Health Services Lead

The Health Services Lead is responsible for developing and executing health strategies that maximize the performance, health, and profitability of customer swine operations to reduce the constraints that disease can have on the genetic program and expression. The role provides technical leadership in disease prevention, biosecurity, diagnostics, and herd health management, partnering closely with customers, veterinarians, account teams, and internal technical experts to improve production outcomes.

This position drives continuous improvement initiatives and influences customer decisions through science-based recommendations. Success requires strong technical expertise, disciplined execution, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to lead complex projects across multiple customer accounts.

• Partner with account managers and teams to develop plans to achieve account goals.

• Lead and develop Health Services to improve health and create robust biosecurity programs

• Be a trusted resource to help customers directly, through technical services, or through their veterinarians develop diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative plans
• Develop health improvement plans and strategies to eliminate critical disease that affect the health and production of the swine herds.
• Advocate for good biosecurity with science based best practices, training, and monitoring programs.
• Understand safety of the food chain and the role the farm and producers play.
• Influence business strategies that affect the health of the herd like depopulation, expansion, multiplication sourcing, and other strategies.
• Develop health strategies that allow customers the opportunity to improve profitability and realize a greater return on investment with our genetics.
• Communicate and support the implementation of the Company’s health, genetic, management and nutrition guidelines.
• Support accounts to ensure optimum health and performance in both mature and start-up farms.
• Identify and manage specific customer health and production improvement projects, including but not limited to increasing gilt selection rate, feed efficiency, and increasing weaned pig output, quality ,and efficiency.
• Participate or lead projects such as applied field research trials or customer data analysis that will lead to improvement in the Company’s production guidelines

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine
• Strong experience in swine health, production systems, epidemiology, diagnostics, and biosecurity.
• Knowledge of HACCP and health assurance programs; molecular diagnostics experience is an advantage.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
• Highly disciplined, detail-oriented, and committed to operational excellence.
• Willingness to travel regularly to support customers.
• Displays initiative to learn
• Organized and keen on details
• Willing to assume a project based role with 6 to 12 months duration
• Willing to work onsite 5x a week

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