Senior Rural Consultant
Exciting Leadership Opportunity in Rural Consultancy!
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 Savills offer
Recruitment agencies
Savills only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and that agency has been previously contacted and directed by a member of our recruitment team. We do not pay agency fees when speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to Savills or any of our employees other than via our careers website and through our recruitment process. If this is not adhered to, agency fees will not be paid.
Submission of any unsolicited CVs or proposals to Savills will be deemed evidence of full and unlimited acceptance of this approach.
- 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
Our offer
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Holiday
We understand the importance of a work life balance and offer you a generous holiday entitlement, which increases throughout your career as you progress through our job levels or reach service milestones.
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Health
Your wellbeing and that of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer Virtual Gp, Digital Health, Private Medical Scheme and mental health support amongst other benefits.
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Lifestyle
We promote a healthy work life balance, supported by our approach to flexible working and our wide variety of health, wellbeing and social programmes.
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Our Offer
Read more about our benefits and culture in our offer overview below
Values
No matter the role you’re in, we all share one purpose: to help people thrive through places and spaces. This is built into our DNA, shaping the way we behave to deliver the best results. We define it by four key values:
We listen: Tell us your goals and aspirations and we’ll provide the support you need to achieve them. We appreciate the individual value of every team member and create an environment where you can reach your full potential.
We empower: Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve. We give you opportunities to have a real, positive impact in the community through the work you do, backed by access to our market-leading research and insights.
We challenge: The best results happen when we question the status quo. We create an environment where you can safely challenge our thinking, bringing fresh ideas to the table to innovate as a team.
We collaborate: When you join Savills, you become part of a 40,000-strong network of driven individuals, all sharing their knowledge and experience to push the real estate industry forward.
At the heart of it all, we deliver best-in-class insights and advice to help people make better property decisions. We're looking for colleagues who will help us on this mission. When you join Savills, our ask for you is simple – to be extraordinary, together.
About Savills
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Senior Rural Consultant
Exciting Leadership Opportunity in Rural Consultancy!
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