Location: Madrid or Barcelona #LI-Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage and coordinate the Business Excellence and Customer Engagement (BECE) organization and its main initiatives. This includes measuring the success of all pillars against the value case with internal and external KPIs, to enable a feedback loop supporting continuous improvement.
• Lead cross organization transformational initiatives (e.g. account management, omnichannel transformations, customer centricity transformations, and commercial excellence transformations).
• Maintain the Business Excellence and Customer Engagement plan, with 1) Roles & Responsibilities, 2) plan, track and execute the multiyear investment plan and 3)  coordinate the resource roadmap, collaborating across BECE LT and other stakeholders / functions. Manage multi-year BECE operational budget and forecast.
• Define, manage, and optimize BECE processes and standards.
• Own change management & communication & engagement within BECE.
• Contribute to capturing input from field management and head office management to contribute to the ongoing development of Customer Experience and AI and ensure ingestion of these insights into CX/AI strategy.
• Act as gatekeeper to cascade above-country initiatives to Spain, coordinate and establish Spain-Global collaboration to maximise implementation of specific projects and explore opportunities to collaborate across countries.
• Identification and provisioning of standardized KPIs and impact measures. Establish a shared KPI framework and standardized reporting. Identify areas of optimization including CX / AI / ML inputs.

Essential requirements:

• Business Experience (Marketing &/or Sales) in the healthcare sector - deep strategical expertise in the design & implementation of pharma commercial models (past, current and future) and understanding of relevant trends in the industry. Alternatively, a consulting background in the pharma industry will also be considered.    
• Experience in leading strategic projects and coordination and management of multistakeholder and multiconcept programmes. Proven experience in project/programme management best practices, tooling and ways of working would be very valuable.
• Proven experience working with Local, Global and Regional teams. 
• Capacity to navigate complexity and to drive effectiveness across the function and in collaboration with other functions in Novartis local and global teams.
• Experience in change management initiatives and read to implement best practices.
• Strategic/Business Mindset, continuous improvement abilities and strong collaborative, negotiation, and analytical skills.
• Fluent speaker of English and Spanish languages.

Benefits and Rewards:

Company Pension Plan, Life and Accidental Insurance, Meals Allowance or Canteen in the office, Flexible working hours. Read our handbook to learn about all the ways we’ll help you thrive personally and professionally: Novartis Life Handbook

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion / EEO

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.