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Animal health organizations recruiting all kinds

The animal health industry is collaborating to bring greater awareness to current talent shortages and future workforce needs.

KC Animal Health Corridor president Kimberly Young tells Brownfield becoming a veterinarian is not the only career that supports animals.

“In animal health, we need microbiologists and manufacturing technicians, and supply chain strategists,” she shares. “We need veterinarians, and we need sales, and finance, and marketers, and storytellers.”

The Kansas City-based nonprofit was developed to support the needs of the more than 300 animal health companies in the region. Young says employee recruiting is a top priority.

“We have a number of projects in the pipeline,” she highlights. “Over $5 billion of investment that we’re finalists for, and all of those are going to be around biomanufacturing jobs.”

Young says the organization has created a workforce campaign and free educational resources to help educators and students explore career pathways in the sector. 

She says making medicine and therapeutics for animals will take all kinds of people from all kinds of backgrounds.