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Senior Farms Engagement Manager

The UK Agri-Tech Centre • Full-time • Remote (Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) • £58,000 - £70,000 / year • 9h ago

Senior Farms Engagement Manager

Application Deadline: 31 May 2026

Department: Engagement

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: Northern Hub

Reporting To: Head of Agri Value Chain Engagement

Compensation: £58,000 - £70,000 / year

Description

Job purpose

· This role provides strategic leadership for primary producer. engagement and will develop credible producer. champions for technologies validated in commercial environments, to accelerate sector-wide uptake.
· This role aligns producer engagement activity with Programme milestones, commercialisation pathways, and impact metrics.
· The postholder will act as the senior advocate for primary producers within programme design—ensuring innovation remains practical, commercially viable, and deliverable in real-world systems.

This role is field-based, which means you’ll be travelling to client sites, partner sites and our locations as part of your day-to-day work. You may also work from your home address for a minority of the week or attend one of our sites from time to time. Our main locations are: Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cranfield, Newport (Midlands).

Key responsibilities

· With the Head of Agri Value Chain Engagement, develop and own the strategic framework for engaging primary producers to support programme delivery
· Ensure consistent delivery models through effective leadership of Engagement Managers.
· Create structured pathways for awareness → trial → validation → adoption → championing.
· Foster trusted two-way feedback loops between producers, innovators, and programme teams.
· Oversee the development of practical guidance, decision-support tools, and case studies
· Ensure consistent methodology for capturing ROI, productivity impact, and environmental outcomes
· In collaboration with relevant stakeholders develop standardised adoption frameworks that reduce financial and operational risk for producers.
· Identify systemic barriers to adoption that support technology development, working closely with the teams from the Test, Trial & Demonstration department as well as other customer facing teams.
· Provide leadership for UKATC across UK demonstration farms networks through direct management of the Farm Network Manager.
· Maintain standards for data integrity, learning capture, and impact reporting across the network.
· Develop and nurture a visible cohort of “Producer Champions” who influence peer adoption regionally and nationally.
· Support the delivery of coordinated engagement activities including demonstration events, peer learning groups, and digital engagement.
· Support engagement with advisory bodies and supply chain stakeholders to understand their requirements, working closely with the Agri Supply Chain team.
· Line manage Primary Producer Engagement Managers and Farm Network Manager
· Set clear KPIs, targets, and impact metrics aligned to and in support of programme objectives.
· Build capability across the team in stakeholder management, impact capture, and commercial awareness.
· Foster a collaborative, insight-driven culture across regional delivery teams.
· Ensure engagement metrics, adoption data, and case studies are integrated into reporting requirements.
· Accountable for budgetary spend associated with the Primary Producer engagement activity delivery.

What we are looking for

Essential Experience
· Extensive experience working directly with commercial primary producers across relevant sectors.
· Demonstrable leadership experience managing distributed teams.
· Strong understanding of farm business drivers: productivity, profitability, sustainability, risk management, and the drivers of adoption.
· Ability to translate innovation into practical, commercially viable on-farm application.
· Strong understanding of the drivers to adoption of Agri-tech
· Familiarity with impact measurement and ROI modelling.
· Established network within UK agriculture and agri-tech ecosystems.
· Credibility and authority with primary producers
· Commercial and operational acumen
· Team development and performance management
· Outcome-focused and impact-driven

Additional Information
Travel will be required.
UK driving licence is mandatory to have.

Why join us?

You will be part of a pioneering organisation driving innovation in agri-tech, whilst working in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment. There is opportunity to grow and develop within a newly established organisation, plus a range of benefits including:

33 days of annual leave with flexible public holidays allocation
Flexible working hours
4x salary life assurance
EAP with 24/7 helpline and expert advice service (legal, finance, health)
Pension salary sacrifice scheme availability
Fees for professional memberships
Ongoing training and development

If you are ready for a role that truly makes an impact - join us and be part of something meaningful. We’d love to hear from you!

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