Crop Production Technical Advisor - Topcliffe

We are looking for a Crop Production Technical Advisor to join the Frontier team, based in the Yorkshire to Scottish Borders region, on a permanent, full-time basis. This role will involve working from home but with an expectation to travel to sites across the region when required.

You will provide high quality technical information in relation to all combinable crops.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Company Car
• Private Health Insurance
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase 5 more days
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers

About You

• Proven commercial awareness
• Able to communicate with impact at every level
• Excellent attention to detail and problem-solving ability
• Excellent organisational skills, including prioritising workloads, meeting deadlines and managing a varied workload in a busy environment
• Able to develop effective and supportive relationships with internal commercial teams
• Effective presentation skills, to both internal and external customers
• Able to hit deadlines in a busy environment
• Proven experience of working within a technical role in an agricultural environment
• Previous field agronomy and crop nutrition/protection experience is desirable
• Registered BASIS qualification
• Self-motivated and tenacious
• Flexible approach to work and managing changing priorities
• An effective team player

Your Role

As a Crop Production Technical Advisor your role will involve:

• Providing regular in-season technical bulletins for all combinable crops within agreed time frames
• Providing regional commercial teams with technical support across all combinable crops
• Taking the lead from our Combinable Crop Production Specialist on strategy and delivery of required knowledge exchange across all combinable crops
• Supporting a holistic approach to crop growing protocols, delivering a “captures all” strategy, avoiding silo mentality of inputs capable of generating margin
• Providing in-season summaries and updates on trials, including short videos/blogs
• Supporting the uptake of strategic technical direction on product pipelines and legislative amendments to commercial teams
• Working closely with our Sustainable Crop Production teams to understand environmental & stewardship requirements on farm
• Working collaboratively with all departments of Frontier’s in-house Technical team
• Providing written PR opportunities on all combinable crops for the Frontier website, blogs and external publications
• Working closely with Regional Sales Leaders, being the key point of contact and providing technical support and advice to their teams
• Supporting the delivery of trial protocols for all combinable crops within agreed frameworks
• A strong understanding of all departments delivering Frontier’s Sustainable Crop Production programme, supporting the delivery of key messaging to the commercial teams
• Responsibility for sending all relevant internal and external documents for the agronomy library to technical support to upload
• Supporting the production and delivery of technical strategy information to agronomy teams
• Processing and summarising large data sets to support technical and commercial strategy
• Ensuring technical content by crop is legal and compliant for our commercial teams
• Providing support and advice on all product revocations
• Providing back up support to the Frontier Hotline on combinable crops

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion.

With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Award winning for our commitment to people, we have been recognised by Great Place to Work institute since 2012 and we are proud to be ranked by them in the top 30 UK best large places to work.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values Integrity, Customer focus and Expertise or ‘ICE’. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.