Scientific Communications Senior Manager, Forestry

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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:

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 P&G brands, for Family Care. This role is located in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Job Description
As a Scientific Communications Senior Manager, you will be developing the scientific strategy and content to support the success of Bounty, Charmin, and Puffs. This can 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.
·  Developing Scientific Communications strategies and plans to generate earned awareness and advocacy.
·  Leading the development of scientific stories, publications, demos and message tracks, leading key science stakeholder relationships, and serving as a spokesperson with media and customers.
·  Working with agencies to inspire and lead the development of compelling Scientific Communication materials.
·  Leading external stakeholder relationships to counsel our programs internally and help us accelerate our external thought leadership.
·  Developing crisis prevention plans, 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.
·  Continuing to grow skills day-in, day-out, by connecting with internal and external scientific and key opinion leaders.

Lead Family Care's Forestry Efforts:

·  Forestry Scientific Communications strategy and plan focused on our sourcing policies, plans, and Ambition 2030 goals.
·  Help strengthen forestry certification standards.
·  Be a key leader in projects to promote healthy forests and certification.
·  Own FSC Trademark Use & Management System and Rainforest Alliance seal use.
·  Lead P&G’s input and gather information required for our forestry reporting efforts.
·  Provide expert guidance on alternative/non-wood fibers
·  Provide training and expertise on forestry within P&G.

Lead Family Care’s sustainability & product stewardship credentialing:

·  Lead LCA efforts and input to action plans for positive impacts.

Share our Brand science and technology story externally:

·  Partner with Brands and R&D to develop engaging ways to communicate our product initiatives and current technology
Qualifications

Required:

·  Bachelor’s degree. Highly preferred is degree in Forestry. Would also accept Environmental Science, Paper Science, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biology.
·  Forestry experience whether as a forester or working in the industries of paper or toilet tissue.
·  2-3 years of experience in a scientific communications role (corporate company, university, etc).
·  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:

·  Masters or PhD post gradual doctoral degree in science or communications disciplines.
·  Experience working with consumer brands in a professional capacity (branding, marketing, scientific, etc).

Skills Needed for the Job:

Technical/scientific background, Technical curiosity, Excellent verbal and written communication skills, Objection handling skills, Creativity, Strong people skills, Agility, Experience working with multi-functional teams

The Value of a P&G Career

·  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, remote working options, 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.

Job locations:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Job Type: Full-time Job categories: Communications Req No: COM00000438