Formulations Nutritionist

Description

At JDH and each of our subsidiaries, we know that agriculture is about more than moving commodities—it’s about connecting people and building relationships that matter. Founded in 1886 and proudly family-owned for five generations, our deep roots in the industry enable us to manage grains, co-products, animal feed, and feed ingredients effectively. With an extensive transportation network, we connect supply and demand across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and Asia. We are committed to delivering reliability, value, and innovation, while providing a supportive and safe workplace where our team can thrive and grow.

Job Summary:  

The Formulations Nutritionist is responsible for supervising and maintaining the integrity of product formulations, feed tags, mixed feed margins and historical data for all of Gold Star Feed & Grain. Excellent communications and attention to detail are crucial. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Closely coordinates with sales and private nutritionist and GM to manage local formulation in the following areas: >Formula maintenance, additions, modifications and deletions, Tag maintenance.
• Manages and maintains contract ingredient specs and pricing.
• Maintains all costs monthly.
• Determines cost formulation of “house” formulas and coordinates mixed feeds into production procedures.
• Responsible for developing daily pricing for sack and bulk, doing daily inventory and rail receiving. Monitors and runs gross margins reports and expense reports.
• Coordinates with the Mixed Feed Purchasing to monitor average daily usage of individual formulation ingredients.
• Coordinates with Operations to capture “best value” for returned feeds and reruns in formulation.
• Coordinates with the GM in implementing monthly formula ingredient pricing and margin management and inventory control.
• Facilitate ingredients substitutions when needed.
• Develop new procedures for keeping track of customers’ patterns as well as formulation changes monitoring.
• Support the outside nutrition staff in developing a new customer base.
• Maintaining close contact with customers to keep customer contracts in formulas current.
• Coordinates with operations and purchasing teams on least-costing for inventories at plants
• Comply with the companies Safety and Health policies as listed in the Employee Handbook 
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Animal Science, Animal Nutrition, or a related field required. 
• Masters degree in Ruminant Nutrition with extensive dairy nutrition, herd health and application experience preferred.
• Successful candidate will have dairy industry/marketplace knowledge and strong agricultural business aptitude.
• 2-4 years’ experience in formulation preferred.
• Strong computer skills.
• Strong customer service commitment.
• Ability to work effectively as a team member with the ability to effectively train staff members, customers, and sales/nutrition representatives.
• Must have superior verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot, problem solve, and follow up is required.

Physical Demands 

· Frequent sitting, use of computer, communication via telephone

· Ability to navigate an office environment.

· Ability to travel within the United States.