Position Announcement: Swine Technical Services Veterinarian

September 1, 2021 — Phibro Animal Health Corporation

Phibro Animal Health Corporation is seeking to add a Swine Technical Services Veterinarian. In collaboration with account managers, the successful candidate will provide technical support to swine veterinarians and producers regarding clinical cases, selection of isolates, and appropriate use of autogenous vaccines. Our unique offering to our customers combines medicated feed additives, mineral nutrition with autogenous vaccine manufacturing to best meet their individual health and production needs. This role will require overnight travel as needed. We offer an excellent compensation and benefits package.

Position Purpose

The position exists to drive demand for Phibro Animal Health products into the swine industry by providing expert technical support to customers and building strong ties with key influencers across the industry including veterinarians, nutritionists and the academic community.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with Phibro Sales Team to advance revenue and earnings by providing timely, expert, technical information regarding the efficacy and value of Phibro products.
• Design vaccines, medicated feed additive programs and nutritional specialty programs with customers that will enable them to achieve maximum performance from Phibro Products.
• Provide the global marketing team with accurate, credible, and current technical information that will support the achievement of commercial objectives.
• Assist swine production companies in the technical evaluation of production issues and then to provide logical solutions to them.
• To participate in the conduct of research trials designed to promote the use of the PAHC product lines.
• To positively interface with industry decision makers, influencers, and key academic and scientific leaders in the US swine industry in support of Phibro products.
• Attend trade shows and academic conferences to support and build the Phibro product lines.
• Keep management updated on current industry issues and trends.

Key Competencies

Technical

• Expert command of swine health
• In depth understanding of swine production, husbandry, and processing.
• Demonstrated ability to design and manage meaningful field trials
• Excellent understanding of current trends and issues in swine health.
• Assist in an understanding of the cattle production, husbandry, and processing
• Competency in computer application, MS office etc.

Business

• Understanding of the financial drivers of success at Phibro Animal Health. Recognizes the relationship between sales, marketing, operations, and finance.
• Understand the customer's business model and its implication on decisions making and the relevance of technical information for that model.
• Demonstrated ability to interface effectively with both decision makers and influencers (internal and external) to promote Phibro products.
• Good understanding of industry trends

Personal

• Self-starter who will take the initiative and will go the "extra mile" to ensure a sound outcome.
• Excellent communicator, listens well, and is versatile in presenting technical information to different audiences with different technical knowledge levels.
• High degree of personal integrity
• Innovative in addressing complex problems to come up with credible, accurate and beneficial solutions

Qualifications

• DVM degree from an accredited university
• Advanced training and/or experience in swine health
• A minimum of 3-5 years of experience in the US swine industry or equivalent experience working in the allied health industries.

Reporting

Director, US Swine Business Unit

Candidates

Interested candidates should email their resume to Mike.Brown@pahc.com.