Dairy Nutritionist
Job Purpose and Impact
The Dairy Nutritionist should have technical expertise and science-driven insights to design, evaluate, and optimize dairy feed formulations. In this role, you will support raw material selection, feed program design, and diet modifications to improve ruminant performance, health, feed efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. You will also provide analytical and advisory services to R&D, production, and commercial teams on key dairy nutritional considerations. You should be able to learn and adopt Cargill’s nutrition system and apply it in your feed formulations for precise nutrition.
Key Accountabilities
• Formulate and optimize dairy feed formulation based on raw material quality, nutrient specifications, cost targets, and production goals.
• Monitor and evaluate feed quality in alignment with quality team, ingredient variability, and nutritional consistency to ensure feed meet required nutrient specifications and performance standards.
• Analyse performance data and recommend nutritional interventions to address production challenges.
• Maintain and update nutritional databases (ingredients, feed formulations, nutrient matrices) using laboratory data and industry benchmarks.
• Collaborate with Cargill’s Global Nutrition experts and commercial teams to incorporate market trends, ingredient availability, and cost optimization strategies.
• Conduct trials at Cargill’s Technology Application Centre and support field trials to validate feed formulations, additives, and nutritional strategies and create scientific trial reports.
• Collaborate with Sourcing, Formulation, R&D and global team to develop new ingredients.
• Collaborate with cluster marketing specialists to understand emerging nutritional requirement of cluster and develop right nutritional strategy for that cluster.
• Independently solve moderately complex nutritional and production issues, escalating more complex concerns to global experts when required.
• Deliver technical presentations, training sessions, and documentation to internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• M.V.Sc (Animal Nutrition).
• Minimum 8 years of experience in dairy nutrition, feed formulation and dairy industry.
• Demonstrated knowledge of dairy nutritional requirements and feed ingredient evaluation.
• Knowledge of alternative ingredients, feed additives and dairy critical nutrients.
• Other minimum qualifications may apply.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• Ph.D. (Animal Nutrition).
• Experience in commercial dairy operations or feed industry.
• Experience with feed formulation software and nutritional modelling.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong data analysis and interpretation skills.
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