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Merck & Co. jobs
New Jersey (NJ), Rahway
Job Code:  MERCUSR286795ENUS
Employer:  Merck & Co.
Category:  Marketing
Job Type:  Full Time

Location
Country:  United States
State:  New Jersey (NJ)
City:  Rahway
03/29/2024

Description
Job Description

Description of Position

The Global Commercial and Digital Experience (CDX) team is a newly formed organization, serving as part of Global Marketing, Commercial Services and Technology Solutions (GMCS & TS). Working cross-functionally, the CDX team aims to enable the enterprise to disrupt the present and build the animal health of tomorrow by designing and delivering advanced commercial capabilities and ambitious digital experiences to help the business launch their next big bets and enable innovation at global scale. We partner across the enterprise to design, scale, enable and sustain capabilities and solutions that generate the greatest impact for the business and value for our customers. We are the critical mass required to support the enterprise across biopharma, technology and intelligence portfolios as they create moments that matter with customers to become the best animal health company in the world.

If you are a strategic thinker with an enterprise mindset and a passion for driving business growth through commercial and digital transformation, this role might be your next opportunity.

The Director, Customer Experience and Media Optimization will report into the Executive Director, Customer Experience & Content Excellence Lead. As the Customer Experience & Media Optimization Lead, you will play a critical role in enhancing the overall one animal health customer experience and identifying media optimization opportunities to drive business growth and maximize ROI. The ideal candidate is someone who will be responsible for developing and executing a comprehensive customer experience and media optimization discipline aligned with the organization's overall business objectives.

In this role, you will have the ability to think above product/brand, species, and business units, with a laser focus on delivering value to our customers, collaborating across the organization, acting as the guardian of building a Customer Experience discipline & media optimization capability.

This role will develop a methodology to understand the needs of existing and target customers - and be able to translate insights into actionable commercial initiatives. This role will support in defining and mapping the end-to-end customer journey (at a company level), to deliver the one animal health experience needed to maximise engagement and retention across our animal health portfolio.

In addition to understanding the theory of customer experience, they must be able to operationalize learnings, connect with the business and enable the enterprise to truly embed a customer - centric vs. product-centric mindset. They will be experienced in UX principles and user-centered design, with the ability to facilitate Design Thinking workshops involving cross-functional teams with diverse thinking.

They will identify opportunities to connect and enhance the one animal health customer journey and deliver a best-in-class experience.

They will be responsible for setting CX objectives and metrics to measure impact and customer satisfaction, aligned with leadership teams. In addition, this role will support in the optimization of media throughout the global organization, creating standards to drive continuously improving value and ROI.

Responsibilities:

One Animal Health Customer Experience Strategy:
  • Develop and implement a customer experience strategy, discipline, and measurement plan (including CSAT, NPS, etc...).
  • Interpret customer needs, preferences, and trends to inform strategic planning supporting broader enterprise goals, above products.
  • Define and articulate a clear vision and roadmap for customer experience excellence.
  • Identify and prioritize key areas for improvement and innovation in the one Animal Health customer journey.

Activate, create, centralize, and maintain customer personas:
  • Create and maintain a library of customer insights and personas that marketers should leverage across the entire customer lifecycle and one animal health ecosystem.
  • Define data-driven customer personas giving characteristics to individuals for the purpose of empathetic end-to-end journey development and measurement.
  • Ensure successful execution of a strategy against well-defined personas to ultimately measure customer satisfaction (CSAT), net promoter score (NPS), customer lifetime value (CLV) or an equivalent happiness / trust score.
  • Build a consistent persona library to be used across marketing, sales and service, and actively used to design all company-level, customer journeys and experiences.
  • Ensure personas are not defined in siloed parts of the organization and/or used as a one-time exercise. Make personas part of our business-as-usual processes.

-Identify Opportunities to improve connectivity across customer touchpoints:
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams across Global Marketing, Regions, Markets, CDX, and IT to improve connectivity across touchpoints and develop business cases for new channels for activation or innovation.
  • Focuses on the handoffs between digital to physical touchpoints, and vice versa, ensuring a seamless experience and addresses areas of friction which could lead to retention issues, and inability to execute against end-to-end journeys.

Champion and Foster a customer-centric culture:
  • Advocate for customer-centricity across the organization and drive a customer-centric culture.
  • Develop and implement training programs to enhance employee understanding and commitment to delivering exceptional customer experiences.
  • Establish shared customer experience metrics (NPS, CSAT, CLV, Trust Index, etc..) to monitor customer experience and satisfaction and drive accountability, as well as defining a process for how this will be executed and measured across platforms and touchpoints with the customer.

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Monitor and address customer feedback:
  • Monitor customer feedback through various channels, such as surveys, reviews, and social media and promptly address any negative feedback or complaints and take proactive measures to resolve customer issues.
  • Embed mechanisms to capture customer feedback across all touchpoints.
  • Develop and implement programs to increase customer loyalty, retention, and satisfaction.
  • Proactively identify and resolve customer pain points and friction areas.
  • Analyze customer feedback and data to identify trends and develop actionable insights.

Optimize Media Opportunities & Spend:
  • Ensure best practice and centralization of paid and owned media planning is in place, reducing duplicative spend.
  • Build mechanisms to ensure successful enablement of paid and owned media strategies and platforms.
  • Optimize paid and owned media budgets across multiple channels and platforms to maximize ROI and drive business growth.
  • Develop a Global to Local culture of learn, improve and optimize together.
  • Support in ensuring Media spend is optimized across the enterprise.
  • Generate regular reports and insights for stakeholders to inform decision-making and optimize marketing strategies.
  • Define clear processes and ways of working for enabling media opportunities and social platforms across the enterprise.

Monitor industry trends and best practices:-
  • Champion cross-functional ideation of opportunities to leverage generative AI and automation to accelerate our business processes and insights to improve the customer experience.
  • Stay up to date with industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in customer experience.
  • Benchmark against competitors and other industry leaders to drive innovation and differentiate our customer experience.
  • Keeps abreast of industry trends, competition, and emerging customer experience practices.
  • Continuously seeks innovative ways to improve the customer experience and provide a competitive edge in the market.

Education:
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, marketing, or related areas of study.

Required:
  • Minimum 10 years of proven experience in roles such as Digital Marketing, Customer Experience, Branding/Personalization strategies, or Commercial Operations.
  • Proven commercial Customer Experience and Digital Transformation leadership.
  • Customer focused with a strong value-based approach; champions a customer-