[Hiring] Technical Director @Iluma Alliance

Role Description

We are currently seeking a Technical Director (North America) to support our global technical team to drive this agenda.

Position Overview:

• Enhance the value proposition by providing excellence in technical expertise and education.
• Assist key growth markets to achieve budgeted sales volume, margin & contribution through the delivery of technical services to Anitox customers and mentoring of the sales team in technical matters.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop/maintain key customer relationships (veterinarian/nutritionists) and lead strategic initiatives with key industry influencers/organizations, key opinion leaders, research institutions, and national and regional industry associations.
• Provide technical support to sales in virtual and face-to-face customer meetings.
• Deliver technical presentations at targeted industry/key prospect/customer meetings.
• Develop technical information (bulletins, papers, etc.) to advance our value proposition within the industry.
• Maintain and produce technical pieces for product support.
• Identify and develop/lead plans to fill value gaps via new 3rd party research, complimentary products, internal research, and/or technical papers.
• Actively participate in industry/professional associations.
• Coordinate with Marketing on Campaign/Document messaging.
• Fully utilize Salesforce CRM tool to update Technical dashboard and document customer/prospect/key influencer interactions.
• Determine and facilitate/deliver necessary training across the sales team.
• Writing of technical reports.
• Writing of protocols for field trials.
• Analysis & organization of data from trials.

Qualifications

• MSc in poultry science/animal science or DVM.
• 5+ years of experience in the poultry/swine industry, along with practical knowledge of the poultry industry, its structure and key influencers.
• Demonstrated success in a technical service role introducing new products and concepts to targeted customers and/or markets in conjunction with sales and marketing.
• Ability to provide exceptional customer service to internal and external customers, and to work in cross-functional teams to achieve customer and product objectives.
• Strong technical/scientific background, capable of writing, executing, analyzing, and presenting protocol results for research or sales support purposes.
• Well-organized and an effective planner in the use of resources, while demonstrating flexibility and responsiveness as market needs dictate.
• Excellent people and communication skills.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Benefits

• The opportunity to influence the Technical direction of the organization and take part in the development of robust modern solutions to fight bacterial and viral infections in poultry.
• A challenging position within a high-potential agri-tech company.
• An attractive compensation package in line with the position’s responsibilities and your experience plus generous benefits.
• Work from Home (when not travelling).