Monogastric Technical Consultant - Hook, United Kingdom - Elanco

Elanco

Verified Company

Hook, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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As a leading global animal health company, Elanco delivers innovative products and services to improve the health of pets and farm animals around the world because we believe making animals' lives better, makes life better. Since 1954, we have provided solutions that support veterinarians, farmers and pet owners to advance our vision of Food and Companionship Enriching Life.

Elanco's promise to employees:
Together, we foster an inclusive culture where everyone can make a difference, encouraging ownership, growth and well-being.

Responsibilities

Primary responsibility for the Technical Consultant, Poultry will be to lead, transform and elevate the Intestinal Integrity portfolio strategy and technically support the wider portfolio (including vaccines, de-wormers and antibiotics).

This will include internal and external technical leadership, particularly of the Intestinal Integrity (Anticoccidial) brands sales, customer education and training of the commercial team.

The portfolio offers a market leading, best and first in class platform for our customers, with significant emphasis on non-product value to drive engagement with the customer base.

Ensuring all internal stakeholders are exceptionally trained in disease state(s) and the implications on bird health and welfare
Elevating the technical prominence of the portfolio externally, through a complex supply chain, including management of KOLs and external consultants
Monitoring the impact of the portfolio from a farm level up to Senior Managers, through a mix of practical means and complex analytics
Sitting on the Poultry Leadership Team, driving the vision, strategy and tactics of the commercial organisation, to include coaching and development outside of the technical sphere and input into marketing materials
Reviewing past and current technical literature to create new materials (with Marketing and Regulatory functions) for use within/outside of the organisation/affiliate/globally
Designing, executing and analysing Product Evaluations in the field, in conjunction with commercial colleagues and the external supply chain
Education and support of internal and external stakeholders across all levels, including answering offlabel queries and pharmacovigilance management

Role Overview
The role of the UK & Ireland Technical Consultant - Poultry is to provide leadership in the technical positioning of our Poultry portfolio across the affiliate and to the Monogastric food animal industry, by:

Researching, designing and delivering the technical strategy, in alignment & collaboration with the Sales Manager and Marketing Manager (Poultry Leadership Team)
Education, training and coaching of the commercial team in technical knowledge to an outstanding level
Building upon an established brand marketing strategy through developing innovative materials, strategy, messaging and perspective.
Building a wide external network within the marketplace, including KOLs and KDMs to grow product positioning and support sales
Support technical queries and manage pharmacovigilence

Essential Key Job Functions:

Experience and/or an interest in leadership of technical animal health products, including premix and vaccines
A passion for Food Animals, and an interest in sustainable and responsible poultry meat/egg production an advantage.
An understanding of poultry health & husbandry, and/or experience in a technical role is a significant advantage.
Confidence and conviction to provide technical support for customers around a broad portfolio, including off license information where appropriate.
Conducting diagnostic work (necropsies, farm visits etc) and running any pharmacovigilance investigations.
Work closely with the internal sales and marketing teams and wider Elanco functions; Ability to display leadership, delegation and pulling together of resources where appropriate.
Work within local and company guidelines of compliance and ethics ad due diligence in interactions with customers, sponsorship and support of external companies.
Develop relationships with internal and external account stakeholders and work with them to develop mutually beneficial opportunities.
The ability to engage with and influence external stakeholders from farm managers and agricultural staff to commercial decision makers and Veterinary Surgeons.

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