Position Snapshot

Nestlé UK&I

Regenerative Agriculture Manager

Gatwick or York (within commutable distance of either)

Salary between £60,000-65,000 d(epending on experience) + car allowance+ Potential Bonus + fantastic holiday entitlement + other excellent Benefits

This is a full-time permenant  opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to use during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you.

Position Summary

We are currently recruiting for a fantastic opportunity to join our Nestlé Sustainability team as Regenerative Agriculture Manager. This role will be based in either our Gatwick or York offices, reporting directly into the Regeneration Lead for Nestlé UK & Ireland with a dotted line into our Head of Sustainability.

The regenerative agriculture manager will play an important role in advancing our sustainability agenda focused on ‘advancing regenerative food systems at scale’. They will focus on driving a transition towards more regenerative agricultural practices to reduce Nestle’s scope 3 footprint and improve soil health, biodiversity and nature outcomes within the supply chains of our locally sourced ingredients including dairy, cereals and sugar.

The role will involve working closely with suppliers, farmers, implementing partners and a wider network of stakeholders across Nestle to engage them on the journey, build and implement programmes and partnerships, innovate to find new solutions to existing challenges and seek to drive change at scale. You will work closely across a range of Nestlé business units including confectionary, cereals, and petfood to help measure and track the progress being made and to help bring the work we are doing to life through our brands for customers and consumers.

A bit about us

Our purpose at Nestlé is to unlock the power of food to enhance the quality of life for everyone, today and for generations to come. We want to help shape a better and healthier world, a sustainable world, for people, families and pets, for our communities and for the planet.

We are the Good Food, Good Life company. We have more than 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favourites and are present in 187 countries worldwide. We focus our energy and resources where unlocking the power of food can make the greatest difference to the lives of people and pets, protect and enhance the environment, and generate significant value for our shareholders and stakeholders alike.

As a company, we’re committed to change. We’re reducing landfill waste to zero, fighting deforestation with satellites, moving to 100% renewable energy and 100% recyclable or reusable packaging. We’re investing in regenerative agriculture, reforestation and biodiversity schemes and restricting the use of fertilisers and antibiotics. We’re changing our products to focus on balanced, healthy ingredients.

We’ve committed to helping 50 million children to lead healthier lives; to improving the livelihoods of 30 million people; and reducing impact and becoming a more regenerative business. We have the reach and scale to be a part of the solution and we’re looking for someone to join our team and be part of making that solution a reality.

A day in the life of the Regenerative Agriculture Manager 

A day in the life of the Regenerative Agriculture Manager will see you working towards the goal to source 50% of key ingredients from farms using regenerative agricultural practices by 2030. This will require partnering with all Nestlé businesses (product categories), suppliers, and external partners to help plan and implement strategies to achieve this. You will:

• Play an active role in implementing and continuously improving the UK & I strategy to improve the environmental performance of our ingredients supply.
• Manage existing regenerative agriculture projects (e.g. Landscape Enterprise Networks (LENs)) to ensure they deliver across a range of environmental and social outcomes  and track key metrics and performance in Nestle systems.
• Work with the regeneration team to identify, prioritise and create the business case for new regenerative  and/or landscape restoration projects and work with partners to deliver MRV capabilities, systems and processes.
• Liaise with and manage relationships with farmers and suppliers to continue to strengthen partnerships and trust with Nestle, and to facilitate  regeneration projects as well commercial and customer facing activities such as farm visits. Getting out on farm, visiting suppliers and meeting with partners will be a regular part of your schedule.

• Support the businesses with incorporating regenerative agriculture and landscape restoration activities into the brand proposition.

• Provide agronomy and technical expertise to give support, guidance and training to develop knowledge on regenerative agriculture and landscape restoration across the organisation.
• Input to key communications assets to share our work with others to help encourage more collaboration, to build confidence in our approach and to help build trust in Nestlé.

What will make you successful?

The successful candidate will have a strong background in sustainable agriculture and agronomy, a great network in UK&I agriculture and be familiar with interacting with a range of stakeholders on farm and up and down the value chain.

You will have a passion for sustainability, be results focused and enjoy working in an exciting and dynamic team environment. You’ll be willing and eager to engage across a whole range of teams and categories to help create compelling, high impact initiatives that deliver for both us and our supply chain stakeholders. You’ll have a thirst for building impactful collaborations, be able to think strategically and innovatively and have a can-do attitude to help drive towards positive outcomes.

Some key skills we are looking for include:

• Strong technical knowledge and competence on agricultural practices, agronomy and sustainability in UK&I.
• Be a strategic thinker, able to synthesise lots of information and create compelling case for action.
• Be comfortable understanding the detail, developing concepts into feasible project proposals, and create budgets and business cases.
• Understand the importance of working in partnership with a range of stakeholders to deliver results.
• Be curious and courageous, we’re not afraid to think differently and embrace new ideas. We want you to disrupt what we do in the right way and drive great results and change. Be willing to speak up, input ideas and challenge the status quo to help drive change.
• Demonstrate the ability to learn quickly, a commitment to professional growth, and take ownership of your personal development journey.
• Good interpersonal skills, able to engage with different stakeholders across different levels of seniority.
• Demonstrate a keen interest and passion for sustainability across, environmental, social, economic and health.
• Familiarity with carbon measurement, accounting and protocols in FLAG scope 3 projects is a plus!

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 13th October 2025

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!