Overview
Commercial Nutritionist – Pet – United Kingdom
Job Title: Commercial Pet Nutritionist
Location: United Kingdom – Home based
Contract: Full time, Permanent
Working Days & Hours: – Monday – Friday – 37.5 hours per week
Package includes -Competitive Salary, including discretionary performance related bonus, Car Allowance, plus pension contributions matched up to 10%, access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing, and everyday life.
About the role:
As a Commercial Nutritionist based in the UK, you will play a key role in managing and growing a diverse portfolio of pet food customers, ranging from large multinationals to innovative startups.
You will combine account management with nutritional and technical skills to support customers in developing nutritionally complete and complimentary pet food products in a variety of different formats such as dry, wet, raw etc.
Your responsibilities will include designing premixes and supplements, pricing, pet food formulation, regulatory guidance, and problem-solving to ensure customer satisfaction and business growth.
We are seeking an experienced professional with an extensive background in pet nutrition and pet food manufacturing, effective communication skills, and a collaborative mindset. The role is home-based with regular travel across the UK to visit customers, attend meetings, and participate in industry events.
What you’ll be doing
- Manage a portfolio of pet food industry accounts across the UK, providing expert commercial and nutritional support to meet customer needs and grow business.
- Collaborate with customers to develop tailored premixes and pet food solutions, including complete diets and complementary products for a variety of companion animals.
- Support new business development by responding to inquiries, qualifying prospects, and building strong and trusted relationships with pet food companies.
- Ensure all nutritional solutions comply with relevant pet food regulations and assist customers with regulatory compliance, including labelling requirements.
- Monitor market trends, competitor activity, and customer feedback to inform and develop winning commercial strategies and new product development.
What we’re looking for
- Solid understanding of pet nutrition and pet food manufacturing processes, including formulation of premixes (and supplements) for various pet food formats (dry, wet, freeze-dried, raw, etc).
- Established network and relationships within the UK pet food sector, including manufacturers, brands, private label producers, and start-ups.
- Significant commercial sales experience within the pet food industry, 3+ years, with a strong track record of managing and growing customer accounts.
- Technical knowledge of pet food regulations and compliance requirements, with the ability to advise customers on product development and labelling.
- Ability to manage a diverse portfolio of accounts, balancing account management with new business development and inquiry qualification.
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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
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.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
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
Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.
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.
Application Notes
We 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 sales
AB 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.
