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Channel Strategy Lead - Owned

Employer
Novo Nordisk
Location
Plainsboro, NJ
Start date
Aug 23, 2024
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Discipline
Marketing, Strategic Marketing
Required Education
Bachelors Degree
Position Type
Full time
Hotbed
Pharm Country, Best Places to Work

Job Details

About the Department 

Our Commercial Strategy and Marketing group creates and delivers human-centered experiences, where innovation meets customer-centricity, driving the ultimate experience for our patients. Our focus extends beyond transactions to craft experiences as one fully integrated, aligned and connected organization that puts empathy at the center, powered by insight and foresight.

 

We develop an end-to-end approach to strategy, focusing on every touchpoint that impacts our customers. We leverage data and insights to inform our decision-making processes, ensuring that our strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. Our 'test and learn’ mindset and approach enables us to iterate rapidly and refine our strategies based on real-world results.

 

We are building an intentional team culture that is made up of diverse skillsets, united by the shared belief that reinvention and learning is what fuels continuous growth. Do you get excited about exploring the unknown? Does the idea of driving value through human-centered design pull you in? Are you ready to experiment with us?

 

The Position

The purpose of the Channel Strategy, Owned Lead is to lead the development of comprehensive strategies for owned digital properties that align with overall marketing objectives and support business goals. This role involves developing strategies for property evolution that meet brand objectives and target audience preferences, leading strategic initiatives to disseminate best practices through targeted training, curated resources, and campaign performance analysis. The Lead will lead and develop a team of strategists focused on owned properties such as centralized patient and HCP hubs and direct channels such as web, email, SMS, and chat. Responsibilities include partnering with brand teams and Experience Operations to advise on commercial strategies. Furthermore, the Lead is responsible for advancing channel standardization and innovation, developing channel best practices and governance to maximize the effectiveness of channels.

 

Relationships

The role of Channel Strategy, Owned Lead reports directly into the Omnichannel Engagement Lead. The role will regularly interface with their direct reports across customer and patient portal teams. Additionally, this role will interact with other teams within Omnichannel Engagement, including the Therapeutic Area Orchestration Strategies and Experience Operations Teams. The Lead will also interface with teams across the enterprise, including Commercial Excellence and Innovation, brands, Patient Support Programs, MAPA, IT and CMR.

 

Essential Functions

  • Strategy & Execution: Lead the development of comprehensive strategies for owned digital properties and channels that align with overall marketing objectives and support business goals. Develop comprehensive strategies for property evolution aligned with overall brand objectives and target audience preferences. Lead strategic initiatives to disseminate best practices through targeted training sessions, curated resources, and campaign performance analysis, empowering marketers to optimize owned digital channels effectively. Drive brand and creative strategies on the HCP and patient hubs, managing relationships with agency partners to ensure ongoing design and UX enhancements. Drive the development and oversight of customer acquisition strategies across NNI customer portals and other owned channels
  • Leadership & Team Management: Lead and develop a team of strategists focused on owned properties and owned direct channels including web, email, SMS, chat and others
  • Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration: Regularly present owned property strategy to brand and senior management. Ensures alignment of plans with brand teams, providing guidance/insights and soliciting feedback. Collaborate with Experience Intelligence to share regular reports and insights to stakeholders, identifying trends, opportunities, and areas for optimization to drive continuous improvement. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g., brand, Experience Operations, Orchestration Leads) to plan and execute content calendars, ensuring a consistent and engaging presence across all owned channels. Partner with Omnichannel orchestration, brand teams and Experience Operations to advise on owned property strategy
  • Channel Standardization & Advancement: Develop standardization, best practices, and governance for web, email, SMS, and chat channels to empower brands to leverage personalization, modular content, and advanced analytics models
  • Compliance & Best Practices: Ensure owned properties are compliant with legal, privacy, and regulatory guidelines.  Cultivate a culture of continuous learning and improvement by championing the sharing of industry best practices and emerging trends in digital marketing channels. Develops and advances first party acquisition strategies across owned properties in support of NNI enterprise for HCP and patient audiences
  • Measurement, Optimization & Innovation: Monitor campaign performance, adjusting strategies, and optimizing budgets to maximize ROI and achieve campaign objectives. Conduct regular audits of owned channels to assess performance, identify areas for improvement and innovation, and ensure alignment with brand standards and guidelines. Coordinate and drive channel-level insight readouts to key stakeholders, demonstrating channel performance and identifying trends and opportunities for growth
  • Consent Management: Develop and implement a comprehensive consent management strategy across all acquisition channels, ensuring compliance with global privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA) by collaborating closely with privacy and legal teams, monitoring and auditing consent practices, enhancing customer experience, integrating consent principles into acquisition strategies, utilizing data analytics for reporting, training internal stakeholders, and staying updated with regulatory changes
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    Physical Requirements

    Hybrid policy: 3 days in office, 2 days remote.

    Approximately 20-30% overnight travel.

     

    Development of People

    Ensure that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.

     

    Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

     

    Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.

     

    Qualifications

  • A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred with a concentration in Business, Marketing, or a related field
  • 12+ years of experience in digital marketing, strategy development, or related roles in a commercial organization
  • Proven track record of developing and executing strategies for owned digital properties at a senior management level
  • Experience managing customer and/patient portals within a pharmaceutical organization preferred
  • Strong understanding of digital marketing tools and platforms, including email marketing systems, SMS and digital assistant
  • Proven knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including Medical, Regulatory, clinical processes and market dynamics preferred
  • Proven success in developing strategy through expert understanding of market and industry
  • Ability to manage complexity, including the leadership of work across competing priorities
  • Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate insights into actionable marketing strategies to guide customer experiences
  • Proven track record of innovative customer experience tactics/high impact results (based on metrics/ROI)
  • Outstanding planning and organizational skills with exceptionally high attention to quality of detail and proven track record of results and follow up
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to influence senior leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization
  • Embodies leadership behaviors, including authenticity, servant leadership, will, empathy, decisiveness, and driving focus and simplicity
  • Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
  • People management experience required, with a proven track record of development and coaching
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    We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

     

    At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.

     

    Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

     

    If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

    Company

    Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 54,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. For more information visit novonordisk.com.

    Our US Research & Development hub, located in the Greater Boston area, brings together the best talent to drive life science innovation. Located in Lexington, Watertown and Cambridge, our teams reflect the full scope of R&D, from early research through late-stage clinical development. We are building for the future by creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. By combining the speed and agility of biotech with the quality, resources, and stability of a large pharmaceutical company, our US R&D hub will benefit from the best of both worlds to develop new medicines that meet the needs of patients.

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    Location
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    Lexington
    MA
    02421
    United States

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