[Hiring] Head of Poultry @St Ewe Free Range Eggs Limited

Role Description

This isn't just another Head of Poultry role. It's an opportunity to help shape the future of one of the UK's most distinctive and exciting food businesses. At St Ewe, we've spent years challenging convention, pushing boundaries and proving that eggs can be so much more than a commodity.

We're looking for an exceptional Head of Poultry to help lead the next chapter of our journey. Not someone who simply maintains standards. Not someone who waits for problems to happen. We're looking for someone who wants to build.

A leader who is passionate about poultry, thrives on developing people, builds trusted producer relationships and continuously raises the bar for welfare, performance and innovation.

You'll lead our Poultry Team and work closely with:

• Producers
• Vets
• Technical partners
• The wider leadership team

Your role:

• Lead the St Ewe poultry function, taking ownership of flock performance, welfare, compliance and producer engagement.
• Strengthen producer relationships, improve systems and help build a resilient, high-performing supply base.
• Bring poultry insight, practical farm understanding and clear leadership into business planning and decision making.

Qualifications

• Strong poultry sector knowledge, ideally in layers, pullets, free range systems or producer networks.
• Strong understanding of welfare, flock performance, biosecurity and farm assurance.
• Confident using data to identify trends, manage risk and drive improvement.
• Clear communicator who can influence producers, colleagues and external partners.
• Commercial awareness and understanding of production economics.
• Practical, credible and confident on farm.

Requirements

• Experience leading a team and building accountability.
• Experience working with producers, farmers or contract supply networks.
• Experience with poultry assurance standards, ideally Lion Code, RSPCA Assured and customer audits.
• Experience working with vets, feed companies, pullet suppliers or technical partners.
• Experience improving processes, reporting, performance systems or ways of working.
• Experience in an egg packing business or integrated poultry supply chain would be beneficial.

Company Description

As a certified B Corp, we're committed to building a business that delivers for people, planet and profit.