Animal Nutritionist

The Opportunity

You will contribute to the development and optimisation of poultry feed formulations, balancing nutritional requirements, ingredient availability, product quality, feed safety, and cost efficiency.

Working collaboratively with colleagues across technical, quality, procurement, production, and commercial functions, you will help ensure feed formulations meet relevant specifications and deliver consistent results.

From evaluating raw materials and analysing nutritional data to investigating performance issues and supporting product improvements, your work will contribute to effective and reliable feed solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Nutrition and Feed Formulation

• Develop, review, and optimise poultry feed formulations to meet nutritional requirements, performance targets, and cost objectives.

• Analyse raw materials, ingredients, laboratory results, and finished product data.

• Maintain accurate formulation records, ingredient specifications, and nutritional databases.

• Investigate formulation discrepancies, ingredient variability, and feed performance concerns.

Quality, Safety and Compliance

• Support compliance with relevant feed safety standards, quality systems, and regulatory requirements.

• Review nutritional specifications, feed additive inclusion levels, product information, and technical documentation.

• Identify and escalate quality concerns, formulation errors, and potential feed safety risks.

• Contribute to product traceability, quality assurance, and consistent manufacturing outcomes.

Technical Support and Continuous Improvement

• Collaborate with technical, operational, procurement, and commercial teams to address nutritional and product-related challenges.

• Support product development, nutritional trials, research activities, and formulation improvements.

• Identify opportunities to improve ingredient utilisation, feed efficiency, formulation accuracy, and cost effectiveness.

• Communicate technical findings and recommendations clearly to relevant stakeholders.

Professional Development

• Maintain knowledge of developments in poultry nutrition, feed technology, nutritional science, and industry best practice.

• Participate in training, research, trials, and continuous improvement initiatives.

About You

You will be a detail-oriented and analytical professional who combines sound nutritional knowledge with a practical and commercially aware approach.

Ideally, you will have:

• A relevant qualification in Animal Nutrition, Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agricultural Science, or a related discipline.

• Knowledge of poultry nutrition, monogastric physiology, feed formulation, and ingredient characteristics.

• An understanding of feed safety, quality assurance, nutritional specifications, and applicable regulatory requirements.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into practical recommendations.

• Confidence using spreadsheets, formulation software, databases, or other technical systems.

• Excellent organisational, communication, and collaboration skills.

• A proactive attitude, strong attention to detail, and a commitment to continuous improvement.

Experience in commercial feed formulation, premix development, feed manufacturing, or poultry nutrition would be advantageous.

What's on Offer?

• The opportunity to contribute to practical nutritional solutions and product development.

• A varied technical role combining scientific analysis and commercial application.

• Collaboration with colleagues across multiple business functions.

• Opportunities to develop specialist knowledge and broaden your technical expertise.

• The chance to contribute to continuous improvement within the animal nutrition sector.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

If you have a passion for poultry nutrition and enjoy solving technical challenges, we would love to hear from you.

Apply with your CV and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience, technical strengths, and interest in animal nutrition.