Expert Strategy and Professional Relations Manager M/F

Haleon, a consumer health specialist, is behind iconic brands such as Sensodyne, Parodontax, Aquafresh, ProRhinel, Polident, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum.

Every day, our products improve the lives of millions of people worldwide.

Born from a spin-off from GSK, Haleon is now an independent company specializing in consumer health. We are driven by innovation, trust in science, and the desire to improve consumers' lives.

Do you want to contribute to the success of these globally recognized brands and be part of a company that places innovation and sustainable health at the heart of its priorities?

We are currently recruiting an Expert Strategy and Professional Relations Manager (M/F).

Reporting to the French Marketing Director and in coordination with the Regional Expert Director, your missions are:

• Develop and implement marketing strategies to accelerate healthcare professional recommendations for Haleon brands to achieve the annual revenue target.
• Support and encourage the medical sales force's adherence to the Company's orientations and ensure their implementation.
• Contribute to the construction of activation plans by being the privileged contact for the Marketing & Expert Department and by supervising the Professional Healthcare Relations Marketing Managers.
• Evaluate and develop the skills of your collaborators.

Execution Leader:

• Be proactive with the Marketing Director and the Regional Director for defining medical visit priorities in line with the brand and expert strategy.
• Define and adapt the local expert strategy, in accordance with the global strategy, as well as the challenges and means for the medical visit teams, to ensure the implementation of the plan.
• Ensure the breakdown of challenges and means to the medical visit teams, to ensure the implementation of the plan.
• Ensure excellent local execution and amplification of expert strategies to strengthen expert recommendations.
• Evaluate and optimize the performance of the implemented strategy via relevant measurement tools and share proposals for qualitative and quantitative corrective plans with the Regional Director and the Marketing & Expert Director.
• Manage the expert budget and instill a performance culture in your team to aim to increase the effectiveness of investments.
• Develop an effective long-term relationship and cooperation with the Regional Director to ensure the proper application of the expert strategy in the field and the proper feedback of field needs to the BU.
• Work in close collaboration with marketing & activation managers to ensure synergy across all levers of the marketing mix.
• Ensure good coordination between your teams and the field expert teams & partners (OTC, Mass Market, marketing).

Manager Leader:

• Through your exemplary conduct, embody the company's values and ensure your team adheres to this culture (leadership, responsible autonomy, ethics, exchange and transversality, open communication...).
• Identify the needs and development means necessary for the development of your teams and support the implementation of development plans.
• Engage and animate your team as well as the field teams by embodying the company's values and making them adhere to your vision.
• Contribute to the evolution of the organization by optimizing the adequacy of resources to challenges within the expert network.
• Instill Haleon's change dynamic and mobilize the Regional Director on its implementation.
• Contribute to identifying and developing high-potential collaborators.

Influencer Leader:

• With the Marketing & Expert Director, contribute to the evolution/optimization of the Medical Visit strategy; identify appropriate means to support change and encourage team adherence to the company's strategic orientations (e.g., Optimization of sampling levels provided to healthcare professionals...).
• Coordinate with the Marketing team the development of necessary means for success.
• Implement with the Regional Director and the Professional Healthcare Relations Marketing Managers local plans for oral care brands, focusing on experts (dental surgeons, faculty teachers, dental surgery students, dental assistants, opinion leaders, and others) aligned with local brand strategy.
• Understand, support, challenge, and integrate the challenges and strategies of the Marketing Department.
• Influence global and regional internal teams in strategic orientations by ensuring active presence and participation in international meetings and sharing best practices within the Northern Europe BU.
• Prepare and participate in national congresses in the relevant categories.
• Ensure regular contacts and the best engagement in university schools and dental assistant schools (16 Faculties).
• Create relationships with KEE (Key Opinion Leader) dentists, pharmacists, and pediatricians.
• Develop partnerships with professional dental associations (UFSBD & Comident) and patient associations (AFLAR).
• Actively participate in expert boards for pain and respiratory categories in support of the Medical Director.

Desired Experience:

Master's degree (Bac +5), ideally a dual commercial/scientific curriculum.

Minimum 5 years of experience in a pharmaceutical laboratory, excellent knowledge of healthcare professionals and their expectations.

Fluent English.

Your Benefits

In addition to your remuneration, you will benefit from:

• Access to the company restaurant and concierge services at our Rueil site.
• Health and well-being programs to take care of your physical and mental health.
• A flexible work pace thanks to our telework agreement.
• An advantageous number of paid leave days (32 days per year).

Why join us?

At Haleon, we encourage diversity within our teams by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, sparks curiosity to create an unparalleled understanding of each other, and fosters fair and equitable outcomes for all.

We strive to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all its forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our positions. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore the possibilities with our recruitment team.

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At Haleon we embrace our diverse workforce by creating an inclusive environment that celebrates our unique perspectives, generates curiosity to create unmatched understanding of each other, and promotes fair and equitable outcomes for everyone. We're striving to create a climate where we celebrate our diversity in all forms by treating each other with respect, listening to different viewpoints, supporting our communities, and creating a workplace where your authentic self belongs and thrives. We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Who are we?

Hello. We’re Haleon. A new world-leading consumer healthcare company. Shaped by all of us. Together, we’re improving everyday health for millions of people. By growing and innovating our global portfolio of category-leading brands – including Sensodyne, Panadol, Advil, Voltaren, Theraflu, Otrivin, and Centrum – through a unique combination of deep human understanding and trusted science. What’s more, we’re achieving it in a company that we’re building together. In an environment that we’re co-creating. And a culture that’s uniquely ours. Care to join us. It isn’t a question.