Job Description

Interested in a career that matters?

Interested in a career that matters?

Do you enjoy helping businesses make better strategic choices? Are you energized by uncovering growth opportunities, shaping portfolio strategy, and influencing commercial decisions in the animal health and nutrition market?

At Novonesis, we help our customers improve animal health, productivity, and sustainability through innovative biosolutions. As Senior Manager, Market Strategy & Portfolio Management, for our North America Animal group, you will play a critical role in defining where we compete, how we win, and where we invest across our North American Animal business. Working closely with commercial leaders, global partners, and cross-functional teams, you will help shape the strategies that drive long-term growth and profitability across beef cattle, dairy, silage, swine, poultry, and pet markets.

The Role & Your Impact

As a member of the North American Animal Leadership Team, you will bring an independent strategic perspective to commercial decision-making while helping align regional and global priorities. This highly visible role combines market strategy, portfolio management, pricing leadership, team development, and commercialization to drive sustainable business growth.

Key responsibilities include:

• Set the North American market and portfolio strategy across beef, dairy, silage, swine, poultry, and pet, identifying the priorities and choices that will drive sustainable growth and profitability.
• Lead and develop the Animal regional marketing team, translating market strategy into clear priorities for marketing communications, sales enablement, trade shows, and customer engagement while guiding the effective use of the regional marketing budget.
• Serve as a senior strategic partner on the commercial leadership team by bringing an independent point of view, challenging assumptions, and guiding decisions on markets, customers, pricing, and investments.
• Own portfolio performance and strategic planning using market, customer, competitive, and financial insights to recommend where to invest, position, build, partner, or deprioritize.
• Identify and shape new growth opportunities including market white spaces, portfolio gaps, new segments, channel opportunities, and unmet customer needs, and build the case for action.
• Set the commercial strategy for priority product launches, aligning sales, technical, global marketing, and other teams around target customers, positioning, pricing, adoption plans, and measures of success.
• Guide strategic pricing and major customer negotiations, helping account teams evaluate value, competitive position, profitability, trade-offs, and long-term business potential.
• Represent North America in senior regional and global forums influencing portfolio, innovation, investment, and commercial priorities while mobilizing cross-functional teams to deliver agreed plans.

What You’ll Need to Be Successful

• Bachelor's degree in Animal Science, Agriculture, Business, Marketing, or a related field. MBA, Master's degree, or other advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum 12 years of progressive experience within animal nutrition, animal health, feed additives, livestock production, agribusiness, or a closely related industry.
• Previous people leadership experience, including developing talent and leading commercial or marketing professionals.
• Significant experience in strategic marketing, portfolio management, commercial strategy, business development, product management, or a combination of these disciplines.
• Demonstrated success developing growth strategies and influencing senior leaders on commercial, portfolio, and investment decisions.
• Strong knowledge of animal production segments, with the ability to build credibility across beef, dairy, silage, swine, poultry, and pet markets.
• Experience leading strategic pricing initiatives, product commercialization efforts, market development programs, and complex customer opportunities.
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to translate complex market insights into clear business recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing capabilities.
• Proven ability to lead through influence and align diverse cross-functional teams around shared priorities.

What We Offer

At Novonesis, you will have the opportunity to influence strategic decisions that shape the future of our Animal business across North America. You will work alongside experienced commercial, technical, and global leaders while contributing to solutions that support sustainable food production and animal performance.

We offer:

• A highly visible leadership role with significant strategic impact.
• Opportunities to influence regional and global business priorities.
• Collaboration with talented colleagues across commercial, technical, and innovation teams.
• A purpose-driven culture focused on innovation, sustainability, and continuous growth.
• Professional development opportunities and the chance to expand your leadership capabilities within a global organization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Estimated salary range: $180,000-$200,000 plus a 15% bonus
• 401(k) with up to a 9% company contribution
• Minimum of 3 weeks of vacation plus 12 holidays and 2 weeks of Wellness Time 
• Health, Dental, Vision & Life insurance  
• Healthcare savings account option
• Employee assistance program 
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement 
• All benefits begin on your first day

Relevant Information

Location: Franklinton, NC (Hybrid)

Application Deadline: November 25, 2026

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Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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