Swine Veterinarian – Midwest US / Canada

January 31, 2012 by admin  
Filed under Canada, Mid-West, Technical Services

Our client seeks a Swine Technical Services Veterinarian to join their team in launching and supporting their innovative therapeutic product line in the USA and Canada.  In this role, the successful candidate will support sales through professional level technical support to swine veterinarians, producers and distributors and will establish professional relationships with key opinion leaders in industry, government and academic circles. The incumbent will design, monitor and report on field trials and collaborate with academic or research trial cooperators and will provide technical input for the development of training, marketing and sales materials. The veterinarian will provide technical support for sales representatives, marketing personnel and fellow technical team members and will investigate and report on disease breaks and product complaints through problem resolution strategies which might include farm visits and diagnostic investigations.  The incumbent will prepare and submit abstracts of field trials for oral or poster presentation at industry meetings.

Qualifications include a veterinary degree with minimum of three years veterinary practice, industry or production system experience. Swine experience is required.  This position will be home/field based in the Midwest or Canada. Travel within both countries will be required. Full time or consultant candidates will be considered.

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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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Manager – Scientific & Medical Affairs

January 13, 2012 by admin  
Filed under North-East, Technical Services

The incumbent acts as the science and medical advisor for our client’s organization and will liaise with academia and other expert thought leaders in the field of Pet Care in order to bring forward information about trends and scientific advances to support product development and marketing in delivering new, efficacios and trendy products to the marketplace. He/She will provide Public Relations support for advertising, web, veterinary liaison and veterinary outreach. The incumbent will review and keep abreast of emerging science as related to strategic platforms of the company, support Regulatory Affairs, R&D and Marketing in claims substantiation through scientific evidence. The incumbent will be the scientific and medical advisor for product development and will network with Academia and Expert Thought Leaders in the field of Pet Care in order to obtain expert opinions on scientific issues. Other responsibilities include keeping accurate records of scientific substantiation sources for product claims. Based on clinical trial experience, he/she will partner with R&D to develop related testing protocols for clinical trials. The incumbent will work with legal and R&D to identify IP platforms and fill the IP gap. He/she will support the Customer Development Team by attending national meetings and customer sales presentations to sell the science based products that our client offers and will be the medical spokesperson for the company.  The Manager will provide medical and scientific support to Consumer Affairs and will provide Public Relations support for advertising, web, veterinary liaison and veterinary outreach.

Qualifications include a DVM with 3-5 years of veterinary practice experience. A PhD is a plus as well as someone who is a trail-blazer and champion of identifying new technologies and technology improvements.  Will need to have mastery at handling complex tasks & projects as well as multiple projects concurrently and will apply knowledge of technical and medical fields within category teams and peers.  The incumbent will aggressively seek new technology and IP protection and will stay abreast of new developments and opportunities.  Will need to represent the company via the media, web, conferences and veterinary outreach and will need to be an excellent technical writer and have a track record of publishing in peer reviewed scientific journals.  Will need the abiilty to design protocols for clinical trials whereby the outcome will support product claims.

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Contributing Writer – DVM

December 8, 2011 by admin  
Filed under East, Mid-West, Other, Practice, Technical Services

 (contract part time role): Our client is looking for a contributing writer to contribute to building a first class blog/online newsletter for small pets. This individual will write blogs and the amount of work could vary as the organization progresses. Initially it may require 3-5 hours per month. The blog will be educational in nature and our client is looking for a practicing Veterinarian or University Researcher that specializes in exotic animals (especially rabbits, guinea pigs or chinchillas).  The individual needs to be someone who is passionate about small animals, their wellbeing and would like to contribute their knowledge to the community they are building online.  Ideally the person would be someone who owns one of these pets. Our client’s values are to provide the highest quality natural products on the market and to educate consumers on best practices. 

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Director – Quality Assurance

Our client is a pharmaceutical company which specializes in providing high quality drugs for pets and is searching for a Director of Quality Assurance to be in charge of creating, implementing and overseeing additional quality systems.

The Director must be able to proactively address and lead resolution of compliance issues internally and with external partners and contractors and must have at least 8 years experience in Quality Assurance for a human or animal drug company and will have substantial knowledge of cGMP requirements for multiple dosage forms, along with prior experience with supplier qualification. Additional experience with GDPs and/or GLPs is desirable. International and domestic travel required.

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Technical Services Veterinarian – West / Midwest

December 1, 2011 by admin  
Filed under Mid-West, Technical Services, West

Western US, Field Based- (ideally based in DFW, other large airports in west/midwest ok – Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles)
The incumbent will prepare and present product and technical training programs for the sales force, provide technical training programs for the sales force, provide technical presentations to veterinary professional associations and provide technical support at major veterinary conventions. The TSV will contribute to the annual budget process, help with strategic planning and will enhance the corporate image. Qualifications include a DVM or equivalent degree and 1-5+ years of experience. Travel is 50%-75%.
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Swine Veterinarian – Ohio

November 7, 2011 by admin  
Filed under Mid-West, Technical Services

The Swine Veterinarian is responsible for providing both practical and scientific support to internal and external customers, in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage in the pork industry. The Swine Veterinarian must serve as a scientific and technical advisor to operations personnel on matters related to swine veterinary medicine. The Swine Veterinarian is responsible for supporting and educating the swine sales force and pork customers in the proper use and placement of biological and pharmaceutical products within the pork production system. The ideal candidate will be one who is recognized for expertise in the areas of, but not limited to Pork Production, Swine Respiratory Disease, Immunology, Anti Infectives. This position will require overnight travel.

Qualifications include Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Degree with license in at least one US state, 1 year post doctoral experience in clinical practice, academia, research or industry, private practice or production medicine experience preferred, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, in-depth understanding of U.S Pork Production

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