Technical Advisor

**Technical Advisor (Coopers Brand)**

**The Opportunity**
- ** Permanent Full-Time** role based in **southern/central New South Wales**
- Be an integral part of the team, working within a **trusted global leader in veterinary medicine**
- Support the **Coopers** brand **working directly with farmers and veterinarians**
- Join a growing, yet already **successful market**
- ** Upskill and growth in an area your passionate about**, whilst being fully supported and encouraged

Our Veterinary team use their scientific background to provide technical expertise and education to our customers, sales and marketing teams. With a deep knowledge of pharmacology, animal health and production we engage scientific exchange with external experts and industry leaders ensuring the scientific value of our animal health portfolio is understood.

**What You Will Do**

**_ Responsibilities include, however not limited to:_**
- The Technical Advisor is responsible for providing high level technical support to the Ruminant business and will be based in southern/central New South Wales
- Identify product and market opportunities and provide input into marketing plans and strategies
- Develop and maintain effective relationships with key accounts, veterinarians, veterinary staff and other key industry influencers
- Develop technical marketing materials and review materials for external release to ensure compliance requirements are met
- Keep the ruminant team informed on current developments of the company's products, competitor products and current issues
- Ensure product complaint investigation, issues of internal, legislative compliance and follow up requests are executed
- Design and implement marketing trials to support commercially available products and products in development
- Develop and present technical presentations internally to sales and marketing staff as well as externally to KOL's, end-user customers and distributors

**What You Must Have**
- Bachelor of Veterinary Science or equivalent e.g. Agricultural Science related (ideally)
- Must have previous experience in the Australian livestock industry
- Exceptional understanding of livestock production systems in Australia
- Commercial focus and ability to identify business opportunities, establish and maintain business relationships for the organization
- Excellent written and oral communication skills including presentations and training.
- Ability to build internal and external networks
- High ability to analyse numerical and technical data from a range of sources to produce solutions.
- Sound logical problem-solving approach
- Good management skills including time management, objective setting and budget awareness

**What You Can Expect**
- Work autonomously whilst being supported, encouraged and being part of a trusted Global Leading Animal Health organisation
- Exposure to upskill and develop
- Flexibility and opening doors to other opportunities and skillsets

Our Animal Health division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to the health and well-being of animals. We are a global team of professionals working together to make a positive difference in animal care and the world's food supply and have a deep sense of responsibility towards our customers, consumers, animals, society and our planet. We offer one of our industry's most innovative portfolio of products, services and technologies that serve to prevent, treat, and control diseases across all major farm and companion animal species.

**Who we are **

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

**What we look for** Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another's thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.