Area Manager - Broilers

The Vacancy

🐔 Area Manager - GB Broilers 🌾

📍 Location: Ashbourne
🏢 Department: Agriculture - GB Broilers
👨💼 Reporting to: Regional Broiler Manager

🚀 Join Our Team as an Area Manager

Are you passionate about broiler production, building strong relationships, and driving farm performance?

We're looking for an experienced and motivated Area Manager to support and develop a network of contract broiler growing farms across Great Britain. This is a fantastic opportunity to combine your industry expertise with your people skills to make a real impact on farm performance, animal welfare, and grower engagement.

🌟 About the Role

As an Area Manager, you'll work closely with our contract growers to build trusted partnerships, provide expert support, and drive continuous improvement across the farms within your area.

You'll be a visible and approachable leader, helping growers achieve their goals while ensuring compliance with the highest welfare, biosecurity, and production standards.

Key Responsibilities

🤝 Grower Relationships & Engagement

🔹 Build strong, professional relationships with contract growers
🔹 Understand growers' challenges, ambitions, and business needs
🔹 Foster a positive and collaborative partnership approach
🔹 Manage difficult conversations confidently and constructively
🔹 Support growers in achieving outstanding results

📈 Driving Farm Performance

🔹 Monitor flock and farm performance against agreed targets
🔹 Identify opportunities for improvement and implement practical solutions
🔹 Develop and support farm improvement plans
🔹 Promote best practice and continuous learning

🐥 Welfare, Compliance & Standards

🔹 Ensure farms meet welfare, biosecurity, and company requirements
🔹 Conduct regular farm visits and audits
🔹 Maintain accurate records and documentation
🔹 Proactively address risks and performance concerns

👥 Teamwork & Collaboration

🔹 Work closely with growers and internal stakeholders
🔹 Encourage knowledge sharing and best practice adoption
🔹 Support cross-functional teamwork to resolve challenges and achieve business objectives

💬 Communication & Problem Solving

🔹 Deliver clear and professional communication
🔹 Build trust through listening and understanding different perspectives
🔹 Take a practical and solutions-focused approach to challenges
🔹 Influence and support others to achieve positive outcomes

🎯 What We're Looking For

Essential Skills & Experience

✔️ Extensive practical experience in broiler growing
✔️ Strong industry knowledge and understanding of broiler production
✔️ Excellent relationship-building skills
✔️ Confident communicator with experience handling challenging situations
✔️ Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
✔️ Ability to influence and positively challenge others
✔️ Professional, accountable, and results-driven approach
✔️ Full UK Driving Licence 🚗
✔️ Willingness to travel extensively across Great Britain, including overnight stays 🌍

🎓 Qualifications

✔️ Good standard of education

🏆 What Success Looks Like

🔹 Excellent working relationships with contract growers
🔹 High standards of welfare, biosecurity, and compliance
🔹 Strong collaboration across teams
🔹 Effective resolution of issues and delivery on commitments
🔹 Consistent demonstration of company values

Our Values

At Pilgrim's, our values are at the heart of everything we do:

🔹 Availability - Open, responsive, and ready for new challenges
🔹 Humility - Respecting and valuing the views of others
🔹 Discipline - Delivering on commitments and maintaining high standards
🔹 Sincerity - Acting with honesty, integrity, and respect
🔹 Simplicity - Focusing on what matters most
🔹 Ownership - Taking responsibility and driving results
🔹 Determination - Working together to achieve success

🌟 Why Join Us?

This is an opportunity to play a vital role in supporting our growers, improving farm performance, and contributing to the success of one of the UK's leading food businesses.

Ready for your next challenge? Apply today and help shape the future of GB Broiler production! 🐔🌾🚜

Our Story

Pilgrim's Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim's Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim's Europe team are based in our Pilgrim's UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim's Food Masters and Pilgrim's Shared Services businesses.

Rewards & Benefits

Competitive Salary

Competitive Holiday Entitlement

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Policies

Learning and Development Opportunities

Life Assurance