Technical Consultant - Poultry

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

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:


* 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 & Food Safety in Layers & Broilers, and work 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.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibility for the Technical Consultant, Poultry will be to lead, transform and elevate the Food Safety portfolio strategy and technically support the wider portfolio (including anticoccidials, de-wormers and antibiotics).

This will include internal and external technical leadership, particularly of the Food Safety(Vaccine) brands sales, customer education and training of the commercial team.

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