Managing Director at Aviagen Turkeys

✔️ Full executive responsibility for financial, commercial, operational, and organisational performance

✔️ Overall accountability for ATL’s P&L and the international distribution portfolio

✔️ Develop the distribution platform and routes to market, prioritizing territories and choosing the right model market by market

✔️ Maintain senior-level relationships with customers, distributors, partners, and industry stakeholders 

✔️ Represent ATL at senior customer, industry, and Turkey Group level to ensure effective collaboration 

A Managing Director with (inter)national business leadership experience in the poultry industry.

Job requirements

✔️ Minimum of 10 years’ senior leadership experience in the poultry industry, including full P&L accountability

✔️ Multi-country business leadership exercised through subsidiary Managing Directors or General Managers is a strong asset

✔️ Experience of trading across the geographic remit (Europe - EU and non-EU, Central Asia, the Caucasus) plus responsibility for developing new international markets

✔️ Fluent written and spoken English

✔️ Willingness to relocate to Chester area and travel internationally on a regular basis

Competences

✔️ Ability to assess and prioritise investment opportunities and build commercially robust business cases.

✔️ Strong focus on customers, markets, profitable growth and long-term value creation.

✔️ Ability to interpret financial and operational data and translate it into sound commercial decisions.

✔️ Comfortable operating with significant autonomy while working effectively within a privately owned, Group-governed organisation.   

Aviagen Turkeys Ltd offers You a role in which You will lead a complex international business and a portfolio of operating companies. This is an opportunity to lead a highly specialised business at the forefront of the global turkey genetics industry, combining full business leadership with the chance to make a lasting impact on the wider poultry sector.

As part of the international Aviagen group, Aviagen Turkeys operates at the very beginning of the poultry value chain, where genetic progress, bird health, welfare and production efficiency have a direct influence on the performance and sustainability of the industry. Its established B.U.T. and Nicholas brands, international customer base and breeding programmes provide a strong platform for continued development. A market-competitive remuneration package is envisaged, commensurate with the seniority and responsibilities of the role. 

Aviagen Turkeys Ltd (ATL), with headquarters near Chester (UK), part of the international turkey breeding business within Aviagen Group, is the world’s leading turkey breeding company. As a primary breeder, Aviagen Turkeys provides the highest-quality genetic stock and the technical support to enable efficient and healthy turkey production. ATL supplies breeding stock and hatching eggs to turkey producers across its international markets and is supported by a portfolio of owned distribution businesses. Continuous investments in R&D reflect the desire to better service customer needs. Modern breeding aims to achieve balanced, sustainable selection, which includes health, robustness, fitness and welfare traits, as well as suitability for meat production. 

The company is part of EW GROUP GmbH, a both modern, strategic holding company, as well as a traditional family business. Founded in 1928, EW GROUP is firmly established in the world’s major animal breeding, animal health, animal nutrition, and other agricultural markets and consists of over 300 subsidiaries and employs more than 28,000 people.  

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2. You can upload your resume or send it later via email.
3. You will receive a confirmation of your application.
4. You will be contacted soon by Ceres Recruitment.