Oral Care Consultant

No Relocation Assistance Offered
136500 - Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Do you want to make a difference in the lives of people and their pets? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions?

If this is how you see your career, Hill’s is the place to be

Hill’s Pet Nutrition is a $2.3 Billion, global division of Colgate-Palmolive Company and the maker of Prescription Diet, Science Diet, and Healthy Advantage brand pet food. Our mission is to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets by providing the best leading-edge pet nutrition technology, products, and expertise to pet owners, veterinary professionals and other key pet professionals worldwide. Our company is a globally recognized Best Place to Work.

This position is responsible for develop and manage professional strategy for dentists for elmex brand, for building up and strengthening the scientific image of elmex by building trusting, long-term partnerships and networking with experts, KOLs, academia, dental associations, dentists and millennial dentists, dental students, generating demand to pharmacy,.

He/She works in closely cooperation with elmex OCCs Supervisor. Interacts with Consumer Marketing, Category Retail Marketing Pharma and Customer Management Pharma to develop strategies and tactics and execute against the oral care category generating demand through dentists to pharmacy channel.

Elmex Professional Brand Coordinator plays an important role in positioning elmex in the professional area as an important, scientific, innovative, premium and credible oral care partner who is engaged in improving oral health.

**What you will do**:
**Works together with Professional Oral Care Head to develop the Professional touch-points plan & grid**
- Implement scientific related activities of the global PRO2020 reinforcing elmex scientific credentials and building strong relationships with key dental influencers
- Develop KOL and Academia engagement plan, including digital and millennial
- Sponsors, plans, and organizes activities such as scientific congresses, conferences and symposia, and identifies joint projects to work on with experts, academia and professional associations
- Implement Dental Schools Program & Academia Plan

**Provides scientific support to Consumer Marketing and Detailing**
- Adapts master professional bundle materials for local use including local legal approval.
- Works closely with consumer marketing to develop go-to-market plans to launch elmex products to experts, academia, professional organizations and clinical practices, including post launch performance measurement.
- Develops and delivers training and education to elmex OCCs and others on the scientific background and indication of products, their technology and scientific evidence to ensure the “expert-to-expert” approach according to target group

**Organization and People Management**
- Leads and develops a scientific affairs plan, including academic affairs implementation
- Monitors team dynamics, ensuring that the team is operating efficiently and effectively
- Reviews scientific programs and activities, ensuring optimal deployment of financial resources and quality planning
- Ensures that the OCCs team keeps current on scientific literature and elmex’s technology, products and ingredients
- Fosters the cooperation and coordination between scientific and the detailing/sales team to gain professional endorsements
- Ensures that “Lead with the Profession” imperatives are communicated to the entire team
- Conduct regular monitoring and performance management reviews and develops appropriate training programs to improve individual and team competencies and performance outputs

**Developing Go to Market Strategy**
- Development of a Go to Market Professional Strategy which defines the role of service provides to the professional in integration with pharmacy needs to generate dentists demand.

**Assessment of elmex performance in pharmacy channel and objective-setting**
- Leading the development of a professional strategy linked with pharmacy strategy which seeks to exploit incremental sales growth opportunities in existing, emerging and new pharmacy customers
- Establishing objectives and KPIs for all stakeholders ensuring tracking mechanisms are in place and utilized
- Anticipating, predicting, and proactively responding to competitive moves and tactics to the profession
- Tracking, reviewing and modifying professional plans to ensure elmex is driving consumption and brand objectives are achieved within pharmacy channel and customer P&L guidelines
- Conducting pre and post analyses of customer and channel promotions, developing a library of performance history, and adjusting business plans based on results to drive improved return on investment in all types of trade spending

**Objective setting, activity coordination and