Associate Director, US Customer Experience, Oncology

The Customer Experience (CX) Associate Director is responsible for playing an integral role on the extended cross-functional support team for the commercial teams. The CX Associate Director will bring Digital/CRM subject matter expertise to strategic plans and have responsibility for ensuring the Customer Experience is optimized for key stakeholders: Health Care Professionals (HCPs), Patients, and other customers.. This role serves as a business partner in the development and pull-through of a differentiated and insights-driven customer experience. The role supports the commercial teams by leading the orchestration and alignment of touchpoints across the customer journey.

This role will also be accountable for bringing expertise and leadership support to advance the Digital Transformation key priorities. Specifically, developing and maintaining education experience designs, ensuring adherence of customer privacy and compliance practices, drafting of campaign business rules and requirements, as well as identifying and partnering with Analytics teams to develop and utilize sound measurement/reporting constructs for all programs. The CX Associate Director will also ensure that all Digital/CRM activities align and integrate well with the existing Digital/CRM multi-channel ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead Customer Experience design and CRM/Digital expertise in support of the commercial teams.
• Guide development of impactful and relevant in-field team and non-personal promotional tools and assets.
• Lead proof of concepts/pilots for emerging digital capabilities.
• Provide commercial teams with support by managing the development and completion of execution plans (timelines) from start to finish for CRM/Digital programs (ie. Social, email, website touchpoints).
• Collaborate effectively in a matrixed environment with Commercial, Medical Affairs, Creative/CRM/Digital agencies, Media, Market Research, Analytics, Business Technology Solutions (BTS), Field Operations, and Medical/Regulatory/Legal integrated business partners.
• Maintain a deep understanding of customer insights, journey and segmentation strategies - and apply them to CRM/Digital campaigns and programs.
• Lead cross-functional team (Commercial/Medical Affairs/CX/MABI/Agency) to design and implement ideal customer experience aligned to journey phases and promotional strategy.
• Provide input and inspiration through active participation in the annual strategy and tactical planning process.
• Partner closely with Medical/Regulatory/Legal/Privacy partners to educate, lead and help AbbVie anticipate and balance organizational needs with pilots. Present capabilities and garner buy-in/feedback from senior leadership across various stakeholder functional areas.
• Troubleshoot roadblocks and identify creative and compliant solutions to facilitate forward motion of new initiatives.
• Provide CRM/Digital execution and response channel/tactic expertise across all channels (e.g. Email, Web, Mobile Apps, Social)
• Collaborate with commercial team to recommend and build feasible campaign and program test & learn plans to inform optimization recommendations. Develop and manage tactic test plans/QC before, during and after campaign launch
• Guide creative agencies to ensure the development of relevant, 1:1 creative and messaging, including CRM/Digital marketing best practices.
• Understand and execute data capture and data privacy (opt management) consistently across all channels.
• Identify new or unique CRM/Digital data requirements needed for program.

Competencies:

• Ability to work and lead independently initiatives without day to day supervision
• Able to prioritize & gracefully manage competing priorities to ensure deadlines are met.
• Collaborative nature and ability to influence and guide cross-functional stakeholders.
• Exceptional functional knowledge and expertise on digital marketing platforms.
• e.g. CRM, email marketing best practices, marketing cloud technology
• Acumen for how digital agencies operate: scope of work process/mgmt., timelines
• Inquisitive, strong analytical skills, including the ability to infer and apply learnings.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Attention to detail and follow-through on execution.
• Strong project management abilities and critical work tool experience.
• e.g. Excel, Visio, MS Project, PowerPoint

Key AbbVie Leadership Competencies:

• Positive "all for one" approach to team deliverables and priorities.
• Builds strong relationships to enable higher performance.
• Learns, fast, grasps the "essence" and can change course quickly where indicated.
• Raises the bar and is never satisfied with the status quo.
• Creates a learning environment and open to suggestions.
• Embraces the ideas of others, nurtures innovation and manages innovation to reality.
• Demonstrate a "servant-leader" approach while bringing deep subject matter expertise

Basic:

• Bachelor's degree in Science, Business, or Marketing with seven to ten plus (7-10+) years of CRM/Digital experience.
• 3-5 years Pharmaceutical Industry experience preferred
• Demonstrated experience with start-to-finish planning/executing multi-channel digital marketing/CRM programs, including: websites, email, emerging media tactics, mobile (apps/sites/media/SMS), SEO/SEM, social media/social listening.
• Must have thorough understanding of measuring impact of digital/CRM including social analytics, SEO measurement/management, digital/mobile metrics.
• Strong experience with enterprise CRM/Database/ESP platforms in an operational/executional capacity.
• Must have experience with personalization, 1:1 approaches/data capture techniques (ie. email, addressable media, dynamic web), application of legal/privacy terms & conditions.
• Must have experience identifying and outlining key campaign metrics (KPIs) and building campaign pro-formas/measurement plans/marketing analytics.

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