Affinity Agriculture Affinity Executive Search – Agricultural Portal

Technical Services Specialist-Swine or Poultry

Location: Open, prefer Eastern US

Salary: $125,000 – $160,000

Qualifications:

Minimum requirements:

- Ph.D. in Animal Nutrition (poultry/swine-or equivalent)

- 10 years of commercial experience

- Proactive problem-solving skills

- Ability to created long-term relationships

- Knowledge of feed and livestock industries

- Proficient in Microsoft programs

- Willing to work from home and travel

Job Description:

Major Ag Employer seeking a Technical Services Specialist to provide proactive poultry and swine nutritional solution and support services to it s growing customer base, and additionally develop and maintain current business. Responsibilities include providing technical support for poultry and swine integrators and feed manufacturers. Develop and maintain relationships with customers and prospects, participate in setting objects and executing plans for sales and marketing, define and implement sales strategies, manage product evaluations, maintain key business / technical information for customers, understand threats, market intelligence and pricing, participate in development, give feedback, and provide support for product registration. Will primarily service the US marketplace with occasional international travel. Need to understand all aspects of poultry and swine production with special expertise in phytase and NSPase additives research design principles, how to apply research production settings, basic marketing and selling techniques, statistical analysis concepts, and basic business principles, ability to understand customer needs, self-motivated, and have excellent selling and negotiation skills.

Layer and Turkey Sales Manager

Location: Open, prefer Eastern US

Salary: $100,000 – $135,000

Benefits: Excellent Benefit Package

Qualifications:

Minimum requirements:

`Degree in Animal or Poultry Nutrition or Science or equivalent professional experience

`10+ years of professional experience in poultry production industry with direct poultry sales and marketing

Job Description:

Major Ag Employer seeking a proven Sales Manager to represent the company to potential commercial layer and turkey customers, may include broilers, ducks, and feed companies, to develop new sales opportunities and to provide technical sales support to those customers. Responsibilities include: Calling on customers and prospects, provide technical sales information, data and support to customers, maintain up-to-date prospect and customer reporting, follow up to assure the order-delivery-collection segments, attend sales and company meetings, and attend industry functions.

Major producer of micro feed ingredients, vitamin and mineral premixes and feed additives seeks experienced sales professional to expand their poultry business. 

Successful candidates will live in the upper midwest and office in their homes.

Reasons why the right candidate will love this job

• Company has great reputation and is a market leader
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Company truly committed to meeting customer needs
• Great tools are used to help you service the customer with the latest technology
• Company is focused on the poultry business
• You will have input on how to market products to potential customers
• Company has superior technical support
• Reasonable travel: 2-3 nights/week
• Position provides you to apply your poultry production experience in a consultative way to major customers
• Base + commissions + auto
• Office in your home

Responsibilities
 

• 75%  – new client development and then managing these accounts
• 25% – servicing existing customers
• Customers are large layer, broiler or turkey operations

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in a sales role selling in the poultry business
• Track record of success in new customer development
• Strong prospecting skills
• Must thrive in a team environment
• Must have practical experience in poultry production
• General understanding of poultry nutrition
• BS degree in applicable field
• Top candidates will have experience selling feed ingredients, vaccines, genetics, pre-mixes or similar products

Salary: $60,000.00 – $100,000.00

Established animal nutrition company seeks Poultry Nutritionist to create feed programs, balance rations, deal with regulatory affairs, produce/review feed tags, feed testing and provide technical support to the sales force.  In this role you will support other species as well as work with poultry.

10 Reasons why this is a great job for the right person

• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Variety of tasks and people
• Work in the office and in the field
• Work with a variety of species
• Solve on-farm problems with experienced sales staff
• Collaborative environment with experienced team of nutritionists
• Apply knowledge in real world practical settings
• Growing company provides additional responsibilities for this role in future
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits package with financially solid company

Qualifications

• Minimum MS degree in animal nutrition, dairy science, monogastric nutrition or poultry
• Ability to balance rations
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Passion for livestock & feeds
• Enthusiastic energy level

Only candidates living in (or having strong ties to) Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Indiana or Kentucky will be considered for this opportunity.

