Ruminant Technical Advisor – DACH, Benelux & Nordics

Overview Welcome diversity and apply as you are! At Adisseo, we cherish the value of diversity whatever it may be. By joining Adisseo, you will join committed people who make the difference every day to contribute to this challenge. By joining Adisseo, you will integrate a dynamic international environment. By joining Adisseo, you will discover a world full of opportunities for every stage of your career by being actor to your professional journey. Missions of the job As a Ruminant Technical Advisor, you will educate the market on the virtues of AA balancing and the practical AA formulation strategies to maximize value to the dairy producer, the feed and premix companies. You will provide technical support to all products in Adisseo’s ruminant portfolio. This includes developing strategies to promote and expand the use of current products, contribute to the technical positioning, and realization of technical marketing documents and the technical development of new market niches for existing products. While carrying out your job, you represent Adisseo to the ruminant scientific and technical authorities and make presentations at conferences in the geographic area covered. ResponsibilitiesTasks

• Provide technical support to feed customers or prescribers to develop sales of the Ruminant Product Portfolio in coordination with Ruminant Technical Sales Managers.
• Be an expert in amino acid formulation for Ruminants.
• Contribute to technical positioning of products and to technical marketing documents.
• Make presentations at professional and customer conferences and contribute to writing technical articles for the popular press.
• Manage field trials, some directly and some in support of TSMs.
• Keep Ruminant Director abreast of relevant scientific information impacting the market.

QualificationsRequirements for the job

• Practical knowledge/work experience of ruminant production systems.
• Expertise in amino acid formulation for ruminants.
• Experience in selling a technical product or process.
• Thorough knowledge of the ruminant nutrition business in the DACH, Benelux & Nordics territory.
• Professional knowledge of amino acid balancing and at least one formulation software for ruminants (INRA, DVE, CNCPS, NRC, customer company software, etc.)

Skills

• Fluency in German and English language (both speaking and writing). Knowledge of any additional local language is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Work in matrix organization and network.
• Ability to work independently and be results driven.
• Ability to work well in both a team environment and autonomously.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Advanced computer skills, comfortable with using statistical packages such as SAS.
• Advanced user of MS Office tools like MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.

Education

• PhD. or Master’s Degree in Dairy Science, Metabolism, Physiology or related subject

What We Offer

• A permanent, full-time job, home-office based in Germany.
• A great opportunity to learn new things and to gain more experience in the ruminant sales business.
• A challenging position, in a great team.
• An attractive salary package with fringe benefits.
• Relevant on-the-job training with an extensive onboarding program.
• Part of a worldwide leader company in animal nutrition with a great focus in sustainability.