SENIOR RURAL CONSULTANT

Business area: Rural & Projects

Role: Rural Management

Locations: Dumfries, Ayr

Contract Type: Permanent, Full time

Remote Status: This role is office based, this role offers some working from home

Salary: Highly Competitive + Bonus + Car Allowance

Role Overview
Are you passionate about farming and rural businesses? We're offering a unique chance to join our team and deliver professional, cost-effective, and practical advice to farm and rural clients. For the right candidate, this role also includes the opportunity to lead and develop a team and provide a blend of consultancy services to our valued rural clients.

Key Responsibilities
Direct responsibility for individual Farm & Estate Client relationships with work streams, which include:
• Day to Day Management & Consultancy across a diverse range of agricultural and rural businesses.
• Budgeting and financial management of farm and rural businesses assisted by an in-house accounts team.
• Completion and management of Contract Farming/Share Farming and grazing agreements.
• Completion of one-off strategic business reviews.
• Ad-hoc consultancy instructions.

What We’re Looking For:
You will be expected to demonstrate a diplomatic ability to communicate well with clients and colleagues. Networking skills will be critical, and the ability to develop business and encourage others to do the same will be vital.
• Previous consultancy experience, good market knowledge and commercial awareness.
• Sound practical agricultural and ideally estate management experience.
• Ideally 3 + years post-graduation.
• Personable and presentable, confident with a positive outlook.
• Potential team leader, effective communicator with a strategic outlook.
• Strong analytical, research and report writing skills.
• Understanding of the rural property and factors driving the rural and agricultural land markets.
• Excellent numerate, analytical and technical skills.
• IT competent.
• Ability to work to deadlines, plan their time effectively and manage pinch points.
• Ethical with solid integrity.
• Someone with innate curiosity and is eager to experiment and push the boundaries of what is possible.
• Strategic approach to problem solving.
• Ability to drive a substantial caseload with limited oversight.
• Autonomous – able to take sole responsibility for instructions from start to finish.
• Continuous improvement: delivers efficiency in addition to effectiveness.

About the Team: You'll join a thriving team in South West Scotland, supported by Savills consultants across Scotland and Northern England. Our Dumfries, Ayr, and Glasgow offices offer various services, providing further opportunities for collaboration and growth.

Ready to make an impact in rural consultancy? Apply today and step into a role that will lead to leadership opportunities and shape the future of Savills rural business management in the South West of Scotland.

Assessment Process:
• Two-stage interview
• Personality profile review

Don’t miss this chance to grow your career and lead a team to success!

Find out more about what Savills offer

Recruitment agencies
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Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.

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