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At Danone we operate Smart Working, this means that our Danoners are entrusted to balance the needs of their role, business, and stakeholder needs with their own personal choices on where and how they best do their work. We value output and personal contribution, enabling ‘Danoners’ to be their most energised, healthy, and productive selves.

When team connection and collaboration is required, our hubs are located in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin.

Role Purpose

The Medical Affairs Manager sits within the Paediatric Medical Affairs team with responsibility for delivering the field based medical affairs plan across all paediatrics categories. The key objective of the Medical Science Liaison is to drive engagement with relevant science and evidence, establish Nutricia as a credible partner in paediatrics through strategic KOL and HCP engagement, and lead in external facing medical affairs activities, in line with category and business objectives.

Role Focus

• Contributes to strategy by analysing trends in clinical practice, evidence, science, publications and the external environment to inform tangible insights, as well as ensuring own continuous professional development
• Network and build relationships with key decision makers, KOLs, rising stars and influencers in paediatrics, in collaboration with internal stakeholders e.g. Medical Affairs, Solutions, Contracts and Healthcare Development teams.
• Build lasting relationships and partnerships with key healthcare professionals at a local, regional and national level.
• Devise and execute strategic KOL plans and utilise OCE to demonstrate performance against medical KPIs
• Contribute ideas and execute novel initiatives to leverage new and existing evidence and relevant opportunities to support paediatrics and business objectives
• Present accurate, clear and detailed scientific and clinical content for relevant stakeholders, both internal and external
• Contribute to proactive internal and external communication of scientific evidence, use of products and services with appropriate HCPs, professional organisations, charities or groups
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to educate, build links, increase awareness, improve credibility and support product use.
• Design and execute MSL educational strategy working with external stakeholders to support high quality education aligned to category objectives.
• Proactively generate insights from activity in the field, and providing recommendations to inform category commercial and medical strategy.
• Collaborate with other teams to suggest tools, activities, evidence generation needs and materials to support delivery of category strategy

As a successful Medical Affairs Manager, we would love to see you demonstrate -

• High level of scientific and research expertise. Extensive experience in nutrition or dietetics, with knowledge of paediatric nutrition and practical understanding of clinical dietetics.
• Ability to understand and critically appraise scientific data, interpret and translate complex information to meet the needs of different audiences in a clear and impactful way.
• Understanding of the NHS healthcare and economic context and relevant stakeholders involved in paediatric patient journeys.
• Self-motivated and dynamic, able to navigate complexity and identify new opportunities and generate ideas
• Evidence of strong external networking and stakeholder management skills. Confident to question and challenge, to uncover customer needs and identify solutions.
• Ability to balance medical and commercial agenda. Ability to understand commercial KPIs and data. Able to engage and build new relationships internally to deliver medical plans and provide value across category teams.
• Willingness to travel nationally

Danone are a world leader across 3 categories: Essential Dairy & Plant Based, Natural Sourced Waters and Specialised Nutrition, many of our consumer brands are household names, ranging from heritage brands like Cow & Gate and Harrogate Waters to international favourites like Actimel, Alpro and evian. In the UK & Ireland and in every market in which we operate, we are committed to delivering health through food and drink to as many people as possible.

We operate at 5 production sites as well as our 3 HUBS in Chiswick, Trowbridge and Dublin - led by our people who power everything we do and are key to our success. We are a team of 2000+ Danoners, part of a 100,000 strong global family.

‘A force for good’, we are the first top 10 branded food and healthcare manufacturer in the UK & Ireland to certify as a B Corp. We are part of a growing global community set up to balance purpose and profit, helping to create a better world while thriving as businesses.

As a global company, Danone serves a huge array of different communities, with different cultures, local tastes and habits. Our teams need to represent the diversity of these millions of people and we therefore encourage applications from all backgrounds and aim to create a workplace where our Danoners can be their true authentic selves.

What we offer?
Our mission and values guide how we behave, our flexible ways of working, how we connect with our communities and how we grow & develop our people. We offer a competitive package including a double matched pension, annual bonus, private healthcare, life assurance, flexible benefits and product vouchers.

What’s next?

If you are interested in applying for the role then please don’t hesitate to proceed with an application. If we would like to get to know more about you and your application then we will be in touch shortly.