Discovery Researcher – Ruminant

🕒 September 1

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

❄️ Minnesota – Remote

💵 $105k - $175k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Zinpro Corporation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1971

🌾 Agriculture

🤝 B2B

Agriculture • B2B

Zinpro is a company that develops and supplies performance trace minerals, nutrition supplements and related products and services to improve animal health, wellbeing and productivity across multiple livestock and companion species. With more than 50 years of research and hundreds of peer‑reviewed studies, Zinpro offers a broad product portfolio (e. g. , Zinpro Performance Minerals, Availa, IsoFerm), technical services and digital tools (BlueBox, H20 Water Analysis Program, digital dermatitis tools) aimed at producers in dairy, beef, poultry, swine, aquaculture, equine and companion animal markets. The company emphasizes R&D, sustainability and producer partnerships to optimize production outcomes.

📋 Description

• Support development of new products, tools and services for ruminant nutrition through applied research, technical service and opportunity identification • Create new products, tools and services through exploration and identification of opportunities • Support current lines of research under the supervision of the R&D Ruminant manager • Provide technical service support to global ruminant technical sales teams and account managers • Support development of technical marketing content and research summaries • Advance digital tools for data management, analysis and reporting • Organize, follow up and develop research projects with external entities • Create a collaboration network with universities and other research entities • Support development of Zinpro’s innovation laboratory centers • Contribute to global initiatives and provide support across regions as needed • Travel approximately 50% for research and technical support functions, including occasional international travel

🎯 Requirements

• Ph.D. degree with focus on nutrition • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the development of novel chemical compounds for use in animals • Understands scientific inference and can apply major statistical procedures using SAS, R or similar tools • Strong understanding of ruminant physiology and the practical application of field nutrition • Knowledge of major diet formulation systems • Comfortable using different farm management software • Interest in bridging basic knowledge to practice and effectively communicating to general as well as scientific audiences • Ability to work independently and under supervision • Ability to thrive in a team-oriented work environment • Experience in international travel • Ability to work remotely from Zinpro’s global footprint • Ability to travel up to 50% of working days • Ability to work during regular business hours, potentially across different time zones

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid healthcare • Generous paid time off • Education assistance • Retirement planning • 401(k) • Disability insurance • Long-term care insurance • Travel assistance • Fitness reimbursement • Gift matching • Bonus eligibility