I bridge the gap between nutrition science and the consumer. I can see the big picture and distil technical jargon into compelling marketing messages.I have managed healthcare professional and consumer nutrition and science marketing strategy for Danone, Unilever and Glanbia Nutritionals in Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America. Leveraging my technical background as a Nutrition Scientist with a Master’s degree in Human Nutrition, I craft and communicate global nutrition campaigns for internal and external audiences. Most recently, I established the Medical Affairs team at Danone Early Life Nutrition Hong Kong office. Our team helped to shape the external pediatric nutrition environment and generated scientific content for consumer and health care professional marketing. Ultimately, we were recognized as a Medical Affairs best practice leader. Throughout my 10-year career at Danone, I developed and rolled out global programs about the importance of infant nutrition and raised the visibility of the research conducted at our world-class R&D facility in the Netherlands.Early in my career, I had the opportunity to establish the Nutrition function at Glanbia Ingredients and Glanbia Foods. At the time, Glanbia’s Nutrition function was nascent and I was given a blank sheet to raise their profile as an expert in nutrition. I established a health influencer network, identified opportunities to communicate new innovations and led the set-up of a consumer care line.I’m passionate about training, coaching and developing culturally diverse teams and creating an inclusive and empathetic culture that allows everyone to do their best work. I have had the opportunity to lead teams of up to 6. I embed coaching principles into my leadership style and practice what I preach by enrolling in continuous development training in coaching and cross-functional leadership.I’m fluent in Finnish, English and Swedish and can converse in French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch. I’ve recently embarked on intensive Mandarin Chinese language study and I am progressing rapidly to conversational fluency.To have a discussion about working together on your healthcare professional or consumer management and marketing strategy , please reach out to me on sirpajohannaseppanen@gmail.com. I am open to project, consulting or flexible opportunities.Specializations: healthcare professional; consumer management; marketing strategy; life sciences, science communication, nutrition scientist; marketing and communications