Forage and Ruminant Digital Assistant

Main Functions

The Forage Additives & Ruminant Digital Assistant will report to the Global Forage Additives Marketing Coordinator and will also assist the Global Ruminant Marketing team. The candidate will support two teams, who both have products in the dairy and beef markets. The primary responsibilities are to help facilitate file administration into global digital platforms, such as a documentation management system, photo /video library , e-learning platforms and eshop. This position also will support some digital marketing missions to increase our visibility including posting website content, e-newsletter creation and diffusion and coordinating social media posts.

This person must have excellent interpersonal and English communication skills and the desire to work on a global team that is spread around the world.

Administrative support associated with this position include but not limited to:

• Managing files in internal documentation management system (Wordpress) and on Sharepoint;
• Managing forage and ruminant photo and video files in a new library;
• Supporting webinar invitations, logistics and analytics;
• Assisting in optimizing internal organization in Microsoft Teams.

Digital marketing tasks include:

• Formatting and diffusing e-newsletters;
• Composing and scheduling posts on social media based on provided content;
• Helping with coordination of local translations on global educational websites;
• Assisting with website content integration (Wordpress);
• Helping on improving look and feel Powerpoint presentations;
• Updating/correcting product documentation (Adobe Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop).

 

Technical skills

Required

• Bachelor degree required in Marketing/ data management / administration
• Must be able to demonstrate English writing and speaking capabilities

An asset

• Experience with Word Press, Microsoft Click Dimensions, Microsoft Teams would be an asset
• Skilled in the use of Microsoft Powerpoint (Design) and Adobe Indesign would be an asset
• Agriculture (Dairy, Beef, Forage) biotechnology, science industry knowledge is a plus

Personal abilities

Required

• Organized, structured, detail oriented
• Autonomy and self-motivation
• Communicative
• Ability to work independently with remote team, take initiative
• Effectively communicate and publish timelines and key summaries to all stakeholders in a clear fashion as the project evolves
• Team spirit

General criteria

Required

• 5-10 % travel

Organization

Lallemand is a privately held Canadian company, founded at the end of the 19th century, specializing in the development, production and marketing of yeasts and bacteria. The company is comprised of 11 major business units, each focused on specific applications of yeast and bacteria, with activities throughout worldwide. Administrative offices for the parent company are in Montreal, Canada. Today, Lallemand employs more than 4500 people working across more than 45 countries, on 5 continents.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition is committed to optimizing animal performance and wellbeing with specific microbial product and service solutions. We develop, produce and market silage additives, probiotics, antioxidants and yeast derivatives for animal nutrition, as well as microbial solutions for animal environment. We serve all livestock markets: ruminant, swine, poultry, aquaculture as well as equine and companion animals. We like to define ourselves as a “field-led science supported” company. As such, our solutions are supported by a strong commitment to R&D and technical support with a team of experts in the field. Our solutions are marketed in over 80 countries around the world, through our own sales teams or local distributors.