Title of Position: Professional Development Lead, Vision Care INDIA
Reports to: BUD / General Manager, Vision Care INDIA
PURPOSE Why the position exists?
The Professional Development Lead aims to lead, develop, and guide the integration of educational and curriculum initiatives, with a primary focus on raising the standards of eye health professionals and enhancing awareness and fitting excellence of contact lenses. His/ Her s Key role would be to develop Strategies In line with Countries business objective. Accordingly Plan, Lead and Execute Fitting Training / NPI Launches and track and build data led insights on training
\WORKING RELATIONSHIPS
Internal and external contacts. Internal:
Direct Reporting and Regular engagement with Country BUD
Cluster PD Lead: To empower with all training material and guidance to improve quality and engagement of professional training in the market
Engage with Local Sales Team, Relevant India Cross Functional Team to build road map and execution plans for internal professional training
External:
ECP s of IO s - Top Stores & Medium Stores
ECP s of NKA s - GKB, Lenskart, Titan, Himalaya etc.
Agencies, Trainers, etc.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
1. Education and Curriculum Development:
Lead Develop and Execute Professional strategy in line with country s overall business objectives.
Lead and shape the market professional strategy, market training plans and materials (such as educational 3D animations and videos), in execution of a fully integrated closed-loop professional and patient experience.
Represent India s Professional Lead for Internal stakeholders- Lead cross-functional teams to operationalize business strategies relevant to training that leverage innovation, digital technologies, and new methodologies that generate value, growing category penetration, and achieve business results.
Develop relevant educational materials, tool kits, case studies, trials and ensure strong representation in the partnership stores IO s and NKA s
Lead member of the local copy clearance process to ensure all technical / clinical information of JJVC India materials are factually correct and claims are fully substantiated for both internal and external communications
2. Raising Standards:
Elevate India s standard of education, Trials & execution in-market professional communications & engagement against business plans that grow ACUVUE Brand equity, usage, penetration, consumption, and loyalty.
Co-create with marketing world-class ECP education & certification.
Lead business analysis and development of an annual professional plan & content in line with strategic priorities to grow category and shares, countering competitor activities.
3. Team Leadership:
Lead business-planning sessions, drive marketing initiatives, and act as a team leader managing resources of professional projects.
Coach & mentor members that we will hire on requirement 3P project basis to engage with Key Stores via periodic catch up & project collaboration.
4. Awareness and Fitting Excellence:
Engage, align, and collaborate with Local Vision Care team & STAR Professional Team in leveraging to develop groundbreaking patient & ECP communication campaigns, including online & offline/ in-store and large-scale events
Support & influence the delivery of clinical claims regarding NPI execution and existing products.
5. Stakeholder Engagement and Thought Leadership:
Align, leverage Local/ Star Professional guidance to support sales team gaining focus portfolio MS in Store via training and trails & check through regular - Mystery Shopping and other consumer/ competitor/ professional insight market research studies lead by Marketing
Closely Collaborate to shape in-country efficient Professional Plan and execution and BME allocation for the same - with clear plan tracking of Impact
Lead & represent India key meetings as well as business reviews to maximize support for the country to accelerate growth.
Foster market collaboration & DEI.
WAYS OF WORKING
Three-way transparent communication with local Markets & Cluster Professional Team
Early alignment on key measures of success to ensure efficient use of time and resources
Close working relationship with local Marketing, Sales Team ( IO s and NKA s); Compliance to ensure seamless & impactful execution, while ensuring Business Unit Head is kept informed and involved in key decision making processes
This position plays a pivotal role in advancing education, raising professional standards, and increasing awareness and fitting excellence for contact lenses and ACUVUE brand lenses in the country.
Qualifications
MBA from a premier institute
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