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Division:    Van Beek Nutrition, LLC 
Reports to:    General Manager 
 
 
The Dairy Nutritionist is expected to work under minimum supervision, and to develop 
and maintain dairy and beef accounts in order to increase sales and profits. To gain dairy 
nutrition accounts, implement mineral sales strategies, maintain regular client contact via 
phone calls and personal visits, and to ensure adequate nutritional service to the client. To 
support  company-wide  efforts  to  increase  sales  volume  and  profit  margin  from  the 
assigned  accounts.  The  aforementioned  purposes  should  all  lead  to  the  success  of  the 
primary mission of our company, which is to manufacture and sell high quality mineral 
and vitamin premixes while maintaining a profitable business. 
 
Duties and Responsibilities: 
 
•  Initial Client Contact (20%) 
•  The  Dairy  Nutritionist  is  responsible  for  contacting  farms  that  are  not 
currently  clients  of  the  company,  determining  what  type  of  products 
and/or services would best fit the opportunities at each farm, and utilizing 
this  information  for  a  follow  up  call  within  two  weeks  to  present  the 
services and/or products and pricing being offered to the farm. 
 
•  Work With Dairy Operations as a Nutritionist (65%) 
•  The  primary  responsibility  of  a  Dairy  Nutritionist  is  to  sell  mineral  and 
vitamin  premixes  that  have  been  manufactured  by  our  mineral  plant.  In 
order  to  fulfill  this  responsibility  it  will  be  necessary  for  the  Dairy 
Nutritionist  to  give  nutritional  advice  to,  and  formulate  rations  for  the 
accounts. 
•  The Dairy Nutritionist is responsible for taking feed samples on the farm. 
These  feed  samples  must  be  reviewed  and  incorporated  into  the  ration 
formulated for the farm. The feed samples and information gathered from 
the  farm  must  be  used  by  the  Dairy  Nutritionist  to  formulate  a  custom 
mineral for the farm. 
•  The Dairy Nutritionist’s responsibilities for bidding on a customer mineral 
for  farms  are:  Formulating  the  mineral,  presenting  the  formula  to  the 
Administrative  Team  along  with  any  pertinent  pricing  information, 
obtaining  a  bid  price  for  the  mineral  from  the  Administrative  Team, 
presenting the bid price to the farm in a timely manner. It is ultimately the 
responsibility of the Dairy Nutritionist to set the retail price of the mineral 
and to inform the Administrative Team of that price.  
•  The  Dairy  Nutritionist  must  obtain  a  completed  Credit  Application  from 
the  potential  customer  before  any  mineral  and/or  other  products  may  be 
delivered to the farm.