Agri Manager in Ashburton, Canterbury at Ravensdown

About the role

Are you passionate about agriculture and ready to help shape the future of farming? We’re on the lookout for a driven, customer-focused Agri professional to join our team in a permanent Agri Manager role at our Ashburton Office.

As an Agri Manager, you’ll be a trusted advisor to farmers, helping them get the best from their soil, pasture, crops, and animals while guiding them towards environmentally sustainable practices. You’ll play a vital role in reducing environmental impacts and unlocking value from the land through expert nutrient advice, innovative services, and top-quality products.

This is a role where every day counts – you’ll spend most of your time on farm, building strong relationships, identifying needs, and delivering tailored solutions that make a real difference. Your patch will cover a diverse mix of sheep, beef, and dairy customers across Mid-Canterbury.

What you'll do

• Build strong partnerships with farmers, understanding their needs and delivering solutions that drive success.
• Plan and implement customer visits, achieving sales targets while providing expert advice.
• Use cutting-edge technology to help shareholders boost profitability and lead in environmental stewardship.
• Create strategies to reduce environmental impact and optimise land value.
• Keep learning and growing – because your development matters too.

What you'll bring

• A can-do attitude and a genuine passion for the agriculture industry.
• 2 + years of hands-on experience engaging with customers, driving sales growth, and fostering authentic business relationships.
• Solid knowledge of farming systems and soil fertility.
• Excellent communication skills – you love a good yarn and can build trust easily.
• Awareness of New Zealand’s evolving environmental policies and their impact on farming.
• Tech-savvy with experience in agricultural technology systems.
• Ideally, a Bachelor’s degree in agriculture or a related field.

Benefits

In return for your skills, we offer a very competitive package that includes an array of insurances, company car, phone, laptop, company clothing, plus excellent training opportunities in a supportive cooperative environment.

How to apply: Create a profile and submit your CV and Cover letter.

Applications Close: Sunday 14 June 2026

About the company

Ravensdown as a co-operative is all about essential farm inputs, and smart people using smart tools with the latest science in mind and our shareholders’ interests at heart.

Our work is guided by strong values that shape how we operate every day:

We Connect | Whanaungatanga
We Respect | Kaitiakitanga
We Deliver | Kotahitanga

These values are central to our culture and are actively lived, recognised, and celebrated across the organisation.

We are an integral part of the food creation process. We are the only co-operative that tests for, advises about, buys, ships, stores, spreads, measures and maps food creating nutrients and fertiliser in a truly integrated way.

Using technology, science, and smart people, we work in partnership with our farmers to provide the nutrients and agronomic solutions they need, together with innovative environmental products and services.

Through this, we are committed to Smarter farming for a better New Zealand, Ka pūkekotia a Rongomātāne, ka poho kererū a Aotearoa

Ravensdown is committed to a drug and alcohol free workplace. The successful applicant will be required to undergo a pre-employment drug and alcohol test.