Ruminant Technical Advisor

Ruminant Technical Advisor page is loaded Ruminant Technical Advisorlocations: Ashbourne, Derbyshiretime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: VAC25035. Job Description: Nutreco is a global leader in Animal Nutrition and Aquaculture, employing more than 11,000 people in 35 countries. With a proven track record of success, Trouw Nutrition GB is a Nutreco company in the UK, manufacturing a wide range of animal nutrition products with a turnover of c£100million.The Technical team are looking for a Technical Advisor to provide nutritional support for internal colleagues, liaise with the formulations team to ensure specifications are legal and technically correct, assist with technical projects, engage with customers alongside technical and commercial teams to provide nutritional/technical support for the ruminant portfolio.Key responsibilities will include: Providing technical support for internal colleagues including product advice/creation/amendment, project development, ration formulation for all ruminant species. Providing technical support for the formulations team, to include but not limited to, technical checking formulations, specification creation, training, customer spec creations and general nutritional support. Specialising in key nutritional areas, such as mineral nutrition, transition/milking cow, beef and sheep Involvement in the development of local/global technical innovation, products and solutions to benefit the future of the GB market Supporting internal procedures such as trials, laboratory data review, formulation package management, campaign development and nutritional training Keeping up to date with nutritional/legislative literature and requirements, including minlink and other internal tools Keeping up to date with the latest research from relevant scientific journals, conduct regular reviews on literature to present back to the wider technical team Supporting the technical team with customer specific projectsTo succeed in this role you will be degree qualified in animal nutrition or related subject with some experience of the ruminant nutrition sector. With an understanding of the farming industry, you must be confident in meeting with and presenting to both internal and external stakeholders. As well as strong communication skills, you will be confident working with complex data and have an organised approach to work. Our organisation: Trouw Nutrition is the global leader in innovative feed specialties, premixes and nutritional services for the animal nutrition industry. Trouw Nutrition provides species-specific nutritional solutions consisting of feed concepts, products and nutritional know-how. The unique combination of products, models and services Trouw Nutrition offers, boosts productivity and supports animal health through all life stages, contributing to our customers' peace of mind. Trouw Nutrition's nutrition solutions have met the need of farmers and home-mixers, feed producers, integrators and distributors. Trouw Nutrition has locations in 25 countries and around 5000 employees. Our mission is Feeding the Future. Equal Opportunity Employer: Trouw Nutrition is an equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered for all roles without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, national origin, citizenship status, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, marital, parental, military status or any other status protected by applicable local law. Please advise us at any point during the recruitment and selection process if you require accommodation. Trouw Nutrition is committed to compliance with all applicable legislation, including providing accommodation for applicants with disabilities.Nutreco is a global leader in animal nutrition and aquafeed. Our advanced nutritional solutions are at the origin of food for millions of consumers worldwide. Its two global company brands (aqua feed) and (animal nutrition) have sales in over 90 countries.Our purpose Feeding the Future captures a big challenge: feeding 9 billion people in 2050. Our responsibility is twofold: we need to make a significant contribution to meeting the rapid increase in worldwide demand for food; on the other hand, we need to find the right balance in order that we can realize growth while making also responsible choices for people and planet.We believe in three core elements to future success: strategy execution, innovation, and competence of our people. Our values; capable, caring, collaborative, and innovative are supportive of those three core elements