Overview
Support Nutritionist – Rugeley
Job Title: Support Nutritionist
Location: Rugeley, Staffordshire, UK
Contract: Full time, Permanent, Hybrid role, two days per week onsite in Rugeley
Package includes Salary From £27,000, plus pension contributions matched up to 10%, performance related bonus and access to flexible benefits that support your development, wellbeing and everyday life.
About the Role
At Premier Nutrition, we are proud to be a leading name in animal nutrition. We are now looking for a Support Nutritionist to join our technical team in Rugeley.
We seek a candidate who values nutrition, data integrity, and the delivery of technical excellence to our internal and external partners
As a Support Nutritionist, you will play a key role in ensuring our products and services meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and nutritional performance. You’ll work closely with colleagues across technical, commercial, and operational teams to deliver solutions that drive value for our customers and support Premier Nutrition’s growth strategy.
What You’ll Do
- Maintain product data and systems to ensure accurate formulation and labelling, upholding the highest standards of feed safety.
- Provide professional, efficient technical support to colleagues and customers.
- Contribute to the delivery of widely recognised commercial nutrition proficiency across the business.
- Support Premier Nutrition’s growth and everyday excellence initiatives.
- Assist with R&D projects, feed material evaluations, trials, and the interpretation of results for commercial use.
- Develop new technical ideas and insights that drive value to our product portfolio.
- Engage with suppliers to assess new products, concepts, and additives.
Who You’ll Work With
You’ll collaborate with a range of stakeholders, including:
- Premier’s technical, commercial, and management teams
- Customer services, planning, and operations teams
- External suppliers and customers
- Effective communication and relationship-building skills are essential to understand and meet diverse business and customer needs.
About You
Knowledge & Experience:
- Degree in a biological science with a nutrition focus (Essential)
- Practical experience applying nutrition in a commercial environment (Desirable)
- Creative problem solver with the ability to think differently and spot new opportunities (Essential)
- Proficient in conveying ideas to diverse audiences, including those with technical and non-technical backgrounds
- Credible and capable of becoming a recognised expert in the field (Desirable)
Where growth meets purpose
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 shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
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.
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
Premier Nutrition are a leading provider of vitamin premix to manufacturers of animal feed across Europe and Asia and offers expert advice to customers from some of the worlds leading nutritionists.
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.
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.
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