Administration Assistant, Farm Trading


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Job Title: Administration Assistant, Farm Trading
Location: Hemswell, International/Other

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Administrative/Clerical
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Job Purpose:

To be part of a team providing key support to the Farm Trading department, delivering high-quality administrative expertise that helps drive commercial success and strong customer relationships across the agricultural sector.

Main Responsibilities:

  • Provide proactive, efficient administrative support to the Farm Trading team, ensuring smooth day-to-day operations.
  • Work closely with Farm Traders, supporting daily activities such as handling enquiries, managing contracts, processing amendments, and sharing pricing and sample results.
  • Build strong relationships with farmers by maintaining regular contact and supporting ongoing business opportunities.
  • Set up new customer accounts and maintain accurate, up-to-date records.
  • To assist with general account management including, but not limited to, activley monitoring overdue accounts, along with managing and chasing stakeholders to return paperwork required for compliance purposes (eg. Warrants, Regen Programmes, ID), and escalating where necessary.
  • Maintenance of spreadsheets to determine availability/quality and pricing requirements of forward contracts.
  • To contact prospect customers via telephone to create leads for Farm Traders.
  • Assisting the Farm Trading desk with campaigns providing relevant information is presented in an accurate and timely manner.
  • Assisting with the organisation of farmer events.
  • To assist with organisation of samplers and their workloads during harvest.
Skills, Abilities and Experience:

Experience
  • One year's experience of working in an administrative role essential.
  • Confident user of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel) with the ability to learn and work with bespoke systems.
Capabilities
  • Strong commercial awareness.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build rapport quickly.
  • Highly organised, proactive and motivated to deliver outstanding administration support.
  • Comfortable with working collaboratively and building relationships with both internal teams and external customers.


#IncludingYou

Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are cornerstones of ADM's efforts to continue innovating, driving growth, and delivering outstanding performance. We are committed to attracting and retaining a diverse workforce and create welcoming, truly inclusive work environments - environments that enable every ADM colleague to feel comfortable on the job, make meaningful contributions to our success, and grow their career. We respect and value the unique backgrounds and experiences that each person can bring to ADM because we know that diversity of perspectives makes us better, together.

For more information regarding our efforts to advance Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, please visit our website here: Culture, Engagement & Inclusion | ADM.

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Job Post Date: 04/25/26
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Country: International/Other

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