Senior Vice President – Animal Health Services

The purpose of this position is to provide leadership to Animal Health Services teams and to provide guidance on strategic development and alignment with the long-range goals of our client’s organization. The incumbent will provide organizational leadership in the area of animal health and welfare. Responsibilities include providing strategic and budget oversight, participating in long- and short-term strategic development, promoting and facilitating development of internal leaders and experts, collaboration with other program and infrastructure departments and external groups, tracking departmental success through objective metrics and subjective evaluations, integrating programs to optimize services, manage costs, and maximize impact, developing medical record processes designed to improve services and efficiencies, collect/analyze animal welfare/program data for public/professional consumption, negotiating program specific contracts designed to generate program supporting income, developing communication processes, gathering input and gaining consensus when appropriate, performing annual performance reviews and recommending salaries and promotions, developing key influencer relationships, providing communications department with data and experts to support mediate initiatives and manage staff.

Qualifications include a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree, preferred board-certification, MBA or extensive business and leadership training, minimum of 7 years as a leader in an animal welfare/health organization, experience in marketing and corporate relations , solid knowledge of the animal welfare/health industry, ability to develop business strategies in line with the organization’s goals, must bridge diverse areas of expertise: medicine/surgery, toxicology, behavior, research, business strategy and marketing. Leadership and staff development skills are key, experience working with unions is helpful.

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Project Engineering Manager

The incumbent will develop and manage projects for the company’s plants including primarily process improvements, product extension and general equipment upgrades. Work with plant managers and engineering staff to design and implement projects in existing plants.  Position reports to the Director of Engineering. 

Ideal candidate has a BS in Chemical or Mechanical Engineering with 5-10 years or more of experience. Experience can be in Project Management or Plant Management, with a combination of both being preferred, in other words candidates with basic engineering skills as well as hands-on experience are ideal. Candidates may come from the Agricultural Processing Industries or should have experience on the following equipment/systems-grinders, conveyors, evaporators, cookers/ dryers, heat exchangers, boilers and wastewater treatment.

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Senior Manager, Business Development and Strategic Collaborations

The incumbent will manage business development and strategic collaborations and will lead the evaluation of new market and business opportunities in the production animal diagnostic space as well as in adjacent markets; identify and promote new marketing channels such as OEm partners; support the market development, product management and sales functions as a thought leader. This position will be external facing. Deep domain expertise in this field required (7+ years). Be regarded as a thought leader internally and externally. Represent company in public speaking engagements, industry meetings and important sales situations. Incumbent will participate and influence disease programs to increase awareness of Real-Time PCR products. Establish, drive and manage strategic collaborations with key opinion leaders in public and private labs. Build and manage relationships with government/industry, disease committees, universities, reference laboratories and vaccine-pharmaceutical companies, producers and veterinarians.

Qualifications include 7+ years of experience in the production animal diagnostic space with strong understanding of diagnostic practices, customer needs and market dynamics. Proven ability to develop and foster relationships with KOL. Incumbent must have excellent technical, project management and planning skills. DVM, animal diagnostic company and qPCR experience strongly preferred.

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Director – Veterinary Business Solutions

The Director will be responsible for the goals of the group to generate services revenue and strengthen our clients relationship with customers. The incumbent will build and lead an innovative organization to deliver high quality consulting services to a broad base of veterinary clients including high quality finance, marketing, human resources and transition planning. Lead the continuous development of new program offerings, access to new customers, advancement of best practices, and strategic planning to support the veterinary profession. take responsibility for forecasting, delivering on sales, expense and targets for the group. Managing colleagues to follow up with customers and partners on lead generation. close sales, execute on business plans and generate new business. Lead an ongoing analysis of marketplace and network with opinion leaders, animal health and veterinary associations, customers and partners to ensure gains leadership in this area. Develop and play a key role in the delivery of presentations for all levels of management as well as other internal and external audiences. Work with various external consultants and industry “think tanks” to identify relevant benchmarks to assess continuous opportunities.

Qualifications include previous veterinary consulting experience. MBA or other advanced business degree strongly preferred. Strong knowledge of companion animal health business environment. 10+ years of successful leadership in a commercial role or small business setting including demonstrated success in marketing and/or sales and experience managing a P&L. Must be a self-starter, capable of managing and prioritizing a large number of projects and tasks at various stages of development with strong analytical skills and excellent problem solving capabilities. Demonstrated and proven executive presence, relationship building and consultative skills with proven operational leadership experience and ability to manage change. Demonstrated ability to think and act strategically, while at the same time delivering results in a matrix environment, achieving goals through indirect influence and teamwork. Strong written and oral communication skills required to gain commitment and support for decisions and motivate the organization to continue to support the services platform.

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