Bausch + Lomb Hiring for Manager, Professional Relations at Akron, Ohio Full Time

Bausch + Lomb (NYSE/TSX: BLCO) is a leading global eye health company dedicated to protecting and enhancing the gift of sight for millions of people around the worldfrom the moment of birth through every phase of life. Our mission is simple, yet powerful: helping you see better, to live better.

Our comprehensive portfolio of over 400 products is fully integrated and built to serve our customers across the full spectrum of their eye health needs throughout their lives. Our iconic brand is built on the deep trust and loyalty of our customers established over our nearly 170-year history. We have a significant global research, development, manufacturing and commercial footprint of approximately 12,500 employees and a presence in approximately 100 countries , extending our reach to billions of potential customers across the globe. We have long been associated with many of the most significant advances in eye health, and we believe we are well positioned to continue leading the advancement of eye health in the future.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as commercial lead for strategically identifying ideal collaboration/sponsorship opportunities and subsequently organizing all peer-to-peer activity for engagement with the optometric community at live (not necessarily only in-person) meetings. Meetings may include; local and nationally recognized meetings, appropriate optometry congresses and national association engagement

• Support for key associations including, but not limited to AOA, GSLS, AAOpt, VEE, VEW, SECO, ICSC, Multiple State Association Meetings, ad-hoc meeting opportunities relevant to product/portfolio focus

• Commercial lead activities including, but not limited to; contextual development, advocate speaker identification and management, awareness asset coordination.

• Speaker Bureau Oversight and Management

• Collaborate with Sales/Marketing leaders to define and execute speaker bureau strategy

• Lead strategic content development and execution with cross functional support

• Responsibility and oversight for speaker bureau budget with focus on speaker support, optimizing processes, maximizing ROI

• Evaluation and management of strategic speaker support ensuring optimal representation across all business needs.

• Academic Institution Lead

• Develop or strengthen partnerships within academic institutions

• Optimize promotional communications to the optometric student audience

• Marketing Support

• Collaborates with cross functional team members to develop and implement strategies in support of marketed products, launches, and development projects

• Integrate and leverage extensive knowledge of the company, market and industry practices and trends to guide business and marketing strategies and drive top line growth.

• Anticipates key marketplace trends, opportunities and vulnerabilities to position to organization appropriately

• Pivots focus and prioritization of product and/or strategic focus based on changing business needs, market dynamics, and/or changes in product prioritization

• SalesForce Liaison

• Engage with field sales organization to ensure all meetings are executed in accordance with the company policy

• Develop a platform to provide sales leadership with regular updates on CLE engagement

• Provide salesforce with a quarterly update on activities

• Sales Training Support

• Manage practicing optometrist(s) involvement in sales force training, including but not limited to selection, communication, feedback.

• Global Support

• Work with leadership to support market analysis and development of business expansion strategy.

• Collaborate with regulatory team members on material and medical device submissions.

• Develop and support partnerships with international manufacturing and/or distribution sites including adapting established education programs and marketing resources.

• Support the establishment of clear expectations of international teams.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years in the eye care industry

• Highly motivated with demonstrated track record of high performance, project execution and producing outstanding results

• Ability to lead strategy development and subsequent tactical execution

• Significant, direct experience servicing customer needs demonstrated ability to work with multiple clients, stakeholders, and vendor/agency partners.

• Proven ability to facilitate open discussion and debate among key stakeholders and build internal and external relationships through partnering, anticipating needs, fulfilling expectations

• Clear networking and alliance building capabilities with an ability to influence and develop others, and navigate the internal processes

• Ability to work in cross-functional, team-based culture

• Ability to adapt to dynamic and fast paced business environment with multiple and changing priorities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Goal oriented, self-motivated, team player.

• Undergraduate degree required. Relevant experience preferred

• Other Job Requirements: Domestic Travel required, ability to travel overnight 40

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

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