Senior Consultant

As an FAI Senior Consultant, you will bring strong scientific and technical knowledge of the production, sustainability and welfare aspects within commercial farmed animal supply chains to the team. You will have worked with or in livestock supply chains for over five years. You will have experience of working with farmers and meat suppliers and/or food businesses as well as external stakeholders. You will have either existing project and client management expertise or a drive to develop these skills. You should be able to clearly communicate technical and practical aspects related to farmed animal production, in line with relevant animal welfare policies, legislation and scientific literature. We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with strong technical expertise in either dairy or pork.

The Senior Consultant will join the expanding team at FAI, this role is a 12-month maternity cover position, with scope for full time employment for the right candidate.

• Working with Senior Client Account Managers and Client Account Managers to deliver consultancy services including technical expertise across FAI’s client programmes this includes but is not limited to: desk-based research, preparation and delivery of technical material, reports (including reports based on data from our client supply chains), presentations, standards development and case studies.
• Participation in client, supply chain and, where applicable, farmer or other stakeholder meetings
• Responsibility for the planning, implementation, delivery and management of client projects
• Identify new business opportunities to deliver growth as part of wider FAI team

1) Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Degree level qualification in Agriculture or similar discipline
• At least 5 years’ experience of working with livestock supply chains and/or agri- food businesses.
• Experience in building stakeholder relations and working collaboratively with team members and partners to understand and deliver value to clients
• Excellent computer skills

Desirable

• Skills in project management, including proposal writing, project planning, budgeting and monitoring
• Specialist technical knowledge in dairy or pork

2) Personal attributes/characteristics

• Able to deliver high quality work that aligns with FAI’s mission and business objectives
• Highly self-motivated and autonomous with effective time management abilities
• ‘Can do’ attitude with a proactive approach to solving problems and a drive to get things done
• Adaptability and flexibility
• Excellent organisational skills and able to deliver quality work on time for multiple, simultaneous projects
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to build and develop relationships at all levels
• Excellent communicator with strong verbal and written communication skills
• Comfortable with working remotely and with colleagues in a variety of international locations

• 33 days annual leave inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata for part time)
• Additional holiday awarded for long service
• Holiday purchase scheme (up to one week per year)
• Contributory auto-enrolment pension scheme
• Private health insurance scheme
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Generous Company sick pay scheme (12 weeks full pay, 12 weeks half pay, after successful completion of probation)
• Enhanced Maternity and Adoption Pay (full pay for 18 weeks, after 26 weeks service by the qualifying week)
• Enhanced Paternity Pay, full pay for 2 weeks (after 26 weeks service by the qualifying week)

Interested? We would love to hear from you! This recruitment has a deadline so please don't wait to apply. The deadline for submiting your application is Friday 12th of September 2025. All interviews will take place online using Teams. We are anticipating that first round interviews will take place week commencing the 15th of September. Second round interviews will be held week commencing the 22nd of September.