Livestock Buyer
Job No:
ACC2081
Location:
Roma
Livestock Buyer
- Genuine career development & progression
- 100% Australian owned & operated integrated beef supply chain
- Competitive salary and vehicle provided
About us:
The Australian Country Choice group of companies (ACC) are proud industry leaders in producing and supplying high quality beef products to major supermarket retailers and export markets. Being 100% Australian owned, we are the world’s largest, family operated, vertically integrated, beef supply chain. Our commitment to safety, quality and operational excellence is shared by our dedicated team of over 1300 employees across multiple cattle breeding, backgrounding, farming and lot feeding properties across Queensland, through to our state of the art food processing and value-add packing facility just east of Brisbane’s CBD. Learn more about our diverse operation here which spans over 4 million acres, carries 260,000 head of cattle and has the capacity to process up to 300,000 head every year.
It’s both an exciting and challenging time to be a part of ACC as our business model, customer base, service and delivery undergoes significant transformation.
About the role:
Working across the Agri-business and reporting to the General Manager – Livestock, you’ll work closely with ACC buyers & commission buyers to deliver the required livestock numbers to our feedlots, to required customer specifications and demand on a weekly basis. Your role will be responsible for:
- Purchasing cattle for our Feedlots
- Ensuring cattle scheduling is within ordered weekly volumes for multiple cattle classes
- Ensuring cattle class specifications are communicated to vendors for delivery
- Managing and coordinating logistics for cattle movements between feedlots, vendors & saleyards
- Providing accurate & timely reporting for vendor payments and induction feedback
- Purchasing background cattle for restocking ACC Properties
- Building and developing trusted, long term relationships with suppliers to support future supply
- Identifying profitable external sales destinations for ACC feedlot & property cattle
With an eye for detail and extensive livestock knowledge gained from experience within the cattle and beef production industry, the successful candidate will bring:
- At least 3 years experience success within livestock buying/trading/agency roles
- Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills required to build and maintain key industry relationships
- Excellent organisational, planning and time management skills
- Self-driven with high degree of initiative
- Highly accurate numerical skills for data capture and reporting
- Strong computer literacy
We are flexible on where your home base is, and as well as being available for regular travel, you’ll be a proactive and career driven livestock buying professional who is capable of future progression into senior roles and is seeking long term stability with us.
At ACC we’ve earned our stripes as masters of our craft & continue to deliver the highest standards in safety, customer, investment in innovation and capability of our people to ensure ongoing operational excellence. Our need to “Be Right” is actively driven by the behaviours that underpin our values of belief, energy, responsibility, integrity, grit, humility & team. We offer the security of a corporate environment with the personal touch of a family business. Apply now and earn your stripes with ACC.
