Job Description

Job Description:

Veterinary Business Manager

  • Field based

  • Territory area: Lincolnshire-Nottingham-Derby-Doncaster-Grimsby-Mansfield

  • £38,000 -£40,000 base salary plus personal & company performance bonus up to 20%

  • Company car

  • Exciting opportunities to engage with pet professionals and enthusiasts at 2-3 key industry events per year (some weekend work involved)

Are you passionate about animal health and nutrition? Ready to make a difference in veterinary practices? At Royal Canin, we’re looking for a dynamic veterinary business manager to drive sales growth and enhance the well-being of pets through nutritional recommendations.

The primary purpose of this position is to be responsible for delivering territory sales growth and securing the clinical recommendation of Royal Canin products in line with the veterinary pillar strategy.

What are we looking for?

  • Sales Enthusiasm: Proven sales experience or a strong desire to learn and achieve.

  • Nutritional Savvy: Confidence in understanding and presenting nutritional information.

  • Skills: Strong presentation, communication and IT skills (proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc.) to support effective sales analysis and management of the territory

  • Driver’s License: A clean driving record is required.

  • Direct Experience: In related companies or working within the veterinary industry preferable

What would be your key responsibilities?

  • Ignite Growth: Achieve sales goals by utilizing your strong selling skills to meet the unique needs of veterinary clinics.

  • Build Relationships: Develop and nurture partnerships with key clinic individuals, identifying new opportunities to recommend our premium therapeutic diets.

  • Educate: Veterinary staff on nutrition by being an expert in veterinary product knowledge and utilising available training tools

  • Collaborate & Innovate: Work closely with your team and contribute valuable customer insights to shape strategies that benefit both clinics and pet owners.

  • Engage & Educate: Participate in trade shows and conferences, delivering impactful training on nutritional benefits to support clinics.

  • Stay Organized: Manage weekly reporting and maintain activity logs to keep your initiatives on track, including pre-call planning with defined objectives and delivery of sales coverage model objectives (frequency of visits, level of service etc.)

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles.

Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today

Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

About Mars

Mars is a family-owned business with more than $35 billion in global sales. We produce some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and COCOAVIA®. Alongside our consumer brands, we proudly take care of half of the world’s pets through our nutrition, health and services businesses such as Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, AniCura, VCA™ and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our 130,000 Associates into taking action every day towards creating the world we want tomorrow.

Ready to make an impact? If you’re motivated, enthusiastic, and eager to drive positive change in the veterinary field, we want to hear from you!

Company benefits

Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Sabbaticals
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
Enhanced paternity leave – 26 weeks at 90% pay
24 days annual leave + bank holidays
“Pawternity” leave
Pregnancy loss leave
Bank holiday swaps
Shared parental leave
Adoption leave
Family health insurance
Pregnancy support
Neo-natal leave
Faith rooms
Meditation space
Dog friendly office
Dog friendly co-working space
Annual bonus
Employee discounts
Cinema discounts
Referral bonus
Joining bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Theme park discounts
Lunch and learns
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Studying sabbaticals
Open to part time work for some roles

Working at Mars UK

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4,000 In the UK

Gender diversity (m:f):

57:43

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