Health Services Lead

Role Overview

The Health Services Lead is responsible for developing and executing health strategies that maximize the performance, health, and profitability of customer swine operations to reduce the constraints that disease can have on the genetic program and expression. The role provides technical leadership in disease prevention, biosecurity, diagnostics, and herd health management, partnering closely with customers, veterinarians, account teams, and internal technical experts to improve production outcomes.

 

This position drives continuous improvement initiatives and influences customer decisions through science-based recommendations. Success requires strong technical expertise, disciplined execution, excellent stakeholder management, and the ability to lead complex projects across multiple customer accounts.

You Will

• Partner with account managers and teams to develop plans to achieve account goals.

• Lead and develop Health Services to improve health and create robust biosecurity programs

• Be a trusted resource to help customers directly, through technical services, or through their veterinarians develop diagnostic, therapeutic, and preventative plans
• Develop health improvement plans and strategies to eliminate critical disease that affect the health and production of the swine herds.
• Advocate for good biosecurity with science based best practices, training, and monitoring programs.
• Understand safety of the food chain and the role the farm and producers play.
• Influence business strategies that affect the health of the herd like depopulation, expansion, multiplication sourcing, and other strategies.
• Develop health strategies that allow customers the opportunity to improve profitability and realize a greater return on investment with our genetics.
• Communicate and support the implementation of the Company’s health, genetic, management and nutrition guidelines.
• Support accounts to ensure optimum health and performance in both mature and start-up farms.
• Identify and manage specific customer health and production improvement projects, including but not limited to increasing gilt selection rate, feed efficiency, and increasing weaned pig output, quality ,and efficiency.
• Participate or lead projects such as applied field research trials or customer data analysis that will lead to improvement in the Company’s production guidelines

Requirements

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine
• Strong experience in swine health, production systems, epidemiology, diagnostics, and biosecurity.
• Knowledge of HACCP and health assurance programs; molecular diagnostics experience is an advantage.
• Demonstrated leadership, project management, and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, communication, and problem-solving abilities.
• Highly disciplined, detail-oriented, and committed to operational excellence.
• Willingness to travel regularly to support customers.
• Displays initiative to learn
• Organized and keen on details
• Willing to assume a project based role with 6 to 12 months duration
• Willing to work onsite 5x a week

 

Business Overview

Genus is an agricultural biotechnology pioneer. We are a global FTSE 250 company, headquartered in the UK, and listed on the London Stock Exchange.  Genus PLC has a presence in over 70 countries and a global workforce of over 3,000 employees and growing.  We are a worldwide leader in porcine and bovine animal genetics, partnering with farmers to transform how we nourish the world – a mission that is important to a sustainable future. 

 

PIC, our swine division, currently supplies over 70% of the world’s top pork producers. We directly employ people in 18 countries worldwide, and our products are available in more than 50 countries across the globe. We are a diverse team, ranging from scientists to sales teams, production personnel to customer service, and are all united by a passion for producing nutritious, affordable pork and a commitment to continuous improvement.

 

Our vision is clear: Pioneering animal genetic improvement to sustainably nourish the world.

 

Benefits Overview

At Genus, we offer a competitive salary. Benefits include health insurance for employee and dependents, life insurance, annual vacation and sick leave credits, competitive retirement/savings plan, annual company incentive, work uniforms. This position will have the opportunity for growth. We are constantly evaluating our offerings to ensure we stay competitive. 

 

The current monthly salary range for this position is Php70,000 to PhP97,000. Actual job offer would depend on the relevant experience and expertise that the succesful applicant will bring on the table and overall assessment of Genus in terms of job/company fit.   

Equal Employment Opportunities

Genus is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with anti-discrimination law, it is the purpose of this policy to effectuate these principles and mandates. Genus prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Genus conforms to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations.