About Us

Moorella Ag Holdings operates and supports a growing network of beef cattle producers across Australia. We combine practical, profitable beef production with serious investment in genetics, data and animal-science research. Our work spans commercial trading and agistment, seedstock genetics, and the development of next-generation genetic-evaluation tools. We are building the kind of evidence base that lets producers make better feeding and breeding decisions, season after season.

Moorella, together with our university and collaborative partners, is building a multi-omic large language model for use in beef and sheep genetic evaluation. This role is a central scientific contributor to that program.

We are looking for an animal scientist who wants to keep one foot in rigorous research and the other in the paddock — translating metabolism and nutrition science into decisions that move kilograms, fertility and margin across real herds.

About the Role

This role leads the nutrition function across our producer network and serves as a core scientific contributor to a flagship five-year research collaboration. You will design and run applied nutrition studies, turn findings into feeding guidance producers can actually use, and help build the data and biological understanding that underpins a recent multi-omic large language model for beef and sheep genetic evaluation.

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

· Design, run and interpret nutrition and metabolism studies in beef cattle across the network, with scope to extend into ruminant comparisons where relevant.

· Develop and refine practical feeding strategies and guidelines for energy and protein nutrition, tailored to seasonal conditions and production stage.

· Provide technical support to producers — translating research outcomes into clear, on-farm feeding decisions and protocols.

· Evaluate feed additives,



supplementation strategies and ration approaches for performance, efficiency and economic return.

· Build the nutrition data discipline (capture, structure, quality) needed to feed both decision tools and the research program

· Coordinate nutrition activities across the network and help shape the technical and research strategy.

· Act as a credible technical voice with producers, partners and external stakeholders — including in a business-development and technical-sales capacity.

· Mentor and, over time, help build a small technical team as the program grows.

About you!

Essential to your success in this role includes:

- A PhD in animal nutrition / animal science / Agrobio science with a focus on ruminant energy and/or protein metabolism

- Demonstrated experience designing and running nutrition or metabolism studies in cattle, ideally sheep, and interpreting complex physiological data

- Experience translating research into practical feeding guides and decisions for producers to use

- Familiarity with metabolomic, metagenomic or other omics datasets, and an appetite to work at the interface of nutrition and genetic evaluation

- Strong technical-communication skills across both scientific and commercial audiences, including technical sales or extension experience

- Practical, paddock-credible understanding of beef cattle production systems

- Willingness to travel within Australia and internationally, and to work across the producer network

- International technical-sales,



business-development or product-development experience in animal nutrition (e.g. feed additives or specialty ingredients).

- Experience taking a product, study or program from concept through to market or field application.

- Working knowledge of genomic or multi-omic approaches to genetic evaluation.

- Ability to speak additional languages outside of English would be beneficial for international collaboration and partner relationships

- A genuine interest in practical farming and livestock outside of the science

This role would suit someone with a doctoral-level grounding in ruminant nutrition and metabolism, commercial technical-sales or extension experience, and comfort levels of moving between a metabolomics dataset and a set of cattle yards

What We Offer

- A role that genuinely blends frontier research with applied, profitable beef production.

- A central part in a funded, multi-year program building tools that don’t yet exist in the industry.

- Direct access to a real producer network as your applied research base — not just a lab or a plot.

- Collaboration with leading university and industry partners.

- Scope to grow into broader scientific and team leadership as the program scales.

- Competitive remuneration, relocation support and visa sponsorship for the right candidate.

To Apply

- Applications should include a CV and a covering letter outlining your research background, your applied nutrition experience, and what draws you to working at the interface of nutrition science and genetic evaluation.

- Moorella Ag Holdings Pty Ltd is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds and are happy to support relocation to Australia.

Pay: $90,000.00 – $142,000.00 per year

Benefits

- Maternity leave
- Travel reimbursement

Work Location: In person

📌 Research Nutrition Manager – Beef Production (Wangaratta)
🏢 Moorella Ag Holdings
📍 Wangaratta