Monogastric Technical Consultant - Hook, United Kingdom - Taleo BE

Description

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.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• 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 off-label 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)
• Supporting the sales of the portfolio, including making recommendations to customers around product usage and application
• 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

This position involves a combination of technical field work, training and education, coaching, presenting information to customers in a distilled format (ability to translate technical information into a digestible format), and collaboration with an experienced team in high-stakes accounts (B2B sales). The candidate must have the ability to work across all poultry customers and geographies in a 'boots to boardroom' approach. The candidate must have a passion to own the technical landscape, focused largely on Intestinal Integrity in Broilers, and work deeply with all internal functions (regulatory, marketing, commercial etc.) to deliver their technical strategy with excellence. The role involves working with local, regional and global peers, and as such offers significant opportunity for development within the organisation.

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.
• The candidate will be trained in supporting the Elanco products but willingness to learn 'on the job' is essential.

Basic Qualifications

Requirements

• MRCVS Qualification (or equivalent overseas qualification + conversion)
• 3+ years in a clinical setting, or in industry experience.
• Monogastric clinical or industry experience a significant advantage
• An interest in parasitology and/or immunology an advantage
• Prior peer-peer coaching experience or working in a leadership role an advantage
• Passion for agriculture, food security and the food animal sector
• Excellent communication skills: verbal, written and interpersonal
• Organisational skills and time management skills
• Demonstrated ability to impart technical and scientific knowledge at appropriate levels
• Strong sense of personal accountability
• Data entry and analysis skills (JMP) desirable but not essential
• Full UK driving license
• English - written and verbal.
• Travel Percentage: 25-50% (Across UK and Ireland with occasional European travel and infrequent global travel)

Elanco is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status