Purpose of the job: The role is responsible for leading, driving and aligning poultry activities across the company, including developing innovative nutritional solutions to the poultry portfolio. The role works closely with the customers to ensure the best and most efficient solutions. In addition, the role is responsible for developing the commercial and technical strategy for poultry activities in the company and for functionally leading the group of poultry specialists towards shared strategic goals.
Key responsibilities:
- Possesses in-depth knowledge within poultry and follows the market development closely
- Sets the direction and develops a global business plan for poultry activities across the company and ensures that it is aligned with regional CEOs
- Drives the poultry activities to the next level of growth
- Is responsible for budgeting with respect to poultry sales coordinated with regional CEOs
- Is responsible for driving processes related to development of innovative customized feed solutions within poultry across different regions, including providing advice and technical support to customers
- Ensures a strong marketing and branding strategy for poultry aligned with the particularities of regional markets to strengthen brand presence globally (and aligned with the marketing department)
- Seeks out and maintains key accounts by supporting the sales team and the regional CEOs
- Ensures a streamlined customer approach and further portfolio introduction and development in collaboration with technical experts
- Organizes and provides training and coaching of poultry specialists and the sales team across all companies with the purpose of ensuring the right level of knowledge to penetrate the poultry market globally
- Builds up a successful poultry team in the Group
- Develops high levels of expertise and ensures a leading position as poultry specialists to provide maximum commercial return on investment
- Proactively leads and coordinates a poultry group, including collecting experiences and providing input and knowledge to support poultry activities and sales across all companies
Knowledge and experience:
- Agronomist/Agricultural Engineer, Veterinarian, Animal Nutrition, Animal Science or comparable education
- Specialist knowledge related to poultry activities
- Thorough understanding of the poultry market globally, including a successful track record within the market
- Very good knowledge of English
