Bilingual Oral Care Sales Field Consultant - Ottawa

Welcome to Haleon. We’re a purpose-driven, world-class consumer company putting everyday health in the hands of millions. In just three years since our launch, we’ve grown, evolved and are now entering an exciting new chapter – one filled with bold ambitions and enormous opportunity.

Our trusted portfolio of brands – including Sensodyne®, Panadol®, Advil®, Voltaren®, Theraflu®, Otrivin®, and Centrum® – lead in resilient and growing categories. What sets us apart is our unique blend of deep human understanding and trusted science.

Now it’s time to fully realise the full potential of our business and our people. We do this through our Win as One strategy. It puts our purpose – to deliver better everyday health with humanity – at the heart of everything we do. It unites us, inspires us, and challenges us to be better every day, driven by our agile, performance-focused culture.

This Job Posting is for an existing vacancy. 

Work Authorization: Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada at the time of application and throughout employment. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role. 

Please note: Visa sponsorship or relocation will not be offered for this position. 

Salary Range: The base salary compensation range for this position is $75,000 to $105,000. 

Location: This is a field-based, home-based role. Candidates who reside within the Ottawa territory are strongly preferred, given the nature of the client base, the amount of in-territory travel, and the need for local market insight. 

Job Purpose: 

Reporting to the Regional Sales Manager, the Bilingual Oral Care Field Consultant will be Haleon's primary partner to dental professionals across the Greater Ottawa territory, including Gatineau and Kingston, with some account coverage in Halifax. You will own and execute a territory business plan, build trusted relationships with dentists, dental hygienists and other members of the dental team, identify opportunities for growth, and deliver engaging, patient-focused sales and educational presentations. 

Success in this role requires a strong understanding of Haleon's Oral Care portfolio and the competitive landscape, together with the ability to uncover customer needs, translate science into relevant conversations, influence behaviour change, and turn customer insights into action. 

Why Join Haleon? 

• Competitive compensation and annual bonus package. 

• Comprehensive and flexible benefits program from day 1. 

• Defined contribution pension plan with employer matching. 

• Optional Haleon Savings Plan with employer matching. 

• 26 weeks of fully paid leave for all new parents at Haleon, regardless of gender or sexuality. 

• Inclusive, diverse, and collaborative culture. 

• Commitment to development and career progression. 

• Field-based flexibility and a company-leased vehicle, subject to eligibility under Haleon's safe driver program. 

Key Responsibilities: 

This role will provide you with the opportunity to own a high-impact territory and develop your sales career. Key responsibilities include: 

• Develop and execute territory business plans, account priorities and customer call plans to grow the area business. 

• Set short- and long-term objectives and use territory insights, customer feedback and available data to prioritize activity and adapt plans. 

• Proactively identify, prioritize and develop new dental practices and customer opportunities through local market research, networking, referrals and strategic partnerships. 

• Build trusted relationships with dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants and other members of the dental practice team. 

• Use a consultative, patient-focused selling approach to uncover needs, ask effective questions, communicate relevant clinical evidence, handle objections and gain appropriate customer commitment. 

• Deliver engaging one-to-one and group presentations, lunch-and-learns, in-services and educational discussions tailored to dental professionals. 

• Maintain strong knowledge of Haleon products, strategies and positioning, as well as relevant competitor products and the broader Oral Care landscape. 

• Collaborate proactively with colleagues across Sales, Expert Marketing, Medical and other functions to successfully execute territory plans. 

• Manage budget and resources effectively, maintain accurate customer activity records, and report adverse events in accordance with Haleon policy. 

What Success Looks Like: 

• Building trusted relationships while identifying and converting new customer and practice opportunities. 

• Delivering high-quality educational and sales conversations that are relevant to customer and patient needs and lead to appropriate commitment. 

• Increasing engagement with Haleon Oral Health Professional programs, resources and priority brands. 

• Consistently delivering against agreed territory objectives, activity expectations and KPIs. 

Basic Qualifications: 

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals: 

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree - Science or Business preferred - or qualification as a Licensed Dental Professional. 

• Full professional fluency in French and English, written and spoken, is required. 

• Previous field sales experience is an asset (typically 1-3 years), or direct experience within the Oral Care or dental industry. 

• Valid driver's license and ability to meet Haleon's safe driver requirements. 

• Ability to work independently, manage a geographic territory and prioritize competing demands. 

• Strong verbal, written, listening and presentation skills, with clear and structured communication. 

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with agility to learn CRM and other digital tools. 

• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the territory, including regular driving and overnight and/or air travel as required, up to 10%. 

*This position requires the employee to drive routinely on Company business and allows for the provision of a company-leased vehicle. To be eligible for the position and a company vehicle, Haleon will need to obtain acceptable results from a license verification inquiry and driver's abstract review against its safe driver program requirements. 

Preferred Qualifications: 

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus: 

• Residence within the Ottawa territory, given the nature of the client base, in-territory travel and the value of local market insight. 

• Previous experience in oral health, dental sales or working within a dental practice. 

• Knowledge of the Ottawa/Gatineau dental community and/or established relationships within the local market. 

• High sense of initiative with a passionate, entrepreneurial spirit and comfort prospecting for new business. 

• Strong listening, questioning and influencing skills to strategically engage health care professionals and internal partners. 

• High learning agility, curiosity and strong business acumen. 

• Ability to lead engaging presentations and educational sessions with both individuals and larger groups. 

• Ability to understand clinical and scientific evidence and translate it into clear, relevant customer conversations. 

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At Haleon, we are committed to a fair, transparent, and human-centered hiring process. 
 

We do not make automated hiring decisions or automated candidate dispositions within our Talent Acquisition systems. All decisions regarding whether to advance a candidate in the hiring process are made by human recruiters and hiring managers. 
 

While we utilize AI tools to assist in ranking candidate profiles based on their experience and alignment with job requisitions, these tools are used solely to support our teams in reviewing applications more efficiently. A human always reviews this data and makes the final decision on candidate progression. 

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Equal Opportunities

Haleon are committed to mobilising our purpose in a way that represents the diverse consumers and communities who rely on our brands every day. It guides us in creating an inclusive culture, where different backgrounds and views are valued and respected – all in support of understanding and best serving the needs of our consumers and unleashing the full potential of our people. It’s important to us that Haleon is a place where all our employees feel they truly belong.

During the application process, we may ask you to share some personal information, which is entirely voluntary. This information ensures we meet certain regulatory and reporting obligations and supports the development, refinement, and execution of our inclusion and belonging programmes that are open to all Haleon employees. 

The personal information you provide will be kept confidential, used only for legitimate business purposes, and will never be used in making any employment decisions, including hiring decisions.

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Note to candidates

The Haleon recruitment team will contact you using a Haleon email account (@haleon.com). If you are not sure whether the email you received is from Haleon, please get in touch.