and day to day coordination are effective.
• Act as an industry leading representative for TMN, attending trade shows, technical forums, and supplier/customer events-building credibility and relationships in the market.
• Champion safety, compliance, and feed safety standards, embedding a "Target Zero" mindset across the business.

What you'll need

• Proven commercial leadership experience, with full P&L accountability and a track record of delivering growth in a B2B environment.
• Strong capability in budget setting, forecasting, and reforecasting, with confidence partnering closely with Finance to manage performance against targets.
• Demonstrated experience building and maintaining strategic supplier partnerships, with the ability to horizon scan and identify new products to strengthen and future proof a portfolio.
• Deep knowledge and relationships within the Compound, Blend, and premix sectors within UK agriculture.
• A customer first mindset with experience managing senior, corporate stakeholder relationships and influencing buying decisions through credibility and value led conversations.
• Ruminant rationing and technical knowledge of how performance products are utilised both in a manufacturing and on farm capacity.
• The ability to lead, coach and performance manage a commercial team to execute clear sales plans and deliver agreed budgets and forecasts.
• Experience working cross functionally with Marketing and other internal stakeholders to plan and evaluate campaigns and improve return on investment.
• Operational awareness and people leadership skills, with the ability to oversee office based teams and collaborate effectively with a distribution operation (including an off site distribution centre).
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including confidence representing the business at trade shows, technical forums, and customer events.
• A strong commitment to health & safety, feed safety, and compliance, with a proactive approach aligned to a Target Zero mindset.
• Willingness and ability to travel regularly, including overnight stays and occasional out of hours commitments to support customer, supplier, and industry engagement.

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 of The 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

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.

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.