Customer Excellence Process Manager
Role Overview
Drive One Brand Plan / marketing planning cadence, ensuring timelines, governance, and quality standards
Ensure strong strategy-to-execution translation (clear KPIs, ICE alignment, measurable outcomes)
Continuously improve marketing processes, frameworks, and tools
Support capability building of marketers (skills, planning, execution excellence) to uplift marketeers' capability to be the best in industry and future-proof to changes in external environment (leveraging Marketing Academy executed by Capability Building)
Lead end-to-end launch planning and execution (pre-launch → launch → post-launch)
Orchestrate Launch Readiness Reviews (LRR) and governance processes locally
Monitor launch KPIs, risks, and cross-functional dependencies
Ensure alignment with global / regional launch frameworks
Orchestrate and maintain standard ICE (International Commercial Excellence) ways of working, including key steps, governance, roles and responsibilities, and documentation needed for country implementation.
Coordinate ICE deployment plans and timelines with Therapeutic Area (TA) teams, ensuring alignment with business cycles and local priorities.
Ensure ICE metrics and dashboards (e.g.
ICE Content & Campaign Performance Dashboard, basic ICE KPIs) are integrated into local performance conversations, while ownership of commercial decisions remains with TAs
Coordinate the schedule and agendas for ICE workshops
Monitor ICE adoption and process adherence across brands and TAs, identify gaps or issues, collaborate with EE Capability building for planning/executing necessary upskilling & refreshes, and propose concrete improvement actions.
Plan, orchestrate and document handshakes between TAs, Production Hub, CLS (Commercial & Launch Strategy), Customer Excellence and DAP (Data, Analytics & Platforms) for content creation, localization, tagging and activation, aligned with the Content & Campaign Operations Process Model (CCOPM) where applicable
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Experience required:
5+ years in Commercial Excellence, Customer Excellence, Marketing Operations, Commercial or similar roles, in pharmaceutical / life‐sciences
Track record in designing and improving end‐to‐end processes (mapping, simplifying, defining KPIs and governance) across multiple teams.
Ability to work with data and dashboards to identify process gaps and improvement opportunities
Awareness of compliance and governance considerations related to promotional and non‐promotional activities, patient experience and data usage; able to embed them into processes.
Excellent communication skills, able to translate complex frameworks and process concepts into clear, accessible guidance and tools for local teams.
Strong knowledge of compliance and governance in regulated environments
Ethical mindset and aligned with Novartis values
This is a unique opportunity to shape a newly created role and make a meaningful contribution to how Novartis drives customer excellence, commercial effectiveness, and launch impact.
If you are a marketer or commercial excellence professional who enjoys creating structure, generating insights, improving processes, and enabling teams to deliver measurable business impact, we would love to hear from you.
Skills Desired
Business Dashboards, Capacity Planning, Customer Service, Data Extraction, Data Quality, Merchandising, Performance Measurement
Qualifications
- Business Dashboards, Capacity Planning, Customer Service, Data Extraction, Data Quality, Merchandising, Performance Measurement
Preferred Qualifications
- Desired
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