Overview
Formulator – Peterborough
Job Title: Formulator (Monogastric)
Location: Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, UK
Contract type and shift: Permanent, Monday to Friday – (Hybrid working available)
Are you a recent science graduate looking to start your career in agribusiness?
Do you want to apply your curiosity, engage with novel ideas, and delight in innovative challenges?
Are you seeking an opportunity that provides genuine growth, advancement, and enhanced career opportunities?
About the Role
As a formulator at AB Agri (part of our ABN division), you’ll be at the heart of our feed formulation process, working within a skilled, cross-functional team to create nutritionally optimised and cost-effective animal feed solutions.
You’ll collaborate closely with procurement, supply chain, technical, and QA teams, using data-driven insights and the format system to deliver real business value.
What You’ll Be Doing:
- Become an expert user of FORMAT diet formulation software.
- Create least-cost formulations while balancing nutritional quality and operational constraints.
- Explore existing practices and propose smarter, more sustainable solutions.
- Stay alert to raw material trends and market movements.
- Collaborate with internal teams to ensure consistency and strategic alignment.
- Contribute to strategy meetings, QA reviews, and pricing/specification planning.
- Build effective internal networks to support your career development.
Who We’re Looking For:
- A recent graduate in a science-related or animal nutrition field
- Someone inquisitive, commercially aware, and keen to problem-solve.
- Effective communicator who can see the bigger picture and work across departments.
- Numerate and analytical with excellent attention to detail
- Committed to advancing sustainability, innovation, and the agri-food sector.
- A full UK driving licence and willingness to travel when needed.
Why Join AB Agri?
- A clear two-year development plan with mentoring and project opportunities
- Hybrid working with in-office collaboration days (typically Wed & Thurs)
- A group that encourages exploration, ownership, and creative thinking.
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
ABN is the UK’s number one animal feed business, serving pig and poultry producers across the UK. These range from large corporate customers through to family-owned farm enterprises. We service these customers with feed, nutrition, advice, and related services.
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. 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 building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.
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.
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.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
