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Head of Growing

Head of Growing

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Posted 13 days ago, valid for a month

Hereford, Herefordshire HR2 9NH, England

£45,000 - £54,000 per annum

Full Time

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Sonic Summary

The Head of GrowingHerefordshire position offers an exciting opportunity with one of the UK's top five soft fruit producers, managing a 35-hectare site with up to 450 workers.
Candidates should have significant commercial growing experience, particularly in soft fruit or protected cropping, along with expertise in IPM and crop planning.
The role involves crop planning, forecasting, and fostering a continuous improvement culture among the team.
People management skills are essential, as the position requires developing high-performing teams and sharing knowledge with enthusiastic growers.
The salary for this senior-level role is competitive, and candidates should have several years of relevant experience to qualify.

Head of GrowingHerefordshire

Stuck? Frustrated? Know you're better than this?

Know your capable of managing more people, working on a bigger site but just don't have the opportunity to do it? This is your chance.

You'll work with one of the UKs top 5 soft fruit producer, and with 4 sites across the UK - it's the perfect opportunity to develop your career.

And you'll get to see your hard work on the supermarket shelves - definite bragging rights at family barbeques! What you'll be doing

You'll be managing the production of soft fruit across this 35 Hectare site, both outdoors and in polytunnels. They have up to 450 workers on this site at peak, so there's not doubt you'll be busy.

In terms of the day to day, you'll be crop planning, forecasting, managing the husbandry and pest management programmes.

You'll get to pass on your growing expertise to a team of enthusiastic growers and play a part in developing their careers too.

They want to hear your opinion. They want you to instil a continuous improvement culture across the site and the team and encourage people to come up with ideas. You will implement and get to watch the site go from strength to strength.

What you'll needCommercial growing experience.

You'll be coming in at a senior level, so you need to know what you're doing.

Soft fruit experience would be great - but experience in protected cropping will prove useful in any capacity.

You'll know your stuff when it comes to IPM, crop planning and all things crops.

People management will be second nature, you'll thrive on passing your knowledge on and developing high performing teams.

What's next? For an informal chat, please call me, Sarah on , email or message me on LinkedIn. Don't worry if your CV isn't up to date, just send what you have already, and we can sort the rest later.

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