REQ-10010356
Jun 27, 2024
Croatia

Summary

-Act as a Sales Force Effectiveness business partner to the sales leaders by designing & implementing Sales Force Effectiveness deliverables including measuring product access and sales performance, segmentation & Targeting, account planning, incentive calculation, CRM system management & creating insights through market analytics. Contribute to the definition of a roadmap on how to excel through sales effectiveness and efficiency in the future. Track all relevant KPIs and sales performance in a standardized manner and be able to comply with future requirements of the market.

About the Role

Major accountabilities:

  • Develop, support, and ensure the successful implementation and execution of the Commercial Strategy with new capabilities including Go-to-Market models
  • Setup infrastructure, systems and processes in close alignment with Regional Commercial Excellence team (CRM, Analytics, Dashboards, Insights, etc.) and ensure high data quality and utilization
  • Implement standardized Sales Force Effectiveness systems, tools, analytics, performance dashboards and quantitative and qualitative KPIs
  • Manage Field Force productivity and improve quality and transparency of resource allocation decision making by targeting and segmentation, territory design/ alignment, Field Force capacity planning, product allocation, call plan design and monitoring, account planning and performance measurement
  • Drive the systematic generation of insights and generating recommendations for the business
  • Ensuring the compilation and monthly analysis of market data
  • Support and encourage Therapy Areas to provide innovative, digital and competitive operational Go-to-Market models, fostering the culture of excellence
  • Encourage omnichannel framework, trigger data behind digital efficiency and helps business to drive innovation in the area of customer engagement
  • Deliver and support innovative, competitive and performance driven incentive models
  • Align strategic company and Business Unit objectives with commercial and promotion plans and incentive schemes
  • Support projects for the business unit that involve resource allocation (e.g. launch planning)
  • Support Field Force development, upskilling and capability building.
  • Reporting of technical complaints / adverse events / special case scenarios related to Novartis products within 24 hours of receipt -Distribution of marketing samples (where applicable)

Key performance indicators:

  • Timeline, quality and budget of projects
  • Management of systems to ensure accurate reporting e.g. customer calls (CRM) and account planning activities and others
  • Delivering best practice (innovative-digital) Go to Market models
  • Accurate implementation of the incentive scheme and payment calculations
  • Implementation & delivery of launch and post launch measurements
  • Cross-functional collaboration

Minimum Requirements:
Work Experience:

  • Extensive experience (minimum 10 years; of ComEx/Field Force Effectiveness and/or Sales leadership role (e.g.  Customer Engagement Lead or First Line Manager )
  • Proven track-record of strategy, commercial and innovation management in pharma

Skills:

  • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data
  • Business Analysis
  • Proficiency in CRM systems
  • Strong project management skill & innovation management skills
  • Extremely well-developed understanding of country regulatory and Pharma market environments
  • Experience across multiple countries/markets is benefit
  • Perfect understanding of new digital trends & innovative solutions, technology platforms and products
  • Experience in people development
  • Results oriented mindset, and willingness to have extensive involvement in day-to-day operations
  • Change management skills and relentless quality mindset
  • Business partnership, multi-stakeholder collaboration and influencing across matrix
  • Experience across multiple countries/markets is benefit

Languages :

  • Local language.
  • English.

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International
Innovative Medicines
Croatia
Croatia
Sales
Full time
Regular
No
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REQ-10010356

Customer Insights and Field Force Engagement Manager Adriatic

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