AB Agri
Job title:
R&D Scientist
Company:
AB Agri
Job description
The Role & Key ResponsibilitiesJob Title: R&D ScientistLocation: Fraga – SpainContract: Fixed Term 9 months.-40 hours per weekPackage includes: Salary from €50,000, plus a benefits package designed to support your wellbeing and reward your impact, including discretionary performance related bonus, mobility healthcare benefits and retirement savings.Join AB Neo in an exciting role at the heart of our vibrant R&D team, developing advancements in animal nutrition and innovation. Based at our up-to-date innovation farm, you’ll manage the process of designing, executing, analysing, and interpreting pioneering research trials, while coordinating impactful external collaborations with universities.Initially focusing primarily on pig nutrition, this role offers a great opportunity to expand your skills across other farm animal species as our business grows. Collaborate with our team of scientists and nutritionists, advancing R&D excellence and making meaningful contributions to the industry’s future.Some key responsibilities will include
- Collaborate and manage the research programme within AB Neo
- Facilitate rapid progress of internal and external R&D projects through project management or coordination of activities
- Generate trial protocols, data recording, data extraction and transformation, statistical analysis, reporting and presentation of results
- Deliver collaborative research across AB Neo and with universities to support maintaining our market position of high-quality research in neonate nutrition
- Maintain an understanding of market, customer developments across the ABNeo business.
- This is a great opportunity for someone motivated by animal nutrition research, keen to collaborate with experts, and interested in contributing to innovative solutions that positively impact the agricultural industry.
Skills and Experience
- A relevant scientific degree like PhD in relevant scientific or discipline.
- Experience conducting pig trials.
- Extensive background in experimental design, data handling and statistical analysis in animal
- science research to a standard suitable for publication in peer-reviewed scientific journals
- Advanced use of statistical software programmes, and Microsoft office
- Experience of working in animal science and diet formulation
About UsRewarding your passionWhen 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 usWe are AB Neo a specialist business bringing together the expertise of four successful companies with the aim of revolutionising nutrition for all neonates. Bring your talents to AB Neo and play your part in producing affordable, high quality and responsible food for the growing global population.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.Application NotesWe hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.Agencies and media salesAB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.Questions about this role?If you have any questions about this role or need help applying please contact Lourdes Villalba via .Supporting your applicationWe work with a number of external partners to ensure that our application process is as comfortable as possible, regardless of your circumstances or background.LocationR&D ScientistClosing Date:Not SpecifiedAll LocationsFraga All Locations is a required fieldJob FunctionSustainability / R&D / InnovationAdvertising Salary:Not SpecifiedTypeTemporary
Expected salary
Location
España
Job date
Wed, 25 Jun 2025 00:22:21 GMT
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