Job title

Food & Farming Graduate

Start Date

September 2025

Job Location

Inverness, Perth, Salisbury

Salary

£26,000 and £1,000 sign on bonus

Current Team Information

The Farming industry is constantly evolving. The Savills Food and Farming team consists of 45 consultants spread across 12 offices throughout England and Scotland, making it one of the biggest agricultural consultancy teams in the country. Despite its size the Food and Farming team prides itself on offering a personable and bespoke service to its clients. The work undertaken by the Food & Farming team can broadly be broken down into two categories – management and consultancy work. Management work consists of helping clients with day to day farm management. Consultancy typically comprises assisting clients with one off ad-hoc pieces of work and projects. Within both types of work our team will assist with all of the agricultural sectors including arable, horticultural, beef, sheep, dairy, pig and poultry enterprises.

Never before has the farming industry faced so many new challenges and opportunities. The pressures of providing cheap food within a sustainable environment, combined with new agricultural and environmental policy, means the sector continues to be a very exciting industry to work and develop a career in. The Savills Food & Farming team is therefore looking to expand to meet the increased demand from clients.

The roles will be based in:

Inverness, Perth and Salisbury

Click here to hear more about the Savills Food and Farming team.

About this role

A Savills Food and Farming graduate will gain a wide range of experience across a multitude of areas including; farm business management, financial reporting, budgeting, rural grants, subsidies, rural planning and environmental management.

Graduates will gather technical expertise relevant to their region and local farming businesses. Food and Farming graduates will develop their consultancy skills and industry knowledge through engagement with a diverse range of clients and their farming businesses, involving themselves in a variety of projects, listening and learning from others within the office and networking with other Savills teams.

Click here to hear from Chloe, one of our Food and Farming Graduates.

Click here to hear from Tim, to learn more about our Food and Farming team.

How you’ll make an impact

• High attention to detail, well organised and a proactive approach
• Strong verbal, numerical and report writing skills
• Ability to empower those around them
• A team player with leadership potential
• Strategic approach to problem solving
• Ability to challenge in a positive way
• Highly motivated
• Ability to Listen to others and Collaborate effectively
• Computer literate

Ahead of anything else, we look for individualism and diversity in our graduate intake - so it's very important at every stage of the selection process that you take the opportunity to show us what you're really like. Be honest and above all, be yourself.

Training

The Savills Food and Farming graduate pathway is unique in the industry and is designed to train graduates to become genuine experts in their field. Graduates will complete the BIAC Foundation 1 and 2 course during their first two years with us. This will be supplemented by additional bespoke in-house training courses designed and delivered by the Food & Farming team.

Career development

After completing the two year graduate scheme, you will submit a report outlining your experiences and will attend a final interview to then progress and become a fully qualified Food and Farming consultant.

There are a range of other training courses to help your development after the graduate programme including the Management and Leadership Programme, Client and Business Skills sessions, and a full programme of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) events.

Benefits

• Permanent Contract for all graduates, as opposed to a 2 year training contract

• Interest free season ticket loan
• Pension Scheme – Royal London
• Company mobile phone
• Training and BIAC costs covered
• 25 days annual leave
• Employee discounts - save money using our MyRewards on thousands of discounts and offers
• Pitch your idea to our Board via the Savills Dragons Den (Innovation and growth initiative)
• Sports activities (Hockey, Netball, Skiing, Rugby, Football, Cricket, Badminton & Squash)
• Employee Assistance Programme – A 24 hour service available to all staff and completely confidential
• Discretionary bonus scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• ShareSave - Save As You Earn share option scheme

Assessment for this role

Online Application - CLICK HERE TO APPLY - Applications close on 3^rd November 2024

Online Assessment - SHL (will be sent on application completion and will need to be completed by 8am on 4^th November 2024)

Assessment Centre – 3^rd December in Edinburgh, 5^th December in London. Please note you will only be asked to attend 1 assessment centre date.

Potential interview with local team following the Assessment Centre

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