Job description
The Asia Technical Manager will be in charge of the development of technical approach in Asia with the following responsibilities:
- Work closely with the Asia Commercial Development team and local technical departments in each countries for the development in Complete Feed and Premix / Firm Services for Swine species (including specialties & additives);
- Ensure the operation of the plant via the right technical support for Asian countries;
- Be the association between customer needs and optimal use of the company products and services;
- Contribute to feed specifications in relation with central & local formulation team;
- Deliver technical support and training to sales team and customers, provide technical input in the identification of customer opportunities and resolve customer/product technical problems;
- Conduct customer product assessment process, including identifying evaluation criteria, creating protocol, performing tests with customers, coordinating testing parameters, and reporting findings to customers;
- Organize technical topics about feed and animal production and collaborate with the marketing team to develop key messages to publish to the market;
- Propose research themes to global R&D team;
- Apply technical services experience for B2F and B2B customer in the countries;
- Develop internal technical communication in the region;
- Animation of the whole technical team in Asia, including local technical teams;
- Hold training sessions for technical team.
Job Requirement
- High-degree of professionalism and prior experience in diet and feed development, feed formulation & nutrition;
- Masters Degree applicants have expertise in swine nutrition and at least 8 years of industry experience. Have swine experience as well as integrator experience or allied industry technical service;
- Proven track record of technical support work in animal husbandry or nutrition of the multi species with nutritional background;
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in team;
- Fluency in English and ideally a second language relevant in Asia such as Chinese;
- Strong ability to present, express ideas and communicate complex technical knowledge;
- Practical experience in providing nutritional consulting and/or support to large farms operation and feed mills across Asia;
- Be able to frequently go on business trips within the Asia zone;
- Team work and extensive international and cross-cultural experience.
Required Job Skills
technical
training
sales
marketing
communication
animation
consulting