Feedlot Nutrition Consultant & Technical Specialist - Jobs in Lethbridge County, AB

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Feedlot Nutrition Consultant & Technical SpecialistYou will love being a part of our team!You will work with people who are passionate about their jobs and take initiative; people who want to do their best every single day; people who care deeply about their customers and deliver top-quality service. You’ll work with a team of people who “do the right thing”. You’ll have continuous interactions with our customers to ensure you build and foster a healthy relationship. You’ll be a part of an entire organization that will never be satisfied with the status quo and will always be looking for ways to improve and be more efficient while taking care of the customer.The RoleThe Feedlot Nutrition Consultant & Technical Specialist is responsible to provide nutritional advice, management solutions and service support to our progressive feedlot customers. This role is accountable for the growth and management of individual customer accounts while providing strong technical support to the Bullseye consultant team.Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Work directly with progressive feedlot and large cow/calf operations to provide leading-edge, customized nutritional solutions and value-based management services. You are the consultant.
• Using a consultative selling process, manage direct accounts so that you the number one value contributor to each customers’ business
• Create and implement initiatives to drive the development of new business through exclusive nutritional and service offerings
• Retain current technically in order to understand the context of the evolving fields of beef nutritional research, management practices, applications and approaches
• Apply working knowledge of commercial feedlot practices, forage quality/management, beef growth enhancing technologies (i.e. implants, feed additives, etc.) to facilitate the development and communication of customers’ annual business plans/strategies
• Conduct feedlot audits, read feed bunks, diagnose existing challenges, evaluate feedlot close-out and carcass data, and suggest proactive options to improve feedlot performance
• Be prepared to lead individual field-based projects which bring value and innovation to customers
• Prepare, support and present technical and management information to a broad range of audiences (i.e. Bullseye consultants, producers and industry participates).
• Represent the Bullseye brand in a professional manner at industry trade shows, conferences and scientific meetings.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other industry participants including veterinarians, financial institutions, feed additive suppliers and pharmaceutical manufacturers
• Focus on task completion and achieving sales goals/targets
• Attend Bullseye team L10 meetings
• Passionate about the Bullseye vision of “Happy Customers” while using the company’s core values of “Do the Right Thing”, “Keep it Simple” and “Never Satisfied”.

Skills & Experience Required

• Positive attitude with outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to create satisfied internal and external customers
• Strong verbal communication skills with the flexibility, diplomacy and adaptability to work with various personality types
• Advanced understanding of ruminant nutrition and beef management practices with an ability to advance these skills through a continuous learning process
• Positive, self-motivated and goal-oriented team player who is open to learning, challenging and improving
• Working knowledge of forage and forage production systems
• Strong time management and organizational skills
• Display honesty, integrity and a strong sense of ethics in all decisions and actions
• Possess the consultative selling skills required to sell and service beef producers
• Resourceful with strategic and analytical capabilities (knowledge of SAS and/or JMP would be beneficial)
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to establish/maintain effective relationships with coworkers and customers
• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of the Bullseye team; you believe in making others more successful
• Flexible, adaptable, and able to thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment

Qualifications include

• Background in the Canadian beef industry, including experience in the feedlot segment
• Cow/calf and feedlot industry experience essential
• Working knowledge of the Canadian/North American beef processing industry beneficial (general understanding of meat product slaughtering and processing
• Master’s degree or PhD in ruminant nutrition with a beef production focus or BSc with feedlot sales, nutrition and management experience
• Agricultural sales experience would be beneficial
• Beef ration balancing expertise with the ability to adjust ration recommendations accordingly
• Ability to understand, evaluate and analyze feedlot closeout data (liveweight and carcass) and knowledge of how to utilize this data to identify area of improvement
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office applications

Our current success!Over the last 15 years, More Than Just Feed (Nutrisource) has been experiencing rapid growth as an up-and-coming contender in the feed industry. Our focus is to be a leading company in the modernization of an industry that is resistant to change. We are a Canadian owned, Alberta based, dairy nutrition company that provides specialized products and consulting services to western Canadian dairy farmers. We get to know the specific needs of each More Than Just Feed customer, so we can recommend and help put into place a customized, operation-specific action plan that’s right for each producer and his or her operation. We are looking for an enthusiastic team member who will be a technical leader in the field, keeping our customers loyal and happy.Quick Apply

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