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(Archived) Territory Business Manager
Job Description
POSITION SUMMARY
The US Cattle Business Unit is one of the largest businesses within Zoetis’ worldwide operations. We focus on maximizing the value of our broad veterinary and producer solutions portfolio by building and sustaining relevant partnerships with veterinarians and producer owners. Based on our business model and operating environment we bring more than just medicines, services, and expertise to the marketplace – we deploy a range of targeted activities to support our solutions offerings in meeting the needs of our customers. The territory business manager position requires the individual to manage the Zoetis Cattle business with Distributors, Veterinarians, Dealers, and Producers in your respective territory. It will be advantageous for the person in this position to understand the Cow/Calf, Stocker, and Feedlot markets. The position will require travel and nights away from home.
POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES
- Calling on beef producers, veterinarians, dealers, and distributor representatives and being able to quantify and qualify differences among Zoetis products and those of our competitors.
- Utilizing excellent presentation skills to conduct educational training and exhibiting selling skills at accounts and producer seminars.
- Building relationships and influence within key trade channels including: veterinarians, distributors, extension and university personnel.
- Managing a broad geographic area with a diverse customer base to achieve sales targets, increased market share, and business objectives.
- Build Trust with customers through developing reliability, credibility and follow-up.
- Territory Planning & Priority Setting through data analysis, planning, utilization of resources and execution of business plans
- Technical & Commercial Knowledge – General knowledge of Beef Industry, in-depth product knowledge of Zoetis portfolio of products, and business & financial acumen of local customer base
- Teamwork – Share, collaborate and act as a team player
- Performing other duties and responsibilities as assigned and directed.
ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS.
- The position requires the ability to call on producers, veterinarians and the supporting influencers
- The position also requires the ability to work with internal colleagues effectively as a team – SAM/LPS/Technical Service colleagues that share in account responsibilities
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Undergraduate degree (BS/BA) Required
- Masters in animal science or equivalent degree is a plus
- A minimum of 6 months of cattle related experience for Associate TM; A minimum of 3 years of cattle related experience for a TM
- Animal Health experience and knowledge of Beef industry is preferred
- Ability and willingness to travel overnight approximately at least 20% of the time to include some weekends
TECHNICAL SKILLS REQUIREMENTS
- In-depth product and disease knowledge
- Understanding of cattle production and confidence at the chute and ranch
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Proficiency in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word applications
PHYSICAL POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Note the physical conditions in which work will be performed, if applicable to the position. Examples: Lifting, sitting, standing, walking, ability to travel, drive, unusual attendance requirements, weekend work or travel requirements, etc.
- The position will require a valid drivers license
- Willingness to drive to customer locations across defined geography – Producer, Clinic & dealer facilities
- Requires individual to be able to work on beef operations
- Requires individual to be willing to work with cows from husbandry to treatment administration and product administration education.