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What you will do

The Vice President, Health Care Professional (HCP) - U.S. will lead the enterprise HCP marketing and sales agenda across the U.S. portfolio. This leader will set the vision, strategy, operating model and investment priorities that position HCP engagement as a critical growth driver, while strengthening sales force effectiveness, omnichannel activation and accountability for business results.

Serving as the senior HCP leader for the U.S., this role will operate independently with senior business leaders, represent the function with North America leadership. The mandate spans a diverse portfolio and practitioner ecosystem, with responsibility for building a connected model across HCP sales, marketing, professional affairs & operations and emerging professional channels.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the U.S. HCP vision, strategy, operating model and multi-year roadmap across the portfolio, establishing clear priorities, resource allocation and investment recommendations.
• Position HCP engagement as a critical business growth lever by increasing healthcare professional recommendation, advocacy, reach, engagement and influence across priority brands and categories.
• Lead an enterprise HCP organization with accountability for both professional sales activation and HCP marketing/content capabilities, creating clear ownership, disciplined execution and strong cross-functional integration.
• Own the strategy and performance management of sizable internal and external HCP-facing sales organizations, including sales force effectiveness, deployment, reach, frequency, execution standards and accountability for results.
• Provide strategic oversight of external sales partnerships, ensuring Kenvue maintains the capabilities, governance and performance discipline required to direct execution effectively.
• Serve as a key member of the US Self Care Leadership Team and represent HCP priorities with North America leadership, Accountable Business Units and other senior stakeholders.

• Partner with Global HCP & Brand leadership and US marketing teams to co-create content, capabilities and toolkits, and translate them into differentiated U.S. activation strategies, while sharing scalable U.S. innovations and learnings across markets.

• Build and scale HCP capabilities across multiple brands, categories, medical specialties and professional channels, avoiding single-brand or single-category solutions where enterprise approaches can create greater impact.
• Cultivate strategic relationships with healthcare professionals, Key Opinion Leaders, institutions and professional associations to strengthen credibility, influence and advocacy.
• Lead sales force activation and Quarterly Business Review deliverables, connecting strategic priorities with execution quality, field performance and measurable business outcomes.
• Lead U.S. conference and congress activation across key brands and channels, using priority events to strengthen professional engagement, deepen strategic relationships and accelerate business impact.
• Drive integrated, omnichannel HCP engagement models across field, digital, content, professional education and customer touchpoints, supported by data-driven decision making and continuous optimization.
• Develop and scale engagement strategies across institutional and emerging professional ecosystems, including pediatrics, dental service organizations, hospital sales/procurement and other evolving healthcare delivery models.
• Identify opportunities to leverage channel activation across brands and categories to improve efficiency, consistency and impact while recognizing the distinct needs of professional audiences and channels.
• Establish governance, planning processes, KPI frameworks and performance management routines across the HCP organization, linking HCP investment to recommendation, growth and return on investment.
• Attract, develop and upskill a high-performing organization, building best-in-class HCP commercial, sales and marketing capabilities and a strong succession pipeline.

What we are looking for

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Significant senior commercial leadership experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, consumer health, medical products or a comparably complex HCP-focused environment.
• Demonstrated experience directly leading sizable HCP-facing sales organizations, with accountability for sales force strategy, effectiveness, reach, frequency, execution and performance.
• Portfolio-level leadership across multiple brands, categories, conditions, indications, medical specialties or professional audiences
• Proven ability to set a long-term enterprise vision and translate strategy into operating models, investment choices, execution plans and measurable business outcomes.
• Deep understanding of healthcare ecosystems and the respective roles of healthcare professionals, institutions, professional associations, Key Opinion Leaders and commercial partners.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to connect HCP investments to recommendation, advocacy, growth and return on investment.
• Experience leading complex, matrixed organizations and influencing across senior business, sales, marketing, medical, digital, insights, customer and global stakeholders.
• Experience integrating HCP sales and marketing capabilities across a broad consumer health, self-care or healthcare portfolio.
• Experience overseeing large external or contracted field sales organizations and establishing effective governance with strategic partners.
• Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to represent the HCP function independently with senior internal leaders and external professional stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree such as an MBA, or another relevant graduate qualification.
• Strong HCP marketing experience, including professional engagement strategy, brand strategy, content, omnichannel activation and custome Advanced degree such as an MBA, or another relevant graduate qualification.
• Experience with institutional channels, hospital sales/procurement, dental service organizations, professional education, congress activation or emerging healthcare delivery models.
• Experience partnering with global teams while maintaining clear accountability for a U.S.-focused mandate.

What’s in it for you

This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate’s skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on merit without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.