Work Together. Amaze. Grow. These aren’t just words in our corporate motto – they’re the WAG values we live by. We are approachable, ambitious animal lovers on a mission to provide the best quality of care to pets by empowering the practitioners we support every day. Established in 2014, we have more than 380 locations that provide the hishest quality personalized care, with exceptional hospitality for clients and their pets. We provide a support network for the business side of animal care and medicine, and trust our practitioners and professionals to care for their communities, clients, and their pets based upon their unique, local, community-focused standards of care.
Birmingham, AL
“Grow” is also a core value – Collectively as a company, as teams within departments, and as individuals, we are always growing our skills, capabilities, knowledge, as fast, or faster, than we are growing our footprint across the country. We are also growing with a significant focus upon scalability, sustainability, and data-driven decision making. However, none of that works without the amazing teammates at the heart of this company. We hire, engage, and retain the best in the industry (and have the best DVM retention rate in the industry) by empowering people to use their expertise to own their roles, their career, and their success.
We live our core WAG values (Work Together. Amaze. Grow.) every day. Working together, amazing each other, and growing together are critical to the success of every single person on this team, and our success as a company. We work hard, we play hard, and we always recognize that our purpose is to enable and empower those who work on the front lines of animal care and animal health to do their best work, providing personalized care with exceptional hospitality. We are Amazing Together.
Dr. Jay Price is the only General Practice Veterinarian leading a company like ours in the nation. As a founder, and the CEO of SVP, having taken the company through rounds of investment, he chooses to stay and invest his time and energy both due to his love of, and dedication to, Veterinary medicine and its practitioners, and his desire to create a broad and lasting positive impact for those who have invested their time and efforts as SVP teammates. He embodies WAG values, and emphasizes and rewards them across the company. He will give up his chair to make sure everyone has a seat at the table, and prefers to shine a light on others’ accomplishments rather than his own. He never backs down from a challenge, and always supports teammates going through challenges of their own.
We work in a relatively flat environment. While we all have leadership, and work in functional teams, every person in this company is empowered to reach out to teammates at any level with thoughts, concerns, and ideas. Our C-suite (we call them the Senior Leadership Team) is accessible and available to virtually anyone in the company who needs to speak with them. We equally value how we get things done, as well as the results we deliver, and there is less focus on “who gets credit” than on what we accomplish together.
“Work Together” is our first core value at SVP. We work closely in cross-functional teams to accomplish common goals – whether it’s the care of a pet, the acquisition or launch of a new hospital, or the creation and roll out of a new capability that supports our field teams. We are goal- and delivery- oriented, with a high level of “get stuff done” valued among all of our teams. We respect each others’ expertise and skills, and highly value collaboration as we are focused on delivering results.
We support our teammates with health, dental, vision, critical illness, life, accident, hospital indemnity, long and short term disability insurance. We provide paid time off, including industry-leading TruePTO for DVMs (with no production make-up). We provide DVM maternity leave, and support programs for those teammates who are caring for elderly, going through life events like divorce, birth of a child, moving to a new community, buying or selling a home. We provide mental health counseling to support teammates through difficult life events, as well as a hefty 401k match, and support with retirement planning. We provide significant support for career growth and education (see above!), and through all this, focus on living our WAG values in how we work together and collaborate every day.
People!
It’s all for the animals
We are dedicated to our mission
1) The leadership team, specifically the c-suite level, are some of the most amazing people that truly care about their employees.
2) The fantastic growth that this company has experienced has allowed for more opportunities for individual growth and creative thinking to develop new processes.
3) We have a unique culture that you can't find just anywhere--we work hard but play hard too!
Work/life balance, growth opportunities, amazing teammates
Laidback and fun culture
Hard work is recognized and appreciated
Fabulous leaders and CEO
Everyday I'm challenged to do better than the previous day (in a good way!).
Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well as we're encouraged to think differently and creatively to find solutions to problems or find opportunities.
The people - it truly is a big family that would do anything for one another.
1) The culture at SVP is truly one of a kind - for a company this size, it feels like family. We work hard and celebrate successes with our cohorts on a regular basis.
2) SVP is a very collaborate workplace. Teammates are encouraged to "lead from their seat" and bring new ideas to their managers.
3) SVP is a very flexible workplace - nearly all Home Office employees work from the office as well as their homes on a regular basis.
My teammates are great and enjoy working with them, fast-growing company, and providing snacks and Friday lunch.
1. They company lives it values
2. My co-workers are intelligent amazing people that I truly enjoy spending time with
3. Upper management really cares about getting to know every employee. Jay Price, our CEO, has gone out of his way to get to know me and I see him do the same for everyone who works for SVP. This attitude has spread through our whole leadership team.