Sr Poultry Intestinal Health Nutritionist

Location

Athens, GA - Field Based Role

The Sr. Poultry Intestinal Health Nutritionist serves as a key technical authority in optimizing gastrointestinal health and performance in poultry production systems. This role provides advanced scientific, technical, and field support focused on the prevention and control of enteric diseases, with particular emphasis on Eimeria species, coccidiosis management, and integrated intestinal health strategies.

The position combines expertise in feed additives, anticoccidial programs, and vaccine-based solutions to deliver data-driven recommendations that enhance bird performance, support antimicrobial reduction initiatives, and improve customer outcomes.

Acting as a subject matter expert, the individual collaborates cross-functionally and works closely with the Vaccination Services Equipment Group, Ceva veterinary and technical managers, commercial sales and marketing teams, and US poultry customers to troubleshoot issues, resolve problems, and validate effective intestinal health programs across diverse production systems.

• Ensure product leadership by creating a high internal and external level of confidence in the Ceva products utilized for preventive veterinary medicine. Implement the local customer plan based on the national strategy and guidelines, work in the field with customers, implement effective market support, follow product deployment, and generate evidence on product success. Review and update the plan of every customer during monthly meetings with teams and managers.
  
  Collaborate on the conception of technical articles.
• Focus on continuous improvement with customers’ needs and relationships by organizing regular visits, events, or calls with key customers. Collaborate with all local teams to ensure execution of the plan.
• Provide customer guidance, advisory support, and troubleshooting by ensuring responsive, impactful, and actionable field visits. Provide professional consultation and communication daily, weekly, or monthly based on customer needs and requests.
• Train, educate, and manage knowledge by attending continuous training delivered by corporate, congress, seminars and events focused on preventive veterinary medicine, disease and Ceva products. Self‑train in new technical updates and share knowledge with the veterinary services team. Develop training on technical activities to share knowledge with customers. Train local Ceva team members to support customers.
• Collect and report customer feedback, including data results, success stories, and emerging issues, by monitoring product performance and collecting, analyzing samples. Share findings with customers and maintain records. Provide continuous updates to the manager on achievements, problems, and customer developments. Communicate activity protocols and trial results to colleagues.
• Manage scientific expertise and professional networks by maintaining relationships with animal health institutes, laboratories, universities, key opinion leaders, and equipment suppliers. Provide diagnostic and expert support as needed.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for coccidiosis and intestinal health for the U.S. technical and support teams.

• Shape solutions out of complexity.
• Client focus.
• Collaborating with empathy.
• Engage and develop.
• Drive ambition and accountability.
• Influence others.

• Scientific trials and knowledge management:
  Ability to conduct trials and collect data in a scientific method.
• Scientific approach and expertise:
  Ability to apply basic scientific knowledge of poultry diseases and product knowledge to follow protocols and understand the rationale for field trials.
• Customer knowledge and approach:
  Understanding the customer’s current situation and potential challenges, with the ability to work collaboratively to identify and address underlying issues.
• Ability to communicate and convince:
  Understand, share, and support the vision and knowledge with existing partners and internal teams ensuring delivery of key messages. Ensure knowledge management on the domain expertise.
• Organization and project…