Health Service Lead

Pig Improvement Company (PIC) - Philippines; Manila; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Genus PIC Philippines seeks a Health Services Lead to drive health strategies for swine operations, partnering with veterinarians and account teams to enhance disease prevention and biosecurity. You will oversee diagnostic, preventive plans and field projects to improve production outcomes.

The role requires veterinary expertise, leadership, strong communication, and willingness to travel to support customers across multiple farms.

Qualifications

• Degree in Veterinary Medicine.
• Experience in swine health, production systems, epidemiology, diagnostics, and biosecurity.
• Leadership, project management and stakeholder influencing skills.
• Strong analytical, communication and problem-solving abilities.
• Willingness to travel regularly.

Responsibilities

• Partner with account managers and teams to develop plans to achieve account goals.
• Lead and develop Health Services to improve health and biosecurity programs.
• Serve as a trusted resource for diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive plans with customers and veterinarians.
• Develop health improvement strategies to reduce disease impact on production.
• Promote biosecurity with science-based practices, training and monitoring.
• Understand food chain safety and the role of farms and producers.
• Influence business strategies affecting herd health like depopulation and expansion.
• Develop health strategies to improve profitability and ROI with genetics.
• Communicate and implement Genus/PIC health, management and nutrition guidelines.
• Support accounts to ensure optimum health and performance on mature and start-up farms.
• Identify health and production projects, including gilt selection, feed efficiency and pig output.
• Participate in field research trials or data analyses to improve production guidelines.

Education

Degree in Veterinary Medicine

Tools

Molecular diagnostics

Job description

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

Qualifications

• 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.

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.