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Your Role: Poultry & Nutritional Health (NH) Associate KAM
The Poultry & Nutritional Health (NH) Associate KAM must demonstrate leadership skills, strategic thinking, and a growth mindset, combined with strong technical and commercial expertise.
The role is primarily focused on demand creation while securing sales by delivering and demonstrating the value of Elanco’s poultry and NH portfolio (poultry & swine) to key accounts.
The Associate KAM initially supports and progressively manages the NH portfolio within key poultry and swine producers through effective execution of activities that drive sales and account planning, ensuring communication aligned with Elanco marketing, strategic account plans, and commercial objectives.
The position also involves identifying and scouting new NH portfolio opportunities, in collaboration with the INTL team or at the local level, and promoting the use of NH solutions to support sustainability goals across the full value chain - from production to end-user distribution. Key customer contacts include nutritionists, veterinarians, producers, and channel partners such as pre-mixers.
The Poultry & Nutritional Health (NH) Associate KAM is a key member of the affiliate Poultry Team and supports NH products across Farm Animal species. The role progressively assumes responsibility for providing NH expertise to both customers and the Elanco commercial team, leveraging technical knowledge to drive growth by connecting technical solutions with commercial opportunities, and ensuring NH’s long-term profitability and sustainable growth.
The key objectives of the Poultry & Nutritional Health (NH) Associate KAM are:
To accelerate NH growth through internal capabilities and expertise development, boosting
Elanco leadership within this area, including the new trends on sustainability,
To support and coordinate NH new launches, and new product development,
To contribute to achieving the annual poultry sales targets,
To reinforce, maintain and grow relationships with key NH internal and external stakeholders,
To provide internal and external NH Technical Support,
To manage NH Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)
Your Responsibilities:
Progressively become the source of authority with targeted accounts and continuously build the NH business acumen,
Develop analysis and interpretation of customer´s information and data that can influence decision making process, including sustainability area and how Elanco NH products can improve productivity,
Train customer’s feed mill nutrition staffs,
Increase technical capabilities to be recognized by customers as value added partner,
Progressively develop high business relationships with NH key decision makers and key opinion leaders,
Be the single matter expert (SME) for technical questions related to Elanco NH portfolio,
Join forces with sales and marketing to deliver materials, product differentiation and value beyond product tools,
Stakeholder management and network creation to promote usage of NH and achieve sustainability goals: KOLs, Associations and CPG companies (clients of our clients),
Manage microbiome tools and processes to support NH brands,
Always be in compliance with technical promotion materials, clinical trials and full value experiences (FVE) execution,
Participate in relevant industry events with publications and presentations,
Be an active member of the Elanco NH community,
Provide technical comparison and market insights on competition,
Scout for potential new NH alliances or distribution opportunities at local or Int’l level.
What You Need to Succeed (minimum qualifications):
Higher education in veterinary medicine, animal science, animal production and/or agronomy,
Minimum 2 years related experience within the intensive animal production industry,
Detailed knowledge of relevant competitor products and strategies and distribution channels,
Adequate commercial & selling skills,
Strong leadership and interpersonal skills,
Strong collaborating approach and teamworking skills
Thorough understanding of poultry and monogastric and swine nutrition and industry trends,
Effective communication skills,
Fluent in English (at least B2+)
Effective presenter of technical material in both oral and written forms,
Excellent self-management and organizational skills,
Computer skills (Strong Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
Additional Information:
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown underrecognized groups are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Elanco we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive work environment. If you think you might be a good fit for a role but don't necessarily meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply. You may be the right candidate for this role or other roles!
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