Sr. Manager, Consumer Science
(Internal title is Consumer Science Americas Lead)
Location: Bridgewater, NJ
Remote Work: Hybrid
Travel Expected: 15% - 20%
Job Type: Full time
About the Job
At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one shared mission - we work passionately, every day, to 'serve healthier, fuller lives' now and for the generations to come.
In order to do so, we strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees' mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view.
Everything we do is centered around people's interests - our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees - across the world.
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We are building loved brands that serve 1bn consumers worldwide, through our key platforms: Allergy, Physical & Mental Wellness, Pain, Digestive Wellness and Cough, Cold & Flu.
We aspire to become the best Fast Moving Consumer Health (FMCH) company In & For the world and we aim to build a work environment where people can thrive, grow, enjoy and be at their best.
Our Team
Come help us explore the world of selfcare through the consumers eyes. You will inspire our developers, packaging team and designers to re-evaluate assumptions of our diverse portfolios and pipelines through new lenses. You will be responsible for leading Consumer/ Product research activities in the Americas to discover what consumers want and what motivates them about several diverse topics within selfcare and will work closely with R&D, Marketing, Market Research.
Main Responsibilities
- Lead, develop and recommend state of the art consumer/ product research that help inspire product development, packaging and design teams.
- Lead the technical evaluation of selected priority products versus competition, including and contribute to the selection and development of products and translate differences into various consumer facing communications/ visualizations, etc.
- Identify and lead best research methodology to inform key development and business decisions.
- Help multifunctional teams clarify business objectives to ensure we are getting the most out of the proposed research but more importantly, answering the best questions for our categories.
- Update, maintain, and add new external vendors to help support growth & vision within the territories.
About You
- BSE, MS, or PhD or relevant Academic qualification.
- Proven leadership expertise in leading cross functional teams.
- Proven track record of leading research for the development of market validated, consumer loved products.
- 10+ years Products Research experience ideally with a leading FMCG, Healthcare company or partner agency that works closely with FMCG companies to deliver their Product Research goals.
Benefits of Working in this Role
- Lead multifunctional teams in challenging and helping to refine product/ platform objectives
- Build strong relationships with a collaborative, creative, passionate, smart team to challenge the status quo
- Dig deep and further develop your leadership and creative abilities to drive change in an organization that is thirsty to become the top of all our categories while maintaining our core values of courage, teamwork, respect and integrity.
Pursue Progress, Discover Extraordinary
Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn't happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let's be those people.
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