Technical Service Manager, Animal Nutrition

Responsibilities

Support Animal Nutrition business goals via delivering expert input into complex technical projects, that deliver business growth, innovative solutions; Interact with various technical departments of national, multi-national, and global key accounts of Animal Nutrition, and orchestrate resources, and activities to achieve optimal project results; Build customer intimacy based on deep understanding of customer’s (growth) strategy, and translate into technical projects, and innovative solutions, products, and services that ultimately lead to business growth; Anticipate challenges of the industry, and create business opportunities; act as an early warning system for new developments, and identify opportunities arising from this; Build best solutions based on complex product, service, consultation, and concepts; Manage multi-functional, multi-level projects between Evonik, and customer; Coordinate technical activities of key regional account teams and support global account team in the region; Plan, prepare, and deploy resources across organization while managing (technical) projects; Keep up to date with new research findings, trends, and developments to be a strategic resource for customer’s technical departments

Requirements

Ph. D or Master degree in animal nutrition and/or animal science, or equivalent; A solid background in monogastric nutrition (Poultry/Swine); 3 to 5 years practical experience in feed or feed additive industry; Self-driven with good interpersonal, presentation & negotiation skills; Works independently and as part of a team, reliability to perform well in times of daily work; Excellent communication skills, good at both English and Chinese, be able to build trust, establish relationships with internal global team and external partners; Able to work across functional and cultural boundaries; Willing to do domestic travel for at least 50% of working time

Benefits

Performance-based remuneration; occupational health benefits; hybrid and flexible working environments with #SmartWork; high-quality development programs; attractive career paths