Formulation Specialist

You will love being a part of our team

As a 2025 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; 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 be looking for ways to improve and be more efficient while taking care of the customer.
  

The Role

The Formulation Specialist is responsible for the accurate, timely, and compliant application and administration of formulations and corresponding pricing requirements.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities 

• Ensure compliance with any formulation-related regulations that affect livestock feeds
• Administration of formulation, manufacturing and accounting system components to support item accuracy and integrity
• Implement new and update existing formulas and pricing as provided by Nutrition Consultants
• Support a cross-functional team approach by encouraging interdepartmental communication
• Create and maintain nutritionally balanced and cost-effective formulas according to animal species and life stage
• Timely and accurate completion of urgent formulation requests
• Main point of contact for Consultants, Sales Coordinators, and Regional Operations Managers regarding all formula-related matters
• Support strong working relationships with toll manufacturers
• Create and administer compliant feed labels, auditing as required
• Maintenance of accurate ingredient specifications within formulation software
• Safety Data Sheets administration for manufactured products
• Work with external laboratory analysis vendors to execute forage submissions tracking, monitor analysis results, and verify invoices
• Assist in tracking and recording feed and ingredient laboratory analysis to support quality manufacturing and product delivery
• Customer benchmarking and data management
• Maintain formulation measurables and analyze data to assess performance and implement improvements
• Support day-to-day costing and pricing consistency and communication, e.g. item creation, update and archiving, unit of measure, currency exchange etc.
• Use a collaborative approach to identify and resolve pricing-related system and process issues, inefficiencies and redundancies
• Administration of vendor pricing, ensure item accuracy and liaise with vendors to facilitate current pricing data
• Other duties as required and assigned

Skills & Experience Required

• Self-starter with the ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with coworkers and customers
• Ability to effectively navigate multiple software programs
• Detail-oriented and resourceful with strong analytical capabilities and decision-making skills
• Ability to prioritize individual responsibilities and effectively manage time
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team and inter-departmental environment
• Ability to challenge the status quo and drive change for required improvements
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• General knowledge of livestock production systems and nutritional/management practices
• Display honesty, integrity and a strong sense of ethics in all decisions and actions
• Enthusiasm for continuous learning relevant to the role with a keen desire to take on new challenges

Qualifications include

• Post Secondary Education in Agriculture or equivalent experience is considered an asset
• Advanced Microsoft computing and applications skills
• Experience using formulation, ration balancing, accounting and manufacturing software is considered an asset
• Familiarity with CFIA, FeedAssure/HACCP and Health Canada regulatory and audit requirements would be considered an asset
• Previous agriculture or livestock industry experience is considered an asset

Our current success

Since 2005, More Than Just Feed and its family of Brands have proudly served Western Canada's feed industry with high-quality products and services. More Than Just Feed is trusted by Canadian farmers because we are customer-focused, high-quality, and dependable. We provide a full-scope of services, including warehousing and on-farm delivery services of our retail products. More Than Just Feed and its family of Brands is revolutionizing the feed industry, supporting Canadian farmers to put food on family tables for the next 100 years. More Than Just Feed and its family of Brands are driven by one core purpose; Helping Farmers Feed People.