About us
Animalcare Group is an international veterinary pharmaceutical business focused on developing and commercialising differentiated products that improve the health and wellbeing of animals.The Group operates across companion animal, equine, and production animal markets, combining scientific innovation, strong veterinary relationships, and agile commercial execution.
Animalcare’s strategy is centred around:
Main purpose of the job
Animalcare's next phase of growth demands more deliberate strategic direction on which brands to prioritise, which customer segments to pursue, and how to build consistent competitive advantage across different market contexts.
The Group already has strong foundations: a focused portfolio, experienced country teams, and meaningful veterinary relationships across seven European markets. What it needs now is the commercial intelligence to translate that foundation into sustained, scalable performance.This role will:
It is a leadership mandate focused on building the strategic clarity that will underpin Animalcare's next decade of growth
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Key Qualifications & Experience
Strategic Clarity:
Cuts through complexity to define clear choices on where to focus and why. Builds conviction across diverse stakeholders without losing commercial pragmatism or market reality.
Customer & Clinical Insight:
Genuinely understands the veterinary profession, how practitioners think, what drives adoption, and how science-led innovation creates lasting commercial value.
Cross-Functional Influence:
Builds alignment without authority, credible with R&D, Finance, GMs, and the Board. Earns trust through insight and substance, not hierarchy or positional power.
Collaborative Partnership:
Works as a genuine partner to Operational Marketing and GMs brings strategic direction without imposing it, and creates space for local relevance within clear guardrails.
Commercial Rigour:
Anchors strategy in market reality and commercial logic. Strong on portfolio investment cases, competitive positioning, and the link between strategic choice and financial outcome.
Value Led Culture:
Embodies Animalcare's belief that healthy animals benefit owners and society. Brings energy and authenticity to a business that cares deeply about what it builds.
Competencies
Skills
Commercial & Leadership Strengths
A note on the recruitment process
This appointment is being managed by Omni Executive Search Solutions on an exclusive retained basis, led by Jo Lancaster-Towers, Director of Executive Solutions.
All candidates, whether internal or external, will go through the same structured assessment process with Omni. That means every application is evaluated against the same criteria, by the same independent assessor, with no parallel internal process running alongside it.
We've made this decision deliberately. This is a genuinely critical appointment, and we want to give every candidate a fair, rigorous, and professionally managed experience. It also means that whoever we appoint, the decision will be grounded in a consistent, independently governed assessment rather than familiarity or assumption.
If you're interested in being considered, please contact Jo Lancaster-Towers directly at jo.lancaster-towers@omnirms.com. All conversations will be handled in strict confidence.