Farms Engagement Manager

Farms Engagement Manager

Employment Type: Permanent – Full Time

Location: Field

Reporting To: Senior Farms Engagement Manager

Compensation: £48,000 – £58,000 / year

Description

• This role is responsible for coordinating, with other industry stakeholders, a national network of commercial demonstration farms that support the validation, showcasing, and scaling of emerging agri-tech innovations.
• The role will understand the consistency of approach, data capture, and delivery standards across the UK demonstration farm networks—enabling technologies to be demonstrated credibly, repeatedly, and at scale.
• The postholder will look to strengthen cooperation across demonstration farms while expanding the network to include innovative, commercially progressive farm businesses capable of accelerating adoption and sector-wide impact.

This role is field-based, which means you’ll be travelling to client sites, partner sites and our locations as part of your day-to-day work. You may also work from your home address for a minority of the week or attend one of our sites from time to time. Our main locations are: Oxford, York, Edinburgh, Cranfield, Newport (Midlands).

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate and map, with industry stakeholders, collaboration between demonstration farms nationally to share learning, challenges, and best practice.
• Ensure alignment between farm network activity and programme milestones, KPIs, and impact measurement requirements.
• Develop and understanding of scalable models for on-farm demonstrations across different sectors and production systems.
• Work closely with programme teams to ensure there is awareness of where technologies can be deployed in commercial farm environments across the UK.
• Lead on collaborative demonstration events that showcase innovation in action.
• Identify forward-thinking commercial farms suitable for inclusion in the UK agri-tech centre partner farm network.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with potential new host farms and ecosystem partners.
• Expand the wider demonstration ecosystem, including collaboration with supply chain partners and advisory networks.
• Foster collaboration between farm hosts, engagement managers, industry stakeholders, and programme teams.
• Support the development of “host farm champions” who act as credible ambassadors for technology adoption.
• Ensure farm network activities contribute directly to commercialisation pathways for agri-tech ventures.
• Maintain accurate records of demonstration activity, data capture, and stakeholder engagement.
• Contribute to impact reporting, case studies, and portfolio-level performance metrics.

What we are looking for

• Deep understanding of commercial farming systems across the UK.
• Experience coordinating multi-site farm demonstration or farm network activity.
• Proven relationship‑building skills with agri‑tech ventures, value chain, primary producers and rural stakeholders.
• Organisational skills to manage national coordination activity.
• Experience working within an agri‑tech or innovation programme environment.
• Understanding of data collection, benchmarking, and impact measurement.
• Established network with agri‑tech ventures and UK agriculture.
• Network coordination and collaboration.
• Strategic relationship building.
• Clear communicator across technical and commercial audiences.
• Outcome‑driven and organised.
• Systems thinking across innovation and adoption pathways.

Additional Information

• Travel will be required.
• UK driving licence is mandatory to have.

Why join us?

You will be part of a pioneering organisation driving innovation in agri‑tech, whilst working in a collaborative and forward‑thinking environment. There is opportunity to grow and develop within a newly established organisation.

• 33 days of annual leave with flexible public holidays allocation
• Flexible working hours
• 4x salary life assurance
• EAP with 24/7 helpline and expert advice service (legal, finance, health)
• Pension salary sacrifice scheme availability
• Fees for professional memberships
• Ongoing training and development

If you are ready for a role that truly makes an impact – join us and be part of something meaningful. We’d love to hear from you!

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