Technical Service Specialist

Job Purpose and Impact The Diamond V - Technical Service Specialist (Open to Remote within US) will provide industry expertise to our key internal and external accounts regarding the best nutritional solutions and technology. In this role, you will serve as an industry leading professional enabling the business to enhance its commercial growth potential by leveraging unparalleled technology and groundbreaking solutions to create value added solutions for our key customers and prospects. This is a home-office based role. Candidates must reside in, or be willing to relocate to, one of the following states: Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona, California, Idaho, New Mexico, Texas, or Kansas. In addition, candidates must live within close proximity to a major airport to support travel requirements. This position requires up to 75% travel across the assigned territory. Diamond V's natural immune support postbiotic feed additives help optimize animal health, animal performance, and preharvest food safety. Key Accountabilities - Serve as the point of contact for nutrition & health expertise and use this expertise to influence prospective customers. - Develop and implement a plan with regional commercial team to partner with key accounts to achieve trusted advisor status and drive value added focus to enable delivery on customer promise. - Provide expertise to assess new business opportunities and identify priorities in the innovation pipeline to optimize nutrition solutions and enable the ability to create optimal offers from a nutritional and commercial perspective. - Prepare project data and conclusions for internal and key customer presentations to make recommendations and product demonstrations. - Develop training resources to provide guidance to regional and local commercial and technical teams to improve our value creation and sales effectiveness. - Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems. You may provide directions to supporting team members and be a strategic contributor. - Other duties as assigned. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications - Master's degree, Doctorate degree, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree - Minimum of six years of related work experience in technical sales, business development or related field - Experience in the dairy industry, ruminant nutrition or animal nutrition - Able and willing to travel up to 75% - Valid driver's license in good standing Preferred Qualifications - Sales experience in animal nutrition, feed, animal health, additives, supplements - Experience with technical sales, able to provide technical support to dairies, nutritionist, and veterinarians