Regional Medical Science Liaison - South West

EssilorLuxottica; Thornbury; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

EssilorLuxottica in Thornbury, UK, is seeking a Regional Medical Science Liaison for the South West region. The role focuses on promoting Stellest and Varilux, delivering clinical education, and supporting ophthalmic professionals through field visits and CPD activities.

You will collaborate with product managers and commercial teams to build a medical footprint across the UKI, ensuring scientific excellence and robust stakeholder engagement in a dynamic market.

Qualifications

• Optometrist or Dispensing Optician with strong scientific/clinical and medical affairs knowledge
• Several years of sales experience in practice or industry
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Leadership and active listening with ability to influence stakeholders
• Market knowledge of UK and Irish markets, including regulatory context
• Deep knowledge of Stellest and Varilux products
• Business acumen and competitor awareness
• Customer-focused, able to translate feedback into actions
• Drive for results with autonomy

Responsibilities

• Promote lens and instrument solutions to ophthalmic professionals
• Deliver medical and technical education, including CPD content
• Lead field-based activities: visits, education at practices, universities, congresses
• Collaborate with Product Managers and commercial teams to establish medical footprint in UKI
• Speaker at local events and support regional sales growth

Skills

Sales experience

Communication skills

Leadership

Autonomy

Market awareness

Technical knowledge

Customer focus

Interpersonal savvy

Drive for results

Education

Optometrist or Dispensing Optician

Job description

Regional Medical Science Liaison - South West

Brand: EssilorLuxottica

Location: Thornbury, England, United Kin, GB

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.

Your #FutureInSight with EssilorLuxottica

Are you willing to pioneer new frontiers, foster inclusivity and collaboration, embrace agility, ignite passion, and make a positive impact on the world? Join us in redefining the boundaries of what’s possible.

Your role

As Regional Medical Science Liaison, you will be EssilorLuxottica’s medical representative towards optometrists, ophthalmologist paediatrics specialists (Ireland only), myopia care private clinics and targeted dispensing opticians and universities in the South West region - Postcodes covered BA, EX, GY, JE, PL, TA, TQ, TR, BH, DT, PO, SO, SP, GU, RG, SL, BS, CF, HR, LD, NP, SA, WR, KT, TW, UB, B, DY, WS.

Main Responsibilities

• To promote Lens and Instruments towards those specific targets.
• You will bring them a wealth of knowledge and EssilorLuxottica solutions to support appropriate use of lenses and instruments for better patient outcomes. This will include the transformation into the med‑tech space with AI developments and wearables.
• This promotion will be done through field visits, technical education in practices, medical congress symposiums and training in universities.
• Your mission will also involve medical and technical education with dispensing opticians, optometrists and ophthalmologists
• Your core category focus will be:
  • Stellest® and Myopia Control category development
  • Varilux® and presbyopia category development

Activities

You will also be involved in the following activities:

• You will work closely with the local Product Managers, regional Medical Education teams and Commercial Teams to establish a medical footprint for EssilorLuxottica in the UKI region. You will be a keynote speaker in local events linked to visual health.
• You will support volume growth in your region for Stellest® and Varilux® in coordination with the local sales leader.
• You will establish accounts targeting, field visits and planning in collaboration with the Commercial Directors and Regional leaders. You will visit independent practices and key accounts following quarterly priorities.
• You are expected to be 80% in the field, e.g., myopia clinics and customer visits, secure technical education for Stellest® and Varilux®
• You will create CPD content and support the delivery of Virtual Classrooms on the Leonardo education platform.

Main Requirements

• Be educated as an Optometrist or Dispensing Optician with Strong scientific/clinical and medical affairs knowledge, particularly in myopia management
• Several years sales experience in practice or in the industry
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills;
• Leaderships skills: Active Listening and ability to convince key stakeholders
• Driven for results and autonomous
• Market awareness: Having a working knowledge of the UK and Irish markets, including regulations and medical affairs
• Demonstrating outstanding technical knowledge: Understanding and demonstrating the superiority of EssilorLuxottica products and key categories, particularly Stellest® and Varilux®
• Business Acumen: Understanding and using information, knowing competitors and market landscape.
• Customer Focus: Knowing and collaborating with customers, collecting and acting on customer feedback and their needs, proposing improvements
• Drive for Results: Committing and completing objectives, delivering work results, aligning, resourcing, changing when needed, applying best practices and giving recognition for results
• Interpersonal Savvy: Building networks and relationships, communicating, influencing, seeking win‑win solutions to problems

Our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion commitment

We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We celebrate diversity and provide equal opportunities to all, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that makes us unique.

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