Position Snapshot

Nestlé Purina
Veterinary Nurse Development Manager
Field Based
Salary c.£32,000 depending upon experience + potential bonus + fantastic benefits 

This is a full-time permanent opportunity, but we are always open to discuss individual’s flexible working needs so please speak to us during the recruitment process to understand what this could look like for you. 

Position Summary

At Nestlé PURINA Pet Care, we're passionately committed to helping pets enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives because we're pet owners too.  As a world leading company in pet care and nutrition, Nestlé PURINA has been helping pets live healthy, happy lives for over 85 years. We are proud to produce some of the UK’s best loved brands including FELIX®, WINALOT®, GO-CAT®, BAKERS® and PURINA ONE & GOURMET, trusted and bought by millions of pet owners. We believe that pets and people are better together which is why our employees can bring their dogs to work at our Gatwick and Sudbury sites.
 

This Veterinary Nurse Development Manager role is to drive endorsement and recommendation and usage of Purina products by the veterinary nursing community in the UK. 
Developing and driving the Purina Veterinary Nurse Development Programme, as a key business building tool, is a key part of demonstrating commitment and support to veterinary practices. Note that the role will involve some travelling and stays away from home.
 

A day in the life of Veterinary Nurse Development Manager

Through strong relationship-building, influencing key stakeholders, and working with veterinary nurses in practice, academia and other channels, the Vet Nurse Development Manager drives awareness of Purina, its nutritional expertise and the support it provides to the veterinary nursing (and vet) profession.

Responsibilities will include: 

• Driving awareness of Purina and its products through visibility within the veterinary nurse profession
• To develop and maintain a strategy for building Purina business in the veterinary nursing channel
• Networking and influencing with key opinion leaders within the veterinary nursing profession and relevant stakeholders. This includes but is not limited to attendance at key nursing events such as BVNA Congress and customer congresses and may involve some weekend working (for which lieu time is given). 
• Taking ownership of, developing and driving the Purina Veterinary Nurse Development Programme.
• Working with the Purina Veterinary Nutrition Partner team to drive knowledge and understanding of their customer (veterinary nurses) in practice. This includes strategic planning, creation of materials/training, delivery and operational execution in the field. This will involve some travelling within the role. 
• The Nurse Development Manager will also act as a primary point of central contact for the nurses undertaking the Nurse Development role in practice. Role responsibilities here include field visits for coaching/training to supplement the support received from the VNPs.
• Support the VNP team, Veterinary Technical Manager, and Scientific Affairs Manager with technical matters to include (but not limited to) daily running of the veterinary technical helpline for practice, to include the answering and logging of technical enquiries; assist the VNP for help with training in practices; assist in the induction, training and assessment of new Purina team members, both starters and returners; develop and provide team and marketing with technical support materials. 
• Maximise awareness of Purina nutrition expertise externally through, but not limited to external communications such as writing magazine articles.

What will make you successful

We’re looking for candidates who are passionate about nutrition and also veterinary nursing. You should be self starting and ideally have some commercial experience. Ideally, you’ll have the below skills and experience: 

• Qualified Registered Veterinary Nurse (RVN) with previous clinical experience in veterinary practice, or experience of working in this area in a commercial capacity. 
• Must have experience of customer facing work, ideally consulting nurse
• Previous experience in delivering training or lecturing to veterinary nurses, confidence in delivery of training
• Awareness of current political developments in veterinary nursing and ability to understand how these could influence delivery and direction of strategic training requirements
• Proven interest in nutrition: may include Certificate in nutrition; track record of training in nutrition; in clinic nutrition leading; clinic nutrition advisor; lecturing on nutrition as part of nurse training.

What you need to know

What can we offer in return? Great benefits you’d expect from a business the size of Nestlé – in the shape of a competitive salary and benefits package, bonus scheme, flexible working scheme, 25 days holiday plus statutory holidays plus flex leave, pension scheme and a real focus on personal development and growth.

The closing date for this role is 24th March 2022.

We will be considering candidates as they apply and we will occasionally close job advertisements early in the event we receive sufficient applicants, so please don’t delay in submitting your application.
 

At Nestlé, our values are rooted in respect – for our employees, our customers and our consumers.  That’s why championing diversity and inclusion is so important to us; when we embrace different perspectives and give everyone the chance to be the best they can be, we can think in new, creative ways that grow and enhance our business. We are committed to equal opportunity for all and we may collect relevant data for monitoring purposes during our candidate registration process.  Be yourself, everyone else is taken!

Right to work in the UK  
In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. The successful candidate therefore must be able to demonstrate their right to work status for the UK during the recruitment process. We have assessed this role and it could be applicable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route. If you do not have the right to work in the UK and you are unable to gain this independently, we may be able to provide sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route in line with the Home office guidelines. We encourage you to review the UK Home Office guidelines ahead of submitting a job application to review whether you meet the eligibility criteria under the Skilled Worker route and understand the immigration fees that you would be responsible for when making a visa application. If you require sponsorship, please discuss this with us as part of the recruitment process.