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For 40 years, the teams at Audevard have been supporting equine vets in their daily practice by offering comprehensive and innovative therapeutic solutions, underpinned by the company’s vast expertise in equine health.
Through a series of portraits, Laboratoires Audevard is introducing the men and women who every day place their skills and talents at the service of equine vets in France and abroad.
Discover the portrait of Hadrien Manet, Veterinary Technical Advisor for France
A career focused on equine veterinary practice
I wanted to be a vet from a very young age and have always had a passion for horses.
I began my life as a vet at the Nantes School of Veterinary Medicine (Oniris), after three years of preparatory studies. During my time there I was drawn towards equine surgery and orthopaedics and was keen to develop my skills in these areas. I completed my studies with an equine internship at the Saint Hyacinthe Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Quebec. Living in Canada for a year was an enriching personal experience, as I was studying in the company of fellow interns and learning from a team of teachers who were passionate about their subject.
After returning to France, I joined the Boisrie Vet Practice in the Orne department - a clinic focused on thoroughbred breeding - then started working at the Saint Lo Vet Practice, in the Manche department. I enjoyed a varied daily routine in areas such as seasonal breeding and reproduction, monitoring the musculoskeletal system of sport horses, general medicine, hospitalisations and surgery and, of course, medicine in the field for horses and donkeys.
The real advantage of this career path is that it has allowed me to explore a number of areas and a range of veterinary practices.
I then decided to expand my experience to an area upstream from the life as a practicing vet, i.e. the production of health products. And that’s how this adventure started at Audevard.
An exciting and multi-faceted job
I have been a Technical Veterinary Advisor for France for almost four years now. My role is to provide a link between the raw knowledge of research products and the use of medicines in the field. I enjoy being the point of contact for our veterinary customers for all types of technical information relating to our products.
Being a Technical Vet Advisor is also a bit of an adventure as I organise training courses in veterinary practices (4-6 courses a week all across France). My job also involves looking at a large number of scientific studies and, in just four years, I have amassed over 1600 studies in my digital library. The work can also be creative as I prepare communication materials (used by our Salesforce team), in collaboration with the Product Managers.
Finally, I am involved in preparing for the future with the Innovation team. We discuss development pipelines for new products and I use know-how from the field, existing publications and information obtained from scientific conferences to offer the best possible advice to the team.
Sharing and humanity at the heart of the Technical Veterinary profession
My favourite part of the job is the training courses I organise at a range of different veterinary practices. Each time I feel like I’m setting off on a little adventure. Sharing knowledge and meeting new vets really provides me with a boost of energy. I feel that my work complements the job of a practicing vet, which makes it extremely stimulating. I feel like I am constantly evolving as every day I learn something new and I am able to share, meet new people and be part of a real team. This proximity to veterinary practice is something I am passionate about. When I left my ‘hands-on’ practice, my greatest fear was that I would no longer feel like a ‘vet’.
Today, I still feel very much a veterinary surgeon. The aim of my job is to support my veterinary colleagues in the field. My goal is to provide them with reliable information about our products, gleaned from publications and clinical research, as well as practical information on the ground. I try my best summarising the latest research for our vets, which helps them save time – a resource that is always in short supply. By giving them all the information they need to make the right decisions on the ground and make the best choices for the health of their horses, I hope to give them peace of mind.
And since tomorrow is being prepared today, my role is to listen, compile and find out about what vets need to prepare for tomorrow and develop new solutions perfectly tailored to the health needs of horses.
Audevard, dynamism and expertise as strengths
Audevard’s enormous strength lies in its equine expertise. Audevard exists for 40 years, meaning it has a real wealth of knowledge to pass on. Everyone knows their job inside out and we're all working towards a common goal: improving the health of our horses.
Audevard offers a real veterinary culture and has teams solely dedicated to vets composed of both fellow veterinarians working alongside people from different backgrounds. Ultimately, this fosters a real sense of cohesion and produces both practical and effective ideas to improve the health of horses in the field. Dynamism is also a key advantage at Audevard and the size of the company (i.e. not too big or too small) enables it to bring projects to fruition in a short space of time.
Finally, one of Audevard’s crucial assets is its ability to develop, upskill and increase the responsibilities of its teams, making you feel you are constantly developing, which is extremely stimulating.
Audevard, for 40 years dedicated to horses and those who take care of them.
In Equine Vets We Trust
