Job Description

Job title: Professional Affairs Manager, EMEA


Department: Professional Affairs, Marketing


Location: EMEA - onsite at an EMEA office location


Working hours: Monday - Friday

A brighter future awaits you

CooperVision is one of the world's leading manufacturers of soft contact lenses with a presence in over 100 countries. Being part of CooperVision means helping improve the way people see each day. It's more than making contact lenses, it's about giving lens wearers freedom and confidence to move about their daily lives. We're all about bright futures - for our people and those who wear our contact lenses.

Job summary - What to expect:

As the Professional Affairs Manager, EMEA you will be responsible for elevating our scientific presence and capabilities at a regional level. You will plan and manage the development of clinical affairs activity & programmes in the EMEA region, ensuring that organisational objectives are met both regionally and in local markets, and furthering the thought leadership position of the organization within the scientific community. Additionally, you will bring robust credibility to our scientific messaging and ensure regional marketing and professional affairs materials are evidence based and compliant, you will develop and nurture KOL relationships, building on existing relationships and developing new ones.

You will:

Lead the KOL development programme, to support the creation of a pool of new KOL speakers, advocates, and early adopters in local markets. Review all EMEA 'master template' marketing and professional affairs content to ensure compliance against professional affairs protocols. Support local market teams to understand compliant content creation principals relating to professional affairs protocols. Partner with the myopia team to drive thought leadership and elevate scientific credentials. Partner with Global Medical Affairs, to regionally oversee abstracts submitted to conferences. Partner with brand marketing, and category and insights teams, to ensure market research and in-market assessments are conducted using the correct guidelines. Develop new marketing claims based on local research, clinical studies, and externally published papers, which support regional marketing and professional affairs activity. Partner with global marketing and professional affairs teams to push scientific messaging relating to product, navigating IP legal, commercial legal, regulatory, and medical affairs stakeholders. Read and track global peer reviewed articles on CLs, summarising key messages in a quarterly regional update. Create and publish trade articles, advertorials, and non-peer review papers on clinical aspects of CLs. Support brand marketing and professional affairs teams in the development of trade articles which focus on product or category.
A full job description is available upon request.

About you:

We are looking for someone with a minimum of 5 years' experience in optometry or ophthalmology and advanced knowledge of medical writing and publishing peer reviewed content.


A PhD in Optometry is preferred.

Experience & Education:

Experience of compliance/quality assurance review. Experience of designing and delivering training or education programmes to multilevel audiences. Experience delivering messages and presentations to large audiences. Strong business skills and interest in working in a commercial environment. Strong analytical skills. Excellent presentation, communication, networking and influencing skills. Experience of working in an office and team based, fast moving environment. Experience working in regional or global teams an advantage. Experience working in a clinical research setting would be an advantage. Fluent English critical. Other EU languages preferred. Ability to quickly react to change and reprioritize activity based on immediate needs of the business.

Environment:

This role will necessitate frequent international travel to European markets and occasionally to the US west coast. Represent the Company at evening/weekend exhibitions, meetings and seminars as required

What we offer:

You'll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including a competitive salary, bonus and much more!


We are committed to our employees' personal and professional development and offer extensive training to support your career growth and help every individual to reach their full potential. To help us achieve our goals, we'll give you everything you need to help you achieve yours.


We also provide access to LinkedIn Learning to help you develop in you career and grow with CooperVision

If you like what you see, take the first step towards your Brighter Future and apply today! All suitably qualified applicants will receive equal consideration and opportunities from CooperVision.

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