Global Home Care Scientific Communications Senior Manager

Job description

Description

P&G is the largest consumer packaged goods company in the world. We have operations in over 75 countries, with 65 trusted brands that improve lives for 5 billion consumers worldwide. This brings many advantages, including the opportunity for our employees to enjoy a diverse and rewarding lifelong career filled with new and exciting challenges.

We believe great ideas emerge from the creative connections that happen between our talented employees, and we encourage diverse, multi-functional teams to work together to generate new ideas to address challenges we face.

The Opportunity

Global Home Care Scientific Communications is a unique type of role that allows an individual to combine scientific and technical expertise with strategic and creative thinking, communication skills and commercial understanding. It also requires the ability to collaborate effectively inside and outside the company.

We are looking for an individual that can transform deep science into compelling and appealing messages that everyone can understand. You will work in close partnership with R&D, Brand Management, Global Product Safety and external scientific experts to develop and execute scientific credentialing/advocacy strategies and create compelling scientific product stories/content for Home Care brands, for cleaning and hygiene.

This role is located in Cincinnati, Ohio as you will be executing the design for North America. In addition, you will lead the Scientific Communications design globally for the Home Care brands. You will also ensure that Scientific Communications for Home Care is an integrated part of the overall product concept and creation and commercialization process.

Job Description

As the Global Home Care Scientific Communications Senior Manager, you will be developing the scientific strategy and content to support the success of Global Home Care and NA brands (Fairy/Dawn, Cascade, Microban, Swiffer, Mr. Clean, Febreze). This will include:
•Leading the creation of integrated Scientific Communications strategies and plans that generate earned awareness and advocacy with customers and other external bodies like universities, key opinion leaders and influencers.
•Leading external stakeholder relationships to counsel our programs internally and help us accelerate our external thought leadership.
•Developing crisis prevention plans for the full line up, covering escalation models and mitigation plans.
•Supporting the upstream innovation: Creation of excellent technical product stories with scientific insights, superior claims and visualization of benefits and science.
•Working with agencies to inspire and lead the development of compelling Scientific Communication materials.
•You will be growing your skills day-in, day-out, by connecting with internal and external scientific and key opinion leaders.

We are looking for a passionate and driven individual who:

Is able to build effective working relationships: you will need to be able to work effectively with a broad range of people within P&G, our agency partners and external influencers. This will be key in helping to develop effective credentialing partnerships and establishing the individual as a key ‘go-to’ contact for thought-leading influencers. It is a very dynamic role which offers the potential for growth and development within the role and longer term within the global Scientific Communications organization.

Has a strong Technical Mastery: this is essential as you will need to become fluent in the technology behind our Home Care cleaning brands and initiatives, as well as hygiene regulated and non-regulated territories. This technical understanding will be critical as you work to create Scientific Communications strategies integrated with the business, materials and communicates the science to influencers, and other external bodies.

Can communicate effectively: you will need to create clear, concise and well-organized communication materials and messages (written, oral, visual). Ability to present information both clearly and convincingly to external influencers (e.g. science and news media, as well as medical, academic and professional experts).

Is Creative: you will need to be able to think creatively to develop compelling stories as well as identifying new opportunities for Scientific Communications to drive earned awareness, credibility and build the business.

Is externally in touch: Demonstrate an interest in and have an eye for the external landscape for cleaning products. This includes understanding key trends (Perceived Safety Issues, Sustainability, Hygiene, Citizenship, etc.).

Qualifications

Required:

·  Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology or similar field.
·  2-3 years of experience in a communications role (university, company, etc).
·  Ability to travel up to 30 % (combination of domestic/international, once restrictions are lifted).
·  A high level of proficiency in the English language is essential and the candidate must have global skills to be able to communicate across cultures.

Preferred:

·  PhD post gradual doctoral degree in science or communications disciplines.
·  Experience working with hygiene and/or cleaning products/brands in a professional capacity (branding, marketing, scientific, etc).

The Value of a P&G Career
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·  Ongoing coaching and career development – you will work with passionate people and have access to best in class training through our P&G Leadership Academy as well as day-to-day mentoring from your manager.
·  We provide a market-competitive salary benchmarked against the finest companies, so you'll be able to spend your generous vacation time doing more of the things you love with the people you love.

·  We offer a suite of benefits, including but not limited to: flexible working arrangements, generous paid vacation increasing with service, generous parental leave policies, group life insurance, health insurance, and dedicated support to help you find the right child care or elder care.

·  Additional perks include discounted P&G products from our company shops and a discount platform offering you unbeatable savings on everything from groceries to exotic holidays.

·  What's more, your financial package might include things like interest-free loans, a tax-advantageous share purchase plan, a contributory pension plan, and financial education and advisement on topics including purchasing real estate and generating wealth.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, citizenship, HIV/AIDS status or any other legally protected factor.

Immigration sponsorship is not available for this role. As a general matter, Procter & Gamble does not sponsor candidates for nonimmigrant visas or permanent residency. However, Procter & Gamble may make exceptions on a discretionary basis. Any exceptions would be based on the Company's specific business needs at the time and place of recruitment as well as the particular qualifications of the individual.

Procter & Gamble participates in e-verify as required by law.

Qualified individuals will not be disadvantaged based on being unemployed.

MQualificlearly detailed in job description are assessed in the pre-screen questionnaire

Job locations:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Job Type: Full-time Job categories: Communications Req No: COM00000425