Manager of Monogastric Nutrition

Explore career opportunities across animal health, nutrition, and live production.

Bring your technical credibility, curiosity, and abilities to the team. You’ll help nutritional consultants put good ideas to work. Established, growing AHN company seeks a Nutrition Support Manager to provide nutritional, technical, and product support to its consulting teams in the Upper Midwest.

• Learn about and implement new nutritional technologies.
• Have the opportunity to drive meaningful change rather than simply maintain existing programs.
• Support a growing consulting team.
• Work with an established and respected company.
• Help shape how new products and technologies are introduced to customers.
• Combine technical nutrition work with customer and field involvement.
• Have a reasonable and predictable travel schedule.
• Have the ability to influence consultants, customers, products, and business growth across two states.

Sales and Technical Support —40%

• Provide sales and technical support to the nutrition consultants in the field.
• Help consultants evaluate nutritional challenges and develop practical recommendations.
• Assist with customer questions, product positioning, ration performance, and technical problem-solving.
• Participate in customer meetings when deeper nutritional or technical expertise isneeded.
• Help the consulting team communicate technical information clearly and confidently.
• Overseeallration formulation
• Oversee product and program creation for manufacturing
• Interact with Nutrition vendors
• Learn/Use various formulation software programs
• Work with team on all product and program field trials and dissemination of data

New Product Integration — 20%

• Develop and integrate new products and programs into the consultants’ toolkit.
• Educate consultants on product applications, benefits, positioning, and appropriate use.
• Help identify customers and situations where these products can provide value.
• Work across teams to improve adoption and create consistency in how products are presented.

New Products, Programs and Technologies — 20%

• Identify promising new products, technologies, and nutritional concepts.
• Evaluate their potential value to customers and the consulting team.
• Lead the rollout of approved products and technologies to the teams in the Upper Midwest.
• Develop training, technical materials, and implementation plans.
• Help consultants understand not only what is new, but how to use it effectively.
• Gather feedback from the field and recommend adjustments when needed.

Ration Formulation —20%

• Formulate rations for half the sales force, and serve as the backup formulator for the rest
• Work with consultants to ensure rations reflect customer goals, available ingredients, production needs, and economic considerations.

• Approximately one to two overnights per week.
• One quarterly week of travel to Montana
• Travel will primarily support consultants, customers, training, and product implementation.
• Attend and represent the company at industry meetings

• Master’s degree or higher in swine nutrition, monogastric nutrition, animal nutrition, or related field.
• Strong technical knowledge of swine nutrition and ration formulation.
• Strong customer-facing and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate technical information into practical recommendations.
• Stand-up presentation skills and experience
• Strong teamwork and relationship-building skills.
• Ability to work effectively with consultants,salesreps, customers, formulators, and company leadership.
• Comfortable working independently from a home office.
• Ability and willingness to travel overnight as described.
• Strong organizational, communication, and follow-through skills.