Area Coordinator

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title
:
Area Coordinator

Location
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Cumbria, North West England, UK

Contract
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Permanent, Monday to Friday - Flexibility is essential, with early morning starts and occasional late finishes

Salary: £25,371.91 + Van + Fuel Card / Allowance

Are you interested in agriculture and collecting information to help dairy farmers with their herd management?

Would you like to have a more flexible work pattern?

If the answer to the above is YES – then this could be the role for you!

The Area Coordinator will be responsible for the delivery of a full milk recording service.

This involves regular visits to farms within the above area, collecting event data about individual cows and updating the NMR database.

It can also involve taking milk samples from each cow as they are milked as and when required. The role will involve the robot shuttle hire service.

• Home based but covering a wide area of farms, which could involve extensive driving.
• Responsible for data collection and entry into a custom-built software package
• Coordinate the collection of milk samples from individual cows on farms.
• Organise and train self-employed samplers to take milk samples.
• Transport sample boxes/shuttles
• Complete NMR robot shuttle recording
• Ensure an excellent standard of data quality.

• Time management skills
• Self-motivated
• Ability to work effectively within a team and add value.
• Great attention to detail ensuring accuracy in work produced.
• Fully PC literate
• Milk recording and/or practical dairy farming experience - desirable

• A valid UK Driving Licence is required.
• Able to work early mornings when required.

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.

Decoding milk data, building robust insights.

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.

• annual salary reviews and incentive bonus
• ongoing career development
• enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits

We’re National Milk Records (NMR) a part of the AB Agri community committed to investing in an innovative range of milk quality, herd health and genomic testing services, generating data and building robust insights that empower farmers to make informed decisions on cow productivity.

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.