Vice President of Feed and Nutrition

Description:

Position Summary: The Vice President of Feed and Nutrition is responsible for the executive leadership, development, and management of Passel Farms' Feed and Nutrition function. This position provides strategic direction and oversight for company feed milling operations, nutritional program development, feed quality and safety, ingredient procurement support, toll milling relationships, and nutritional performance analysis. The role is accountable for ensuring a safe, cost-effective, and high-quality feed supply that maximizes animal performance, supports animal health and welfare, and aligns with the company's financial and operational objectives.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Provide executive leadership for company feed milling operations, including production, maintenance, quality assurance, inventory management, and employee development. - Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of nutritional programs for all phases of live production. - Oversee the network of toll mills supplying company production facilities, ensuring quality, capacity, service, and cost competitiveness. - Develop long-term feed manufacturing and nutrition strategies aligned with company growth objectives. - Analyze nutritional, production, and financial performance data to identify opportunities to improve feed efficiency, animal performance, and profitability. - Partner with Veterinary Services and Live Production to optimize health, welfare, and production outcomes. - Develop and manage operating and capital budgets for feed operations. - Evaluate new feed ingredients, nutritional technologies, manufacturing processes, and automation opportunities. - Ensure compliance with feed safety, OSHA, FDA, FSMA, environmental, and applicable regulatory requirements. - Develop supplier relationships and support ingredient sourcing strategies. - Recruit, develop, mentor, and retain high-performing leaders and technical professionals. - Support continuous improvement initiatives across feed manufacturing and live production. - Completes safety training timely. - Follows all Animal Welfare policies and practices and informs management of any violations by staff. - Follows bio-security measures according to Bio-Security Policy, including visitor access, sanitation, and disease prevention measures. - Follows all safety rules and practices and ensures others do the same. - Supports, promotes, and adheres to policies, procedures, and values of Passel Farms and industry standards. - Regular, punctual and consistent attendance is essential for this position. - Other duties as may be assigned to fulfill responsibilities of this position and support team goals.

Key Leadership Competencies:

- Strategic Leadership - Financial and Business Acumen - Operational Excellence - Nutrition and Feed Manufacturing Expertise - Data-Driven Decision Making - People Leadership and Talent Development - Cross-functional Collaboration - Continuous Improvement and Innovation - Supply Chain and Vendor Management - Executive Communication Requirements:

Qualification: Bachelor's degree in Animal Science, Animal Nutrition, Feed Science, Agricultural Engineering, Agribusiness, or related field required; advanced degree preferred. Minimum of 8 years of progressive leadership experience in feed manufacturing, animal nutrition, or integrated livestock production. Strong analytical, financial, leadership, and relationship management skills are required. A qualifying insurable driver’s license must be maintained to drive on behalf of the company. A personal cell phone is required with a monthly reimbursement stipend set by the company.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the functions. The employee must regularly sit, stand, walk, communicate in person and by telephone, and use hands to operate office equipment. During production site visits, the employee must be able to walk on uneven surfaces, climb stairs and catwalks, enter and exit livestock facilities, comply with shower-in/shower-out requirements, wear required PPE, and tolerate typical agricultural environments including dust, humidity, odors, noise, and varying temperatures. The employee must occasionally lift or move up to 25 pounds.

Work Environment: This position is primarily performed in a professional office environment with regular use of standard office equipment. Frequent travel to company offices, production sites, meetings, and industry events is required. Periodic visits to swine production facilities are an essential function of the role. These visits require compliance with all company biosecurity protocols, including shower-in/shower-out procedures, the use of required personal protective equipment (PPE), and direct interaction with live animals and production personnel. The position requires flexibility in work hours to support operational needs, emergency situations, and critical business priorities.