Keywords: monogastric, ruminant, swine, pigs, equine, dairy, beef, animal, nutrition

Salary: $45,000.00 – $90,000.00

Established animal nutrition company seeks Livestock Nutritionist to create feed programs, balance rations, deal with regulatory affairs, produce/review feed tags, feed testing and provide technical support to the sales force.

10 Reasons why this is a great job for the right person

• Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
• Variety of tasks and people
• Work in the office and in the field
• Work with a variety of species
• Solve on-farm problems with experienced sales staff
• Collaborative environment with experienced team of nutritionists
• Apply knowledge in real world practical settings
• Growing company provides additional responsibilities for this role in future
• Competitive salary
• Excellent benefits package with financially solid company

Qualifications

• Minimum MS degree in animal nutrition, dairy science, monogastric nutrition or poultry
• Ability to balance rations
• Excellent verbal communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Passion for livestock & feeds
• Enthusiastic energy level

Only candidates living in (or having strong ties to) Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia, Indiana or Kentucky will be considered for this opportunity.

Keywords: monogastric, ruminant, swine, pigs, equine, dairy, beef, animal, nutrition

Salary: $45,000.00 – $90,000.00

Major producer of micro feed ingredients, vitamin and mineral premixes and feed additives seeks experienced sales professional to expand their poultry business. 

Successful candidates will live in the upper midwest and office in their homes.

Reasons why the right candidate will love this job

• Company has great reputation and is a market leader
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Company truly committed to meeting customer needs
• Great tools are used to help you service the customer with the latest technology
• Company is focused on the poultry business
• You will have input on how to market products to potential customers
• Company has superior technical support
• Reasonable travel: 2-3 nights/week
• Position provides you to apply your poultry production experience in a consultative way to major customers
• Base + commissions + auto
• Office in your home

Responsibilities
 

• 75%  – new client development and then managing these accounts
• 25% – servicing existing customers
• Customers are large layer, broiler or turkey operations

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in a sales role selling in the poultry business
• Track record of success in new customer development
• Strong prospecting skills
• Must thrive in a team environment
• Must have practical experience in poultry production
• General understanding of poultry nutrition
• BS degree in applicable field
• Top candidates will have experience selling feed ingredients, vaccines, genetics, pre-mixes or similar products

Salary: $60,000.00 – $100,000.00

One of the top four swine producers in the United States is seeking to improve their management team. They are seeking a skilled agri-business professional with live production experience and superior people management skills to provide consistent team guidance. The company currently manages over 155,000 head of sows predominantly in the State of Iowa. Positions are located in North Central Iowa

To Be Considered For This Role:

• You must have a minimum of 3 years of people management skills in a Swine Live Production operation with the focus being on team management, training & development, coaching & mentoring, organization and motivation of people. Live production would ideally be in a swine operation, but will also consider people out of poultry, beef cattle or dairy. Want the people skills.
• You must have experience managing all aspect of a live production operation including General Animal Husbandry, Proper Production Practices, Safety & Bio-Security, Nutrition, Treatment & Vaccination, Animal Flow, Environmental & Waste Management protocols and record keeping.
• Ideal experience will include proficiency in all aspects of the swine operation.

Management: You will use your demonstrated people management skills to train, develop, mentor and guide your team with the use of proven motivation and organizational skills to achieve company productivity goals. Additionally you will work in collaboration with site leadership to effectively manage all the employees and farm production while being responsible for enforcing safety protocols, coordinate maintenance and nutrient management.

Reasons Why this is a Great Job for the Right Person:

• Company is one of the top four swine producers in the United States
• Company has the resources and passion to be a leader in the swine industry
• Opportunities for professional advancement
• Employee Friendly Company

Salary: $45,000.00 – $48,000.00

Major producer of micro feed ingredients, vitamin and mineral premixes and feed additives seeks experienced sales professional to expand their poultry business. 

Successful candidates will live in the upper midwest and office in their homes.

Reasons why the right candidate will love this job

• Company has great reputation and is a market leader
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Company truly committed to meeting customer needs
• Great tools are used to help you service the customer with the latest technology
• Company is focused on the poultry business
• You will have input on how to market products to potential customers
• Company has superior technical support
• Reasonable travel: 2-3 nights/week
• Position provides you to apply your poultry production experience in a consultative way to major customers
• Base + commissions + auto
• Office in your home

Responsibilities
 

• 75%  – new client development and then managing these accounts
• 25% – servicing existing customers
• Customers are large layer, broiler or turkey operations

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in a sales role selling in the poultry business
• Track record of success in new customer development
• Strong prospecting skills
• Must thrive in a team environment
• Must have practical experience in poultry production
• General understanding of poultry nutrition
• BS degree in applicable field
• Top candidates will have experience selling feed ingredients, vaccines, genetics, pre-mixes or similar products

Salary: $60,000.00 – $100,000.00

Major producer of micro feed ingredients, vitamin and mineral premixes and feed additives seeks experienced sales professional to expand their poultry business. 

Successful candidates will live in the upper midwest and office in their homes.

Reasons why the right candidate will love this job

• Company has great reputation and is a market leader
• Entrepreneurial environment
• Company truly committed to meeting customer needs
• Great tools are used to help you service the customer with the latest technology
• Company is focused on the poultry business
• You will have input on how to market products to potential customers
• Company has superior technical support
• Reasonable travel: 2-3 nights/week
• Position provides you to apply your poultry production experience in a consultative way to major customers
• Base + commissions + auto
• Office in your home

Responsibilities
 

• 75%  – new client development and then managing these accounts
• 25% – servicing existing customers
• Customers are large layer, broiler or turkey operations

Qualifications

• 3 years experience in a sales role selling in the poultry business
• Track record of success in new customer development
• Strong prospecting skills
• Must thrive in a team environment
• Must have practical experience in poultry production
• General understanding of poultry nutrition
• BS degree in applicable field
• Top candidates will have experience selling feed ingredients, vaccines, genetics, pre-mixes or similar products

Salary: $60,000.00 – $100,000.00

If you like living in a rural area, are community oriented and are looking for a company that can boast about the tenure of their people – if you have a strong background in quality assurance and food safety – then you need to consider this very stable, environmentally sound, well established, growth oriented and profitable company that is seeking to add an Assistant Quality Assurance Manager to the staff of one of the top pork producers in the United States.

This is located at their main processing facility in Guymon, OK – 2400 Employees
To be considered for this Role:

• You must have a BS degree in a food science/technology related field and a minimum of 2 years of quality assurance/food safety role is a food processing company – ideally in fresh meat (not poultry).
• You must have strong background in & knowledge of food quality & safety protocols including: HACCP, USDA, FDA, GMP’s, SSOP’s, Food Safety Audits, Labeling & Microtesting. Any experience in an R&D role would be ideal.
• You must have expereince working with animal health and animal welfare issses.

Compliance: Reporting to the Quality Assurance Manager – you will be responsible for delivery of food safety, quality assurance, R&D Products & services to include adhering to company policies & procedures; regulatory compliance with USDA & FDA, customer audits, GMP, ATP Testing SSOP’s & sanitation, pest control as well as HACCP development & training. Additionally, you will ensure that all personnel comply with animal health and welfare protocols from receiving to slaughter.

Communication: Your strength in quality protocols will allow you to develop and perform training programs in the areas of HACCP, Food Safety, Q.A. policies & procedures, along with compliance of USDA, Customer & management topics. You will also work closely with state & Federal regulatory agencies. Your communication skills should range from the hourly work force to senior executives – with any experience & knowledge of Spanish being ideal.

Reasons Why this is a Great Job for the Right Person:

• One of the top pork producing company’s in the United States – with strong employee tenure.
• Very well established and financially strong company
• Food group is the Largest Division in the company
• Environmentally sound operations
• Growth company that is adding jobs
• Opportunities for persona l & professional growth
• Competitive salary, bonus, benefits & relocation assistance

Salary: $65,000.00 – $70,000.00