Description:
About the role
Reporting to the Livestock Manager, this primary purpose of this role is to ensure timely supply of livestock to ACC Properties and Feedlots in line with the required volume, specifications, quality and pricing schedules.
- Attend livestock saleyards / events
- Build and maintain mutually beneficial, long-term partnerships with vendors and suppliers based on transparency, trust and loyalty
- Proactively engage producers, agents and vendors and provide timely, honest and constructive feedback to vendors on cattle performance
- Maintain an informed awareness about industry trends, seasonal influences and risk to livestock supply
- Ensure livestock suppliers uphold ACC’s standards relating to quality and animal welfare
- Liaison with livestock transport and logistics providers
- Prompt and accurate data capture and internal reporting
- Ensure accurate and efficient processing of livestock transactions, approvals, documentation and compliance records
- Identify and share improvement opportunities in strategic sourcing and industry partnerships
About you
We are looking for a well-established, industry professional with demonstrated success in a similar capacity (either agency or buying) who can hit the ground running! Whilst our preference is that you’re based in Central Queensland, we can be flexible with your location and we have an offices in Roma and Brisbane. Along with being ready and available for frequent travel throughout Queensland and the Territory, the successful candidate will:
- Have demonstrated experience and highly effective skills in correctly assessing various cattle classes and accurately drafting to specification
- Maintain a highly credible professional and personal brand as an ACC ambassador
- Confidently and positively engage with a range of internal and external stakeholders
- Exceptional relationship building skills
- Be able to effectively negotiate and influence
- Use sound analytical skills and data to make informed decisions and recommendations
- Operate effectively under pressure to deadlines within tight time constraints
- Be competent with technology and have sound computer literacy
- Have exceptional attention to detail and problem-solving ability
- Have a commitment to working safely and be able to proactively manage own fitness for work
What's in it for you
Starting with approximately one month at our Roma based operations for onboarding, training and a thorough handover, you’ll continue to enjoy:
· An attractive salary package
- Tool of trade vehicle
- Laptop & Mobile
- Ongoing development opportunities
- Corporate clothing provided
- Employee Assistance Program
- Career progression throughout our supply chain
About us
Australian Country Choice (ACC) is a proud industry leader in producing and supplying the highest quality beef products to both local and export markets. We employ over 1200 team members and together our diverse operation runs 300,000 head of cattle across our large-scale breeding, backgrounding, farming, and feed lotting through to our modern food processing and value add packing facility.
We are the largest, Australian owned and privately operated, fully integrated beef cattle supply chain. This means you really do get the best of both worlds. You get the opportunity and security that comes with a progressive corporate pastoral operation who continue to grow, develop and innovate, along with the support and personal interest that comes with being part of a family business.
We strive to earn our stripes as masters of our craft with a commitment to “being right” in everything we do, and, how we do it by delivering the highest standards in safety, customer, operational excellence, and our people. We do this by living our “Be Right” values of: Belief, Energy, Responsibility, Integrity, Grit, Humility and Team.
Apply now! See more about us here: https://youtu.be/ic7P8kHXlzg