Administration Supervisor - Frontier Agriculture Ltd. : Job Details

We are looking for a Grain Administration Supervisor to join the Frontier team, based at Witham St Hughs, on a permanent, full-time basis. We are open to hybrid options for this role, with the right candidate working 3 days on site and 2 days from home.

You will provide first hand support to the Grain Administration Manager, supervise the daily running of the Grain Admin team, promote Customer First both within the team and within the wider business and maintain audit and legal requirements ensuring Frontier continue to operate correctly.

The Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Opportunities for a mixture of home and site working (to be agreed with Line Manager)
• 25 days holiday per calendar year with option to purchase up to 5 more days (subject to meeting eligibility requirements)
• Dedicated Learning & Development team to support you and your career.
• Employee Assistance Program providing 24 hours support & advice in areas such as health and wellbeing for yourself, your family & friends (up to 5 people in total)
• Increased Maternity, Paternity & Adoption leave benefits for eligible employees.
• Life Assurance scheme and pension plan with employer contributions of up to 7%
• Up to two days paid volunteer leave per year (only applicable to permanent employees)
• The opportunity to join our employee network groups including LGBTQ+, Menopause wellbeing, Neurodiversity and Women’s network groups.
• Cycle to Work Scheme, employee retail discount scheme and free eye test vouchers.

About You

• An intuitive, natural leader
• Able to motivate and inspire teams to maximise collaboration through open communication, trust and creative thinking.
• Clear, demonstrable decision-making ability
• Able to develop effective and supportive relationships with customers and internal / external stakeholders.
• Demonstrative organisational and prioritisation skills
• Responsible, dependable and calm under pressure
• Able to employ authority, tact, and empathy appropriately.
• Possess a confident and professional manner with strong communication skills.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft applications

Your Role

As a Grain Administration Supervisor your role will involve:

• Managing and monitoring workloads within the team
• Managing the customer query resolution process
• Monitoring and reviewing month-end reports
• Researching, formulating, and planning team training needs for both established and newly recruited team members.
• All aspects of supervision including recruitment, holiday requests, sickness and attendance management, performance review and performance management

We encourage candidates to submit their applications as early as possible and not to wait until the published closing date as applications will be reviewed and interviews may be booked in before that date.

We reserve the right to remove this advert or close it to further applications at any point during the recruitment process.

About Us

Frontier is a successful and growing business. We are the largest crop production and grain marketing company in the UK, with over 1,000 employees and a turnover of more than £1.5 billion. With a vision to be the first-choice employer in UK agriculture, we are committed to delivering a culture where people are at the heart of our success.

Our business approach is underpinned by our core values – Integrity, Customer First and Expertise – or ‘ICE’. These values support our whole philosophy and way of working and we are always looking to attract talented individuals with either industry knowledge or specialist skills that will help us deliver consistently to these values.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

We have a clear commitment to equality of opportunity and diversity encouraging fairness and equality of treatment for all. As such we encourage applications from all backgrounds.

We recognise the value of a workforce in which people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to introduce fresh ideas and contribute to the business goals.

We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive environment with inclusive employment policies, such as progressive flexible working and parental policies.