Job Title: Professional Affairs Manager, EMEA
Department: Professional Affairs, Marketing
Location: EMEA – onsite at an EMEA office location
Working Hours: Monday – Friday
About CooperVision
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
The Professional Affairs Manager, EMEA will elevate the scientific presence and capabilities at a regional level. This role plans and manages the development of clinical affairs activity & programmes in the EMEA region, ensuring organizational objectives are met both regionally and locally, and furthering the thought leadership position of the organization within the scientific community. The successful candidate will bring credibility to our scientific messaging and ensure regional marketing and professional affairs materials are evidence-based and compliant. They will develop and nurture Key Opinion Leader (KOL) relationships, building on existing relationships and developing new ones.
Responsibilities:
* 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 with professional affairs protocols.
* Support local market teams to understand compliant content creation principles relating to professional affairs protocols.
* Partner with the myopia team to drive thought leadership and elevate scientific credentials.
* Partner with Global Medical Affairs to oversee abstracts submitted to conferences regionally.
* 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 to support regional marketing and professional affairs activity.
* Collaborate with global marketing and professional affairs teams to push scientific messaging relating to products, navigating legal, regulatory, and medical stakeholders.
* Read and track global peer-reviewed articles on CLs, summarizing key messages in a quarterly regional update.
* Create and publish trade articles, advertorials, and non-peer review papers on clinical aspects of CLs, supporting brand marketing and professional affairs teams.
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 peer-reviewed content publishing. A PhD in Optometry is preferred. The ideal candidate will have experience in compliance / quality assurance review, designing and delivering training or education programmes to multilevel audiences, 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 working in an office and team-based, fast-moving environment, experience in regional or global teams is an advantage, experience in a clinical research setting is an advantage, fluency in English is critical, and other EU languages are preferred.
What We Offer
Competitive salary, bonus, and benefits. Extensive training and development opportunities, including access to LinkedIn Learning. We support your career growth and help you reach your full potential.