Technical and Business Development Lead

1 week ago

Isando, South Africa MSD Full time

The Technical and Business Development Lead role is an exciting opportunity with vast, strategic responsibility within the Animal Health Ruminants Business Unit.

**PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES**

**General**
- Participate in setting strategy for Ruminant Business Unit. Participate in Ruminant team meetings providing technical support to realise strategy and maintain sound veterinary principles in all marketing activities.
- Attend and contribute to the following meetings:

- Executive Management meetings
- General Management meetings
- Forecast meetings
- Product launch meetings
- Operational Management meetings
- Technical meetings
- Pharmacovigilance meetings
- Personnel management: manage team of subordinates and personnel development

**Product and Business Development**
- Identify product range deficiencies in liaison with marketing team and sales force.
- Identify and source potential new products and broader business opportunities.
- Identify and investigate new business opportunities.
- Do initial feasibility studies in liaison with sales managers and relevant product managers.
- Life Cycle Management: driving technical trials required to support in-line products, as well as new products.

**Technical services/Training**
- Manage provision of technical
- and training services by Technical Managers (veterinarians) in respect of the following:

- Product training to sales force at sales conferences/ to sales order clerks./customers/farmers’ days/vet days/ to cooperatives and wholesaler sales staff
- Ensure prompt response to product queries and trouble shooting.
- Manage pre-launch and post-launch marketing trials of in-market products.
- Provide technical support to the Feedlot Sales Team, particularly with respect to antibiotic monitoring/TTAs and growth performance enhancers.
- Assist the Pharmaceutical Department in investigating, processing and solving cases of adverse drug reactions to the satisfaction of all parties involved without unnecessary costs.
- Assist Regulatory Affairs Department with regulatory compliance and providing technical support where required.
- Attend congresses, agricultural shows, farmers’ days and product launches, to provide technical assistance to Product
- and Sales Managers.
- Initiate field trials, monitor, data collection, collation and provision of data to support registration of new products. Plan, coordinate and participate in field trials.
- Liaise with journalists and relevant authorities to publish technical articles.
- Provide technical support to Product Managers in planning and development of promotional brochures and advertisements.
- Participate in public
- and professional appearances and maintain relationships with key opinion leaders.
- Liaise with relevant veterinary and agricultural organisations and assist in maintaining registration of veterinary products
- Collect data on market developments, the veterinary industry and developments of competitor companies.

**Pharmacovigilance**
- This role shall cooperate fully with and provide all reasonable and necessary information and assistance to the pharmacovigilance department in connection with any investigation relating to pharmacovigilance reports.
- As part of the national pharmacovigilance team, the employee will be actively involved in supporting the pharmacovigilance team by ensuring overall compliance from their business unit and maintaining oversight of pharmacovigilance related activities.

**KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED**
- A specialist degree (Master’s Degree) in Veterinary Science with a minimum of five years’ experience in private practice and five years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry.
- A minimum of three years’ experience of managing personnel.
- Marketing experience, Research experience and Business management experience would be advantageous.

Our Animal Health Division is a trusted global leader in veterinary medicine, dedicated to preserving and improving health, well-being, and performance of animals and the people who care for them. 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.

Through our commitment to The Science of Healthier Animals®, we offer veterinarians, farmers, pet owners and governments one of the widest ranges of veterinary pharmaceuticals, vaccines and health management solutions and services as well as an extensive suite of digitally connected identification, traceability and monitoring products. We invest in dynamic and comprehensive R&D resources and a modern, global supply chain. We are present in more than 50 countries, while our products are available in some 150 markets.

**Who we are**

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inve

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