Overview
NAM Senior Poultry Technical Manager – USA
Job Title: NAM Senior Poultry Technical Manager
About the role
Are you an experienced poultry nutrition specialist with deep knowledge of the North American broiler market? As our NAM Senior Poultry Technical Manager, you will strengthen AB Vista’s technical presence across North America. You’ll act as a senior technical partner to the regional business, helping customers understand and apply our solutions in practical, field-based ways. This externally facing role requires substantial market knowledge, a strong nutrition background, and the credibility to engage producers, nutritionists and technical teams. You will contribute to technical strategy, support customer development, and help adapt proven approaches to the North American market. The role is home-based in the US with significant travel (40–50%) across the region and Canada.
What you’ll be doing
- Serve as the senior technical lead for poultry in North America, with a strong emphasis on the broiler segment and the major producers operating in the region.
- Build technical credibility with customers by leading discussions on poultry nutrition, product application, feeding strategies and performance outcomes.
- Support the early and middle stages of the commercial process by using technical expertise to open doors, shape customer conversations and help move opportunities forward toward trials and adoption.
- Contribute to the design, adaptation and follow-up of technical trials, ensuring protocols are relevant for North American customers and aligned with local production realities.
- Maintain active visibility in the market through customer visits, technical discussions and industry engagement across North America.
What we’re looking for
- Extensive experience in poultry nutrition, with a strong preference for candidates who bring deep expertise in broiler nutrition within the North American market.
- A strong technical background in animal nutrition, with the ability to discuss formulation, nutritional strategy and how nutrition influences bird health and performance.
- Senior-level experience, typically gained over many years in technical roles supporting poultry production, customer-facing technical management or closely related positions.
- Strong understanding of the US poultry industry, including key producers, customer expectations and the practical realities of working in this market.
- Strong communication and influencing skills, with the presence and credibility to engage a wide range of customer contacts and internal stakeholders.
Where growth meets purpose
What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that’s because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together, we’re shaping a world where responsible nutrition is accessible to all. With a big goal comes equally big opportunities to make a career that truly feels like your own. As a team we’re collaborative, purpose-driven and encourage trying new ideas. We also find ways to nourish your individual journey, so everyone can feel proud of the difference that they make in their own way.
We’re thrilled to share that AB Agri has been recognised as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. This is a proud moment for us all. It highlights the real progress we’ve made to build a workplace that is inclusive, supportive, and fair for everyone. Over the last 5 years we have rebuilt our talent management practices, from inclusive hiring, to transparent pay frameworks, flexible work, and the momentum of our Employee Network Groups. Our actions are embedding inclusion at the heart of how we operate and creating a culture where people can be themselves
As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.
About the Company
We’re looking for trail-blazers, non-conformists, innovators.
When you join us, you’ll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, company car/allowance, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.
About us
We’re AB Vista an animal nutrition technology company offering pioneering products and technical services to the global animal feed industry. We’re part of the AB Agri community of leading animal nutrition products and services businesses.
We’re part of AB Agri, the agricultural division of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we’re passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology-based products, and offering data services for the agri-food industry.
Application Notes
We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we’d love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.
When you do, we’ll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won’t affect your application.
Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.
Agencies and media sales
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