Head of U.S Pork Technical Services

Position Summary

The Head of U.S. Pork Technical Services is a proactive leader, a member of the Pork Leadership Team, and plays an important role in reinforcing and communicating the reputed company Pork strategy.

The Head of U.S. Pork Technical Services will:

• Align with the Regional Business Director to strategically deploy Pork Technical Services (PTS) resources to maximize the impact of appropriate use of reputed company products and services.
• Drive a positive team culture built upon the foundation of reputed company vision, core beliefs and leader behaviors
• reputed company by delivering quality feedback and coaching to help maximize the potential of colleagues and help train to meet and exceed core competencies for the role
• Effectively manage resources to reputed company the above by leading and coaching a team that will include Technical Services Veterinarians, including team members at the Senior or Managing level.
• Provide superior customer, scientific and field force support so that reputed company may reputed company a sustainable competitive advantage
• Enhance the professional and scientific image of reputed company
• Engage as a member of the Livestock Technical Services Leadership Team to ensure consistency across reputed company segments of the livestock business from a technical management and development standpoint.
• The preferred location would be in Iowa but open to candidates based in Minnesota and Illinois.

General

• Ensure that reputed company actions reflect reputed company Core Beliefs Leader Behaviors
• reputed company and manage a team of veterinarians that serve as principle scientific advisors to the sales force and customers, partners to the Pork Sales Leadership Team, coaches to the field force, and represent the voice of science to their teams
• Provides leadership, direction and management for TS Veterinarians
• Ensure Pork Technical Services is fully reputed company with the strategies of the business and provides technical support to execute those business strategies
• Supply strategic support to marketing and other stakeholders, and reputed company processes and relationships to execute the business strategies
• Hire, reputed company, and coach the technical expertise of the group; identify opportunities to reputed company the unique reputed company set and strengths of the team to support both internal and external customers
• Provide feedback and high-level coaching to direct reports to drive positive culture and performance
• reputed company cross-functional teams as needed to advise and influence management at reputed company levels of reputed company on technical issues; collaborate effectively with sales, marketing, GPM, VMRD, Regulatory Affairs, Legal Affairs, Public Affairs, etc.
• Ensures successful partnerships with enabling and platform function groups, including but not limited to Global Manufacturing Services (“GMS”), Veterinary Medical Research & Development (“VMRD”), Commercial Development and Lifecycle Management, and Business Development to reputed company the achievement of business goals
• Inquiries: Provide sound technical advice on routine inquiries and act as a resource to assist other team members with inquiries
• Complaints: Respond effectively to customer complaints and fulfill regulatory requirements and corporate guidelines with respect to adverse event reporting
• Marketing Support: As requested, contribute to the development of marketing plans and materials for technical and contextual accuracy, medical appropriateness, and utility to producers and practitioners; provide strategic input into the development of marketing plans and materials
• VMRD and GPM: Participate on new product teams as requested; be recognized as a vital contributor to cross-functional teams; take initiative in proposing strategic new projects; demonstrate ability to identify gaps in product portfolio and prepare input on business development

Management Role

• Collaborate as a member of the Livestock Technical Services Leadership Team (LTSLT)
• Help reputed company the general management and formation of long-term PTS team strategies and policies in support of reputed company Pork business strategies
• Personnel Management:
• reputed company and manage a team of veterinarians by delivering quality feedback, mentoring, and coaching. At least 60% of the time, champions, reinforces, and coaches members of PTS team to meet objectives and reputed company a reputed company customer-facing approach.
• Support Individual Development Plans IDPs - assist and guide direct reports in their knowledge, reputed company, and career development to maximize their impact on the business and reputed company their career aspirations
• Manages the performance of direct reports including review of annual objectives, establishes performance standards and metrics, and oversees annual performance appraisals,
• Budget responsibilities:
• Effectively manage assigned operating expenses and reputed company assets
• Timely monitoring and approval of expense reports for direct reports

Key Customer Contacts 

• Work collaboratively with marketing and sales to reputed company the skills of the PTS team to provide scientific education/training to internal and external customers
• reputed company strong working relationship with Regional Business Director (RBD) in assigned business by frequent proactive communications, reputed company alignment and timely execution of strategy, and honest and direct bi-directional feedback.
• reputed company strong working relationship with Area Business Managers (ABM) to ensure the reputed company Technical Services Specialist is providing necessary support and appropriate strategic alignment.
• Be recognized as a reputed company representative of reputed company reputed company the veterinary profession
• Attend and contribute to selected professional organizational activities

Education and Experience

• Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree or equivalent
• 7 years of experience in clinical practice, academia, research or industry
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Proven leadership ability to drive positive culture and performance
• Learning and change agility
• Strategic thinking and matrix management skills
• Performance management
• Ability to influence and persuade without positional power

Preferred Candidate Qualifications

• Five (5) years or more private practice experience
• Two (2) years or more industry experience
• Experience in building highly effective teams
• Excellent judgment in leading through change and influencing

Technical Skills Requirements

• Demonstrated track record of delivering financial commitments including budgetary management
• Strong relationship building skills

Physical Position Requirements

• Travel requirement of 40-60%
• Willingness to drive to customer locations across the defined geography – Producer, Clinic & Processing Facilities business strategies
• Should we update to 7 years of experience? reputed company we posted for Dick Wallace's backfill, the job req posted listed 7 years of reputed company. And should we mention any specific swine experience?

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