Summary
As Customer Excellence Head, you will act as the execution engine for customer engagement success, ensuring best-in-class omnichannel orchestration, launch readiness, and content activation. You will drive excellence frameworks (ICE, IpEx, DRO) and enable high-impact customer journeys that improve engagement quality and business performance.
About the Role
Key responsibilities
- Lead omnichannel content activation and customer journey orchestration across CRM and marketing platforms
- Ensure readiness and execution of launch excellence processes including LRR
- Drive implementation of ICE, IpEx and DRO frameworks across teams
- Oversee meetings, congresses, and events logistics, vendors, and budget management
- Enable AI-driven field force planning and resource optimization
- Ensure One Brand Plan milestones and marketing excellence standards are executed
- Orchestrate patient and payer engagement frameworks across channels
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to enhance customer engagement and performance
- Ensure compliance, governance, and KPI tracking across all activities
Essential Requirements
- University degree in bioscience or business; advanced degree preferred
- 8–12+ years in customer excellence, commercial excellence or omnichannel roles in pharma
- Strong experience with CRM, marketing automation, and omnichannel orchestration
- Proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams
- Experience in launch readiness and execution excellence
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Knowledge of compliance and regulatory environment
- Fluent in English; local language desirable
Why Novartis
We are reimagining medicine to improve and extend people’s lives. Join us to make a meaningful impact on patients while working in a collaborative, innovative environment.
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Why Novartis: Helping people with disease and their families takes more than innovative science. It takes a community of smart, passionate people like you. Collaborating, supporting and inspiring each other. Combining to achieve breakthroughs that change patients’ lives. Ready to create a brighter future together? https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Benefits and Rewards: Learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally.
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