Technical Feed Partner - Taranaki

About our team

GrainCorp Animal Nutrition is a national animal feed business, based in Taranaki NZ, dealing directly with corporate and farming customers across New Zealand. GrainCorp Feeds offers a comprehensive range of high-quality dry and liquid dairy supplementary feeds suitable for a variety of feeding systems. GrainCorp feeds has a solution for every customer, with a focus on helping improve on-farm production, reproduction, performance, and profitability. GrainCorp Animal Nutrition utilise specialised tools to analyse diets and production limitations to identify individual farm opportunities to help achieve customer goals. We are local at heart with the backing of GrainCorp, one of Australasia's largest agribusinesses.

About the role

We’re looking for technically skilled and sales-driven individuals to step into an exciting new role - Technical Feed Partner - designed for those with specialist knowledge in dairy cow nutrition and feeding. As part of our ambitious growth plans, this newly created position offers the opportunity to shape its direction and make a real impact as we expand our team and services.

The successful candidate will bring strong expertise in ration formulation, feed analysis, and nutritional management strategies to support herd health and performance. This role is an excellent opportunity for someone with a passion for animal nutrition to apply their technical skills in a practical, on-farm context while providing high-level support and guidance to our customers.

About your experience

Our successful candidate will come to us with proven experience in dairy cow nutrition and feed formulation, with deep knowledge of rations, feed analysis, and nutritional strategies tailored for various production systems. A background in applied animal nutrition, preferably through roles such as nutritionist, ruminant feed specialist, Agri sales or similar in the dairy sector will be highly regarded. Other key criteria for this role include :

• Strong analytical skills, including data interpretation
• Experience within sales in Agriculture and / or Nutrition
• Demonstrated ability to communicate insights clearly to farmers & other rural professionals
• Preferably some hands-on exposure to on-farm conditions or commercial feed operations
• This role will require some travel and overnight stays away from home.

What we offer

Ready to apply?

The next steps are easy! Simply submit your application and one of our team will reach out for a chat to discuss your background in more detail. We are looking forward to speaking to you!

In addition to providing proof of working rights and suitable professional referees, progressed candidates will be required to undertake a pre-employment medical. A current, valid driver’s licence is also required.

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