The Role & Key Responsibilities
Job Title: Area Service Manager
Location: Cumbria, UK
Role / Shift: Permanent – Monday to Friday – 37 hours per week (Will be flexible)
Are you enthusiastic about the agricultural industry?
Skilled in developing customer relationships?
Perhaps you are looking for a flexible, home-based role with significant travel, visiting farms around the beautiful Cumbrian countryside?
If this is you, we want to hear from you!
We are seeking an enthusiastic and customer-focused Area Service Manager to develop customer relationships and service provision within a defined area. This home-based role requires travel and involves regular interaction with customers, ensuring they receive the highest quality service and support.
Key responsibilities: (not limited to)
1. Conduct regular customer service reviews based on customer segments.
2. Continuously improve customer touchpoints.
3. Build and maintain relationships with both new and existing customers.
4. Provide training and support to customers on our products and services.
5. Ensure efficient service delivery within the defined area, meeting performance standards.
6. Use Area Coordinators and self-employed milk recorders and samplers to provide services.
7. Work towards various KPIs to ensure high data quality Promote NMR and assist at local and national events, such as shows and farm walks.
8. Maintain comprehensive knowledge of NMR products and services and stay informed about the wider industry.
About you:
9. Effective relationship and management skills
10. A keen interest in agriculture and/or farming (desirable)
11. Ability to manage own time effectively, and able to work flexible hours is necessary.
12. Effective verbal and written communication skills
13. Previous account management experience (desirable)
14. Fully PC literate
15. Milk recording and sampling experience (desirable)
Additional Information:
16. Home-based role with flexible weekly hours to accommodate early morning starts, late evenings, and customer milking patterns.
17. The role requires significant driving; candidates will be located within the area and have a UK Full Valid Driving Licence
Skills & Experience
Not Specified
About The Company
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.
About us
We’re National Mil 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. 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.