Pigmeat and Poultry Executive

Do you have an interest in Irish Food, Drink and Horticulture?

Are you looking to make a difference?

Do you enjoy taking responsibility and like working in a small team?

Do you have the relevant experience?

Then you've come to the right place.

  Pigmeat and Poultry Executive

Dublin

Reports To: Senior Manager, Meat & Livestock

Grade: 5

The salary scale for this role is €50,342 - €69,069

New Entrants to the Public Sector commence on the first point of the Scale 

Purpose

Bord Bia has a vision that customers around the globe recognise that Irish food and drink is world-class; that it is high quality, distinctive, and made by a diverse range of creative producers from a unique and fortuitous island location.

Our purpose is to bring Ireland’s outstanding food, drink and horticulture to the world, thus enabling growth and sustainability of producers.

In this role, you will champion Bord Bia’s relationship with our client companies and other sector stakeholders. Together with colleagues, to help clients access appropriate supports and services. To develop and enhance Bord Bia’s knowledge of relevant trends and issues to inform sector and client strategies for growth.

What you’ll do

1. Provide overall client and project support to the Meat & Livestock team.

2. Develop strong working relationships with client base as per segmentation, prioritising agreed partner and club plus companies through proactive engagement and liaison with clients, through various means; virtual and/or onsite meetings, emails and updates to CRM.

3. Develop a deep understanding of the client business, including identifying key challenges and opportunities facing the business; engaging with assigned clients through formal, regular check-ins; capture and share key actions and outputs with appropriate colleagues and deliver relevant supports by ensuring clear and tight client informed briefs and managing the process through to delivery.

4. Continuously build and maintain relationships with key industry stakeholders through regular consultation, attend and engage at relevant industry events and meetings, and provide relevant insights.

5. Use the One Bord Bia client plan template and the client engagement model to co-create annual plans with assigned partner clients and a select number of Club Plus clients, including identifying and coordinating the delivery of the appropriate services available to them from across Bord Bia.

6. Support the Meat & Livestock and events teams to ensure effective and commercially focused participation at trade fairs for clients through appropriate recruitment, coordinating preshow supports such as workshops and 1:1 supports, coordinating trade engagement with overseas offices and post-show follow up.

7. Produce high calibre sector commentary for trade media articles, and internal and external briefings through well researched and presented documentation. Gather and disseminate insight on the Pigmeat and Poultry sectors from a client and market perspective with particular focus on future developments regarding the production and trading environment.

8. Contribute to the development of plans for primary Pigmeat and Poultry during the One Bord Bia annual planning process by proactive cross department engagement and a clear, concise understanding of client and market needs.

9. Support the Meat & Livestock and Insights team deliver insight and market intelligence projects by ensuring clear briefs, proactive engagement to the project end, client engagement as needed and ensuring the team is consulted.

10. Promote understanding of relevant Bord Bia supports, and encourage participation, such as My Bord Bia, Talent Academy, grants.

11. Manage assigned budgets in accordance with One Bord Bia procedures.

12. Embed adherence to the One Bord Bia Operating Model

About You

Essential Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

Knowledge:

• A minimum 3+ years’ experience in a related field

• Irish food and drink industry, and its markets

• Primary agriculture sector, and its main stakeholders

• Bord Bia’s role and responsibilities

• Commercial functioning of food businesses

Skills & Capabilities:

• Digital first mindset

• Comfortable with an agile culture focused on continuous improvement

• Client Relationship management

• Presentation development and delivery

• Analytical writing skills

• Project Management 

Desirable Knowledge, Skills & Capabilities

Knowledge:

• Food and drink industry experience

• Route to market. 

Skills & Capabilities:

• Data analysis. 

Closing Date/Time: Monday, 3 February 2025 @ 2:00pm (GMT/UTC)

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Bord Bía is an Equal Opportunities Employer: We want to see a society where everyone is equal. We know our foundation must be an equitable workplace that recognises the dignity and worth of everyone and gives all our employees the freedom and opportunity to fulfil their potential: we want for you to be able to bring your whole self to work, so you can be the best you can be and live your purpose whilst developing your career with us. Our talented and diverse workforce also reflects the diversity of our clients, customers and markets by utilising their range of skills, knowledge and experience. Harnessing the wide range of perspectives this diversity brings, promotes innovation and helps make us more creative and competitive.

Bord Bia is committed to ensuring that all recruitment candidates have complete and equitable access as can reasonably be provided. If you require any support or accommodation as part of the recruitment process, please contact us directly at humanresources@bordbia.ie