Healthcare Nutrition Strategy Manager

Short Intro and About the Job

Danone Specialized Nutrition Malaysia is seeking a Healthcare Nutrition Strategy Manager. With our global presence, brands, and mission of bringing health through food to as many people as possible, we believe that personal growth is a key asset to achieving sustainable business performance. To succeed in this journey, we're looking for the right talent and personalities eager to bring their energy and ideas to a meaningful project. Take this opportunity to GROW together and experience a culture that empowers you to express your ideas and share what you're passionate about!

The Healthcare Nutrition Strategy Manager is responsible for planning strategy for all key target audiences, customizing strategy for each channel, evaluating the sufficiency of budgeting to balance required output KPIs, and ensuring plan/activation execution on time and in full. This role is accountable for the HCP Brand of First Choice (BOFC) related plan, working closely with Consumer Marketing, Science Team, Regulation, Healthcare Nutrition Solution Team, and Supply Chain.

Over the years, as competition intensified and with more stringent regulations, this role has evolved. It now involves much wider and deeper responsibilities to drive business growth. This role is also required to manage more than one brand due to the emergence of the HN SKUs.

1. Managing hospital/relevant government department enquiries and complaints.
2. Direct negotiation with hospitals' persons in charge (i.e., marketing and operations) on product presence and quality.
3. Penetration, activation, and listing of products into new channels (i.e., IVJ centres, confinement, wellness, etc.).
4. Direct management of objections from key hospitals/channel persons in charge.
5. Managing sales numbers (for Adult Nutrition Business).
6. Managing key accounts (for Adult Nutrition Business) where Joint Business Planning (JBP with hospital or sales channel) is required.
7. To drive end-to-end plans inclusive of innovation/renovation for Healthcare Nutrition SKUs such as Neocate, Preterm, Infatrini, DuSoy, Ketocal, Souvenaid, Fortisip, etc.

About You

• Possesses a recognized degree, preferably in Science, Pharmacy, Nutrition, or Dietetics.
• Have at least 5 years of marketing/brand management experience in an FMCG or pharmaceutical environment.
• Experience in preparing and executing healthcare marketing brands is an added advantage.
• Sales and marketing experience in FMCG is an added advantage.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management and communication ability.
• Good analytical ability.
• Leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Commercial mindset.
• Excellent execution capability - planning and organizing, coordination, delegation, control, integrity, decisiveness.
• Background in the infant nutrition category is an added advantage but not mandatory.

About Us, We Offer and What's Next

Danone is a world-leading food company built on three business lines: Specialized Nutrition, Waters, and Fresh Dairy Products. 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 to impact 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, which is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

Danone is committed to creating and living in an inclusive & diverse environment, which will drive our growth as a business, as teams, as members of communities, and as individuals. Valuing diversity means recognizing and respecting human differences and similarities. Our aim is to ensure that all employees and applicants are given equal opportunity and that our organization is representative of our consumers and society.

We commit to fostering an inclusive working environment where we celebrate all types of diversity, both visible and invisible, which includes age, race, gender, nationality, disability, background, education, religion, beliefs, thinking style, perspectives, and sexual orientation.

We believe that our differences will make the difference.

For more information, please visit our website at Danone Careers.

What's next? Willing to start your meaningful journey? Hit the APPLY button! Or you can contact us:
Pimparin Limpachote (Pim)
SEA Talent Acquisition Manager, DANONE SEA - HR Central Pool
Email: Pimparin.Limpachote@danone.com #LI-ML