Poultry Nutrition Consultant

**You will love being a part of our team**

As a recent Top Small and Medium Employer, you will work with people who are passionate about their jobs and take initiative, people who want to do their best every single day, and 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 be a part of an entire organization that will never be satisfied with the status quo and will always look for ways to improve and be more efficient while taking care of the customer.

**The Role**

The Poultry Nutrition Consultant will provide nutritional and management solutions to Connect OnFarm’ s monogastric customers. You will manage individual customer accounts and build customer loyalty through the consultative selling process. As part of the Connect OnFarm sales team, you are an active team player who is engaged in supporting the company’s vision and growth objectives.

**Primary Roles and Responsibilities**
- Work directly with Connect On Farm’s customers and internal specialized nutritionists to provide leading-edge, customized nutritional solutions and value-based management services
- Continuously use and improve your consultative selling approach and manage direct accounts so that you are the number one value contributor to each customer’s business
- Create and implement initiatives to drive the development of new business through innovation, nutritional solutions, prospect management and producer meetings
- Understand that working with the colony agriculture segment in Western Canada requires a working knowledge of the unique relationship-connecting skills that align with their communal lifestyle choices
- Embrace teamwork and work closely with stakeholders to understand internal capabilities and processes of manufacturing and logistics
- Stay up to date on industry trends/technology to understand producers' evolving expectations and needs
- Understand customers' retail requirements and provide complimentary recommendations to support their requirements
- Be prepared to lead individual field-based projects which bring value and innovation to customers
- Professionally represent the Connect OnFarm brand at industry trade shows, conferences and meetings
- Develop and maintain relationships with other industry advisors, including veterinarians, financial institutions and reproductive technicians
- Act as a Connect OnFarm representative at internal and external customer events, industry trade shows and conferences
- Passionate about creating happy customers by “Keeping it Simple” and doing what’s right for the customer and Connect OnFarm
- Other duties as required and assigned

**Skills & Experience Required**
- Advanced understanding of monogastric nutrition and farm management with the capabilities to advance these skills through a continuous learning process
- 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
- Goal-oriented team player who is open to learning, challenging and improving
- 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 monogastric customers
- Resourceful with strategic and analytical capabilities
- 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 Connect OnFarm team; you believe in making others more successful Flexible, adaptable and able to thrive in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment

**Qualifications include**
- University or college diploma or degree in an agriculture-related program or equivalent experience
- Background in the Canadian monogastric industry; poultry experience essential
- Agricultural sales experience would be beneficial
- Colony experience an asset
- Previous ration balancing expertise and the ability to adjust ration recommendations accordingly
- Ability to analyze on-farm records and to utilize this data to identify areas for improvement

**Role Location**
- Expected to reside within an area allowing easy access to business facilities and customers (within the Canadian Prairie Provinces)

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