Overview
Commercial Director – AB Neo – United Kingdom
Job Title: Commercial Director – AB Neo
Location: Homebased with international travel. Key AB Neo locations include the UK, Poland, Denmark and Spain.
Contract type: Permanent
If you’re someone who enjoys shaping strategy, leading great people and seeing the real‑world impact of your decisions, this could be a role where you truly make your mark.
We’re looking for a Commercial Director to lead the global commercial, marketing and product agenda for AB Neo, our specialist animal nutrition business focused on swine and ruminant markets. This is a senior, influential role where you’ll set direction, make big calls, and work closely with teams around the world to turn insight into sustainable growth.
You’ll be joining a business with strong scientific foundations, ambitious growth plans and a genuine desire to do the right thing for customers, animals and the wider food system.
What you’ll be doing:
- Setting the global commercial strategy for AB Neo, grounded in real market insight and customer understanding
- Owning global commercial performance, with full P&L responsibility and accountability for growth and profitability
- Leading and developing senior commercial, marketing and product teams across regions and cultures
- Bringing clarity and focus to planning, forecasting, pricing and portfolio decisions
- Shaping how our products and brands show up in the market, working closely with Marketing, R&D and Technical teams
- Building strong, long‑term relationships with key customers, partners and distributors
- Representing AB Neo at industry events and helping position us as a trusted, forward‑thinking partner
- Spotting future opportunities – from innovation to new business models – and helping turn them into reality
What you’ll bring:
- Senior commercial leadership experience within animal nutrition, feed, livestock or a closely related agribusiness
- Experience operating at a global or multi‑regional level, with exposure to swine and/or ruminant markets
- Strong commercial and financial judgement, with experience owning and delivering a P&L
- A strategic mindset, balanced with the ability to roll your sleeves up and make things happen
- A people‑first leadership style — someone who builds trust, develops others and leads inclusively
- Confidence working across cultures, functions and geographies
- Fluent business English and comfort operating on the global stage
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
Rewarding your passion
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don’t accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.
IMPORTANT: Before applying for this role, please make sure you have the right to work in the country where the role is based. Unless it clearly stipulates within in the job advert above that the hiring company is looking to or able to sponsor applicants it is deemed that the hiring employer will only consider applications from those able to comply with and work in the country where the role is based.
