Brand Manager (Medtech/Instruments/Stellest) CEE/Greece

Contract: permanent

If you’ve worn a pair of glasses, we’ve already met.

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. We offer our industry stakeholders in over 150 countries access to a global platform of high-quality vision care products (such as the Essilor brand, with Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest and Transitions), iconic brands that consumers love (such as Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, Oliver Peoples, Vogue Eyewear and Costa), as well as a network that offers consumers high-quality vision care and best-in-class shopping experiences (such as Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Salmoiraghi & Viganò and the GrandVision network), and leading e-commerce platforms.

Join our global community of over 190,000 dedicated employees around the world in driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

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Your role: 

The CEE Wholesale Marketing team is looking for an experienced and talented Marketing Leader to take responsibility to develop Medtech/instruments/Stellest, key strategic categories in the CEE region, long term game changer for the company. Reporting to Head of Eyecare x lenses, in a matrix organization, he/she will be collaborating strongly with EMEA and mentoring the countries.

Your responsibilities:

• Implements long term strategy, master plans, and global strategy of this fast pace and highly strategic categories in CEE/Greece.
• Ensures execution of Central guidelines and defines regional & local guidelines. Roadmap providing clear guidelines to the markets on local execution and 360°deployment (Growth Model, Best Practices...). B2B2C approach.
• Ensures that the country teams have the right plans and actions to reach budget (volume and value) for the dedicated categories by mentoring and supporting them.
• Launches all new products on time and on budget by providing coordination with the different customer service / training / commercial / IT teams for product setups
• Coordination of campaign assets and demo tools provided by Central and shares it with the countries, and works with countries to properly activate them in the field
• Communicate the CEE vision at key stakeholders. Keeps tracking & provides follow-up of the implementation of campaigns, assets, demo tools with photos and lists of partners
• Represents the CEE/Greece region and provides the Central and local teams with necessary reporting & consolidated information
• Supports the Budget preparation (volumes and values) by working with the clusters and Business Category Planning
• Implements after-sales support provided by Central (on time, localized content).
• Develop the prescriber/KOL touchpoints and support the countries to organize the most relevant events.

Your profile: 

• 5/7+ experience as a Product Manager or Brand management. Ideally local and regional experiences. Medical background is a +.
• Min. Bachelor’s degree in management or equivalent area of study
• Marketing and go to market expertise
• Ability to work on a highly strategic products and categories, game changer for the company.
• Strategic thinking with ability to be also hands-on when necessary
• Ability to work under pressure
• Problem-solving skills, conflict-resolution skills
• Organizational skills, autonomy & dynamism to drive projects forward with flawless attention to detail
• Analytical- and conceptual skills
• English is a Must (professional proficiency required), Czech is preferable

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