Would you like to join Danone MENA and contribute to bringing health through food to as many people as possible? If YES, we are looking for a talented HealthCare Nutrition Field Manager to be based in Beirut, Lebanon, like you!

In the context of Specialized Nutrition Middle East, you will be responsible to grow the category and gain share and also to further accelerate our business locally through high performing sales teams.

This is done in line with corporate guidelines and strategies by planning and executing, sales plans, supervising sales teams and developing partnerships with HCPs & medical institutions as well as our distributors in the country. In summary, manage the day-to-day health care nutrition and sales operations and have overall business accountability.

The candidate will also carry the following responsibilities :

1. Leading the Sales teams:
• Continuously improve the day to day operations and personal development of Sales teams and ensure that their focus is in line with corporate strategies
• Monitor the samples usage.
• Set sales targets & follow up with distributor sales team.
• Leading and developing the sales teams in collaboration with HR business partner

2. Setting & Maintaining budgets
• Setting and monitoring of all budgets for the business especially related to medical support, samples.

3. Supporting campaigns & materials
• Follow-up with the relevant Marketing departments and implement supporting campaigns and materials in the market

4. Annual operations plan
• Working with the National Healthcare Nutrition Manager to set challenging budgets which are further broken down per area and per sales team member and to follow it with them.

5. Developing & maintaining the business relationship with distributors
• Maintain good relationship with distributors and communicate our business plans and objectives with them. Constant monitoring and follow up to ensure that logistics problems are timely resolved

6. Regulatory / government affairs
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with KOL's in MOH and other govt. authorities as well as private institutions to ensure that Nutricia's business interests are maintained and developed

7. Business Planning
• Assess and understand the HCPs, KOLs, channels & competition
• Drive and build long term plans and align & establish cross functional teams to reach the long-term targets set together with Head of UAE
• Plan, prioritize and execute all the agreed actions

To be successful in the role you should ideally have:

Bachelor and Experience:

• BSc. Science, Nutrition, Pharmacy or equivalent

• Experience: 3-5 years' in a similar role

• Experience within the Nutriton Field is a strong plus

• Exerience with Pediatrician is a strong plus

• Excellent Relationship with KOLs

• Willing to relocate to Beirut or suburbs.

Skills:
• Team Leader: inspires the team to reach a common goal
• Getting Things Done: delivers results and measures performance according to plan
• Decision Making: combines decisiveness with sound judgment
• Consumer Orientation: enabling the business to serve the consumer
• Team Player: connects effectively with others
• Coaching & Developing others: coaches to realize performance improvements and personal growth
• Transparency: acts in an open and respectful manner
• Initiative: proactively generates ideas to propel the business forward

Languages required:

English is a must, French is a plus

Danone Values:
Candidates are expected to adhere to Danone's core values: Humanism, Openness, Proximity & Enthusiasm.

Danone is a world-leading food company operating in three business divisions: Fresh Dairy Products, Specialized Nutrition, and Waters.
Danone’s mission is Bringing health through food to as many people as possible and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We recognize the power people have in impacting the world through their daily choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in. We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy planet and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

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Working in Danone Middle East is one of the best places to build a strong career through everyday learning, empowerment, and team collaboration in an open culture & environment. Our culture fosters autonomy and empowerment, where your everyday can be a fresh adventure - full of new possibilities and opportunities for your development.

Danone Middle East doesn’t just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where all hires to our team are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We recruit, employ, train, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, national origin, age, genetic characteristic, or any other protected status. Faithful to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect

So, if you are the HealthCare Nutrition Field Manager we are looking for, click on "apply" now before August 4th.

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