Work Placements

As an integral part of the team, this rotation is a great opportunity to gain a full understanding of the business across a 12-month period. Split across five business areas, the placement will give the successful student the chance to develop their commercial knowledge while working in the farm trading, forwarding and grain administration and operations teams, as well as joining Kings, a leading specialist crops provider and division of Frontier. 

This role will be based at Sandy, Bedfordshire for the first seven months and then Diss, Suffolk for the remainder of the year. Travel to sites and events will be part of this role, therefore a driving license is a must. 

Following this rotation, some of our previous placement students have gone on to take roles in our commercial, agronomy and trading teams, after completing their degree.

Our marketing and communications placement offers the successful student the opportunity to become a member of our growing full-service, in-house marketing and communications team, supporting with the planning and implementation of a variety of projects that range from corporate communications and PR to website management and event support. In addition to working with key internal stakeholders, the successful student will liaise with external agencies and suppliers to successfully manage the creation of marketing content. 

To be based at Witham St. Hughs (between Newark and Lincoln) at least three days a wek, with the rest of the week home-based. The role is working in a small in-house team and will be cheifly split 50/50 between communications and customer marketing activity. 

This rotation would be suited to a proactive student with an appetite to learn and gain a wide variety of experience during their placement year. Travel to some events and sites will be part of this role, therefore a full driving licence is a must.