Academic Affairs Senior Advisor

At CooperVision, a business unit of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), we’re driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at www.coopervision.com.

Job Summary:
As a senior individual contributor within Professional Affairs, this role serves as a key driver of long-term growth—advancing early adoption, prescriber pipeline development, and sustained portfolio preference—and acts as a clinical and technical expert supporting field sales teams and customer needs.

Essential Functions & Accountabilities:

Academic Strategy & Market Development

• Develop and execute a comprehensive U.S. academic and provider engagement strategy aligned with CVI’s commercial priorities and portfolio growth objectives
• Identify and prioritize target institutions, residency programs, and provider networks based on influence, graduate output, and clinical alignment
• Position academic institutions as “Tier 0” strategic accounts within the U.S. commercial ecosystem
• Advise internal leadership on academic trends, competitive dynamics, and future prescriber pipeline risks/opportunities

Curriculum & Clinical Training Integration

• Partner with key stakeholders to expose optometry students to CVI products and technologies (curricula, labs, and clinical training environments)
• Ensure CVI products are shared for hands-on training and patient care at student events

Faculty, KOL & Provider Engagement

• Build and maintain relationships with: 
  • faculty leaders and residency directors
  • community-based clinical preceptors and provider networks
• Serve as a trusted clinical advisor to key academic and provider stakeholders
• Establish and participate in: 
  • faculty advisory boards
  • provider forums
  • academic collaborations
• Leverage these relationships to influence: 
  • Understanding of CVI portfolio
  • clinical protocols
  • broader prescribing behavior across networks

Student & Residency Pipeline Development

• Advance student and resident engagement initiatives, including: 
  • ambassador programs
  • externships and rotations
  • experiential training opportunities
• Partner with residency programs and clinical sites to integrate CVI into specialty and advanced care pathways
• Support development of Centers of Excellence and high-impact training sites

Commercial Integration & Prescriber Conversion

• Partner with Sales, Marketing, and Professional Affairs to align academic initiatives with U.S. commercial strategies and territory priorities
• Enable structured pathways to convert: 
  • students and residents → new prescribers → active CVI customers
• Support transition strategies that reinforce early-career adoption and sustained portfolio utilization

Field Sales Technical & Clinical Support

• Serve as a clinical and technical subject matter expert to the U.S. field sales organization
• Provide support for: 
  • complex product and application questions
  • advanced fitting and troubleshooting
  • clinical objections and competitive positioning
• Deliver in-field education, customer consultations, and case support alongside sales teams
• Contribute to tools and training that enhance sales team clinical capability and effectiveness

Product Strategy & Insight Generation

• Establish feedback loops from: 
  • students
  • faculty
  • residents
  • community providers
• Translate insights into recommendations for: 
  • product development
  • clinical strategy
  • portfolio positioning
• Provide perspective on emerging clinical trends and evolving educational needs

Brand & Market Leadership

• Drive CVI’s reputation as the preferred manufacturer across U.S. academic and provider environments
• Ensure consistent, high-impact representation of CVI in: 
  • academic institutions
  • clinical training settings
  • conferences and professional forums
• Represent CVI as a