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APSA Regional Technical Manager - Poultry

atMSD (THAILAND) LTD.


Job Description

The APSA Regional Technical Manager - Poultry is part of the Global Poultry Marketing Unit and reports to the Regional Marketing Director in Asia Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa Region. The role is a member of the Global Poultry Business Unit within our Animal Health Division. This unit, located within the Livestock Business Unit, sets the strategic direction for the Poultry Business Worldwide and must also ensure alignment with this strategy with all functions within the organization. The position may work remotely or office based in the Asia region and ideally located in South East Asia.

The main objective of this role is to give specialized, high level regional veterinary technical support to the local markets' technical and marketing staff, supporting relevant product groups and services in all stages of the life cycle to achieve the annual and strategic goals. In addition to providing global technical direction for R&D into developing products that satisfy customer needs in the relevant markets. The nature of this role requires flexibility to travel as and when required in order to properly fulfill the principal tasks and responsibilities.

In this role your responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

  • define, establish and update the technical platforms for new and existing products and services to ensure the best quality technical information is available both at regional and local company level for strategic and operational needs.
  • actively participate in the formulation of the company long term regional product development strategy, by continuously searching for new product opportunities and provide expert veterinary technical assessment of all new product proposals to R&D, Business Development and Regulatory Affairs departments.
  • generate written technical information for publication or verbal presentation at meetings at various levels.
  • provide regional expert technical representation at relevant meetings, congresses and exhibitions in order to promote the technical and veterinary interests of the company and to enhance technical profile and good scientific standing.
  • be responsible for initiating, managing and maintaining a good technical relationship with key opinion leaders and academics.
  • ensure that all regional promotional and PR material is technically accurate and ethical, and correctly reflects the authorized SPC/product label. Also, manage similar marketing & technical communication, to ensure it is fully in line with our technical platform and product positioning.
  • maintain awareness of competitor products and relevant technical activities; to ensure this information is effectively communicated to regional colleagues and local companies to optimum benefit.
  • provide a high quality regional customer product/technical support service, either directly or by providing assistance to local operations to optimum benefit.
  • assist and guide local companies undertaking any local market product support trials to ensure that any such trials are properly designed and comply with our regional technical and regulatory requirements.

Degree requirements:

  • A degree in Veterinary Medicine; PhD or DVM

Required Experience and Skills:

  • Minimum 5 years of relevant experience
  • Full proficiency in spoken and written English (proficiency in second major language is preferred)
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including intercultural, interpersonal and general communication with a natural ability to work in a collaborative team environment.

Preferred Experience and Skills:

  • Prior experience in private veterinary practice or a university clinic is desirable.
  • Previous technical advisory experience in an animal health company or other relevant industry is desirable.
  • Previous technical experience in a Poultry Production company is desirable.
  • Global/Regional exposure/experience is preferred.

Language:

  • Excellent English Language skills; Oral and Written required.
  • Mandarin is desirable.

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06/17/2024

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Requisition ID:R291911

Experience required
  • 5 years
Salary
  • Negotiable
Job function
  • Management
Job type
  • Full-time

Company overview

Size:2000-5000 employees
Industry:Advertising / Media
Location:Bangkok
Website:www.merck.com
Founded in:n/a
Ranking:4/5

Merck & Co., Inc. (Merck) is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets a range of products to improve human and animal health. The Company?s operations are principally managed on a products basis and comprises of two business segments: the Pha ... Read more

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