Senior Manager

Job Description Summary

- -Explore, develop, implement and evaluate Digital innovation solutions that address customer needs. Co-create with key stakeholders to build partnerships and collaborations -Leads the delivery of multiple projects across a variety of creative and marketing channels, including print and digital media. Develop and coordinate project plans across the design, development and production stages of a project to support the successful delivery within set KPI's. -Works in collaboration with brand teams, technical teams and all functions to maximize value. -Provides consultancy, advice and assistance on strategy for commercialization of products, and influence marketing/Marketing Sales Operation team on decision making on Sales Force resource allocation in most optimal ways, through delivery of proven analytics based projects. -Provide analytics support to Novartis internal customers

Job Description

Position Title: Senior Manager Location – Hyd |India| #LI Hybrid

About the role

In this role the new hire will get a chance to work directly with Commercial Excellence team members from country offices and expected to deliver quality with Incentive Calculations operations and related deliverables and lead some engagements. They will engage and identify shared priorities and meet customer’s needs through problem-solving techniques to improve patient outcomes.

This is an individual contributor role will work directly with commercial excellence teams in the countries and would report to a Team Leader/Group Leader

Key Responsibilities

• Create and deliver below Field Excellence reporting and insights as per agreed SLAs (timeliness, accuracy, quality, etc) and drive excellent customer service
• Designs, develop and/or maintains Alteryx based solutions that optimizes field excellence activities based on Country commercial excellence needs through varied variety of evolving infrastructure landscape. Findings of new visualizations tools is also possible.
• Deliver services through structured project management approach with appropriate documentation and communication throughout the delivery of services.
• Crafts and maintains standard operating procedures (SOPs), quality checklists that will enable excellent quality outputs for all outputs within the function.
• Develops and maintains knowledge repositories that collects qualitative and quantitative data of field excellence related trends across Novartis operating markets, etc
• Support team leaders in recruitment and on-boarding of new associates within the organization.
• Participate and chip in various knowledge sharing sessions that enables growth and improves quality deliverables across the function.
• Ensures outstanding communication with all partners including internal associates, and clients through regular updates with focus on accomplishments, important metrics, standard methodologies, staffing changes and key events.

Essential Requirements:

• Curiosity and strong analytical thinking, verbal and written communication skills and exposure to working in multi-functional/cultural environment.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills. Conceptual, analytical & tactical thinking, strategic thought process
• Align with all internal functional operating procedures like time tracking, critical metric tracking and reporting, and other internal systems and processes
• Comply to all Novartis operating procedures as per legal / IT / HR requirements
• Ability to operate optimally in an international matrix environment.
• Responsible for standard and ad-hoc extracts/reports across multiple primary and secondary data sources.
• Establish and maintain positive relationships with key functional partners

Desirable Requirements

• University/Advanced degree is required, Master’s degree or equivalent experience in fields such as business administration, finance, computer science or technical field is preferred
• Should have min of 10+ years of work experience in commercial excellence domain especially in Incentive compensation planning and administration. Candidate needs to be proficient in Qlik Sense, SQL, MS Excel, Alteryx, ETL Tool, Incentive compensation and good to have a pharmaceutical industry proven experience.

Why Novartis

Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us!

Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture

You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life

Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards

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Skills Desired

Agility, Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Building Construction, Business Analytics, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Digital Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Media Campaigns, Project Management, Sales, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Marketing