Education Field Manager Benelux

Education Field Manager Benelux

Active Cosmetics Division

In short

The Education Field Manager Benelux will lead and enable the education field team (10 trainers). Your guidance allows them to further develop the sell-out of our Active Cosmetics Division (ACD) brands, in top pharmacies across the Benelux. Our ideal candidate has at least 6 years of experience in dermocosmetics, is based in Belgium and fully trilingual (English, French and Dutch). You will report into the Business Development Director.

Objective of the role:

As Education Field Manager you are responsible to drive the sell-out of the brands Vichy, La Roche-Posay and Cerave in top pharmacies by ensuring that the training managers have the best technical mastery of our brands and the dermocosmetics category.

Responsibilities:

• Develop the right ACD training strategy that is in line with the marketing plan.
• Coaching the education field team in the Benelux (10 trainers).
• Animate the education team to think and act 360 degrees: by fostering a strong cooperation with the sales representatives and the medical vistors, developing a business vision, tracking the turnover of their clients and challenge them on how to cope with new business challenges of the distribution.
• Develop scientific training tools that are used by the training managers in pharmacies to train the pharmacists and the pharmacy assistants.
• Development and coordination of all the tools that the training managers have to boost the sell-out of their clients: samples, mini products, POS materials and incentives.
• Collect qualitative feedback from the field (including competition) to optimize our training strategy.
• Define and follow-up on the sell-out KPI’s of the training managers.
• Help the training managers to organize tailormade client events for our brands and track the ROI of these events.
• Work on a B2B communication strategy and support individual pharmacies.
• Upskill the knowledge of the team on various topics: Business, Digital and on the dermocosmetics category by organizing trainings for the team.
• Responsible for the knowledge level of the internal colleagues via internal trainings.
• Monitor the training budget.

You will work with:

We are looking for a true people manager with strong interpersonal, communicative skills. To be able to succeed in this role, you successfully work together with:

• Training managers, who you manage and who give training in the pharmacies.
• Pharmacies for which you will develop the right service.
• Marketing teams Vichy, La Roche-Posay and Cerave, to make sure that the training managers focus on the right priorities of the brands within the in-pharmacy and to make sure that you develop the training tools that are in line with the vision of the brands.
• International training team, with whom you exchange on best practices.
• Sales field managers, to foster a strong cooperation between the sales representatives and the training managers.
• Medical visit managers, to foster a strong cooperation between the medical visitors and the training managers.
• The Education innovation manager, to ensure the right translation of the offline learning strategy to the online learning strategies for the pharmacies and to work on the right O&O learning strategy for the division.
• Category Manager, to reinforce the B2B and B2C knowledge within the dermocosmetics category.
• Business Development Director, to which you report.

Your profile

To maintain our top position in the market, we need ambitious people, with strong convictions and believes. People who are courageous, take risks and challenge the status quo. We look for future leaders who are willing to go the extra mile and want to make a difference. We need talent.

At L’Oréal you’ll be working with driven and passionate colleagues, and management that will stimulate you to excel. L’Oréal offers an international and diverse work environment where fun, next to serious work, is fundamental for our teams. L’Oréal takes its responsibility as corporate citizen, where you as an employee can play an active role yourself.

Our ideal candidate:

• Knows the dermocosmetics environment and has a medical or scientific background
• Is fluent in English, French and Dutch in speaking and writing. (this is a must-have!)
• Has at least 6 years relevant working experience
• Embodies the brand identities of Vichy, La Roche Posay and Cerave
• Has experience in team management: people developer and strong communication skills
• Elevates customer experience and has a service attitude
• Is customer centric and entrepreneurial
• Knows how to strategize and influence

Personality traits that help you to be successful:

• Analytical at the heart, but pragmatic when the situation requires.
• Entrepreneurial, initiative taker and eager to make a difference
• Result oriented and able to convince others
• An open mind for new initiatives and ways-of-working

We offer:

L’Oréal offers an attractive role in a dynamic work environment, a compatible salary with excellent secondary conditions (e.g. 13th month, profit sharing) and opportunities for further career development.

Diversity

At L’Oréal we aim to hire a diverse workforce:

“A diversified workforce in every function and on all levels strengthens our creativity and our understanding of consumers and it enables us to develop and market products that are relevant“

(Jean-Paul Agon, Chairman of L’Oréal)

Apply now!

Are you ready for this challenge and do you meet the conditions?

Then apply quickly!