Senior Farms Engagement Manager: Agri-Tech

This is a senior leadership role for someone who understands one simple truth; agri‑tech only matters if farmers actually use it.

Our client is working at the forefront of UK agri‑tech, helping innovative technologies move out of trials and into real commercial farm businesses. This role exists to make that happen at scale.

As Senior Farms Engagement Manager, you’ll sit at the point where farmers, innovation and commercial reality meet.

You won’t be running individual projects day‑to‑day. Instead, you’ll design the strategy for how farmers are engaged across programmes, lead national teams, and make sure innovation is practical, credible and worth adopting on farm.

You’ll be the senior advocate for farmers inside innovation programmes, shaping how producers are brought in, how technologies are trialled and how adoption is accelerated once something actually works.

You’ll lead engagement managers, oversee demonstration farm networks, and build trusted producer champions who influence adoption across the sector.

Key responsibilities:

Owning the national strategy for engaging primary producers, aligned to programme milestones and commercialisation pathways

Designing clear, repeatable pathways through awareness, trial, validation, adoption and championing

Ensuring robust capture of ROI, productivity, sustainability and impact data 

Leading and developing a team of Primary Producer Engagement Managers and the Farm Network Manager

Ensuring new technologies are practical, commercially viable and deliverable in real farm systems

Building trusted two‑way feedback loops between farmers, innovators and programme teams

Developing and supporting a visible cohort of Producer Champions who influence peer adoption

Identifying and helping remove the real barriers to adoption including cost, risk, complexity and confidence

Setting KPIs, managing budgets and ensuring consistent delivery and reporting across regions

Working closely with supply chain, advisory and programme stakeholders to support wider uptake

 What we’re looking for:

This is a senior, credibility‑led role. You’ll need to bring both agricultural authority and strategic leadership.

You’ll likely have:

Extensive experience working directly with commercial primary producers

A strong understanding of farm business drivers (e.g. productivity, profitability, sustainability and risk)

Proven experience leading and managing distributed, multi‑regional teams

The ability to translate innovation into something farmers can realistically use and justify

A deep understanding of what drives (and blocks) agri‑tech adoption

Experience with impact measurement, ROI modelling or evidence‑based decision making

An established network and credibility within UK agriculture and/or agri‑tech

Strong commercial awareness and the confidence to challenge when something won’t work on farm

What you can expect:

Highly competitive salary and package

To apply:

For more information and an informal confidential discussion please call Jon Handley on: Office 01885 485522 or e-mail your CV and covering letter to jon.handley@delacyexecutive.co.uk

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