Global Technical Manager Gut Health Latam

**What are your key accountabilities?**
- Develop the 5 years’ and yearly marketing plan of the defined program and quarterly monitoring of implementation and development;
- Define, develop and implement the technical support for the defined Territory and market segments;
- Achieve targets according budgets and in line with a 5 years’ strategic plan;
- Provide technical training to the technical and sales force and TN distribution channels;
- Develop a collaborative Key account strategy with the Operational companies in the focus markets;
- Define together with the product manager the price strategy and price setting of the related program offering;
- Manage the R&D coordination of products and services together with the Product Manager;
- Develop the necessary support required for business expansion;
- Maintain effective communication to ensure relevant program messaging.
**What we offer?**
As Nutreco our mission is ‘feeding the future’. In a world with limited natural resources, our ambition is to meet the rising food needs of a growing world population in a sustainable manner. Working for Nutreco means a fantastic position in an international working environment with lots of development opportunities.
**We can you offer?**
- Challenging work on complex and diverse topics;
- The opportunity to grow professionally, work flexible hours and lot of room to grow both personally and professionally;
- An informal multi-cultural working environment with great colleagues;
- No-nonsense, pragmatic, flat organization, with direct reporting lines;
- Belonging to the SHV Family with more than 60.000 employees.
**What else is in it for you?**
- We offer you a fulltime position, 40 hours per week.
- Ideal location would be a country in LATAM region, but Amersfoort (NL) could also be considered.
- Your position will be classified in a Nutreco Hay scale;
- Annual holidays and benefits in line with actual Nutreco practice in the country.
- Attractive salary based on skills and experience -paid in 12 monthly payments
- plus Holiday allowance;
- A performance contract is part of the package.
**What we ask?**
A business manager with deep technical knowledge in gut health who is creative, a problem solver and a team player. Someone who is capable of working with cross-functional teams. We encourage passionate, hardworking and sincere individuals, who would like to work in a professional and progressive environment. Effective communication and relationship building skills, internally with support functions, such as sales, R&D, Procurement, Species Councils, QAQC, Production, Logistics, Registrations, and externally with key customers and industry stakeholders. Besides that, your personality should be conductive to being an excellent business partner, critical yet constructive co-worker and a persuasive colleague.
**What you bring?**
- Master degree in veterinary science or animal sciences;
- Min. 3+ years of experience in animal pharma, animal nutrition or feed additives companies in a technical commercial role where you have brought feed additives, gut health or related solutions (e.g. vaccination programs) to market;
- Business drive and thorough experience and understanding;
- Excellent training skills and ability to create and deliver compelling presentations, able to write technical reports, write trial protocols, interpret trial results, calculate the economic benefits and demonstrate value for the customer;
- Strong listening skills to understand customer needs and influencing skills to achieve business objectives;
- Fluent in English (writing and speaking) is mandatory, Portuguese and Spanish would be highly appreciated;
- Willing to undertake local and international travel 50%.

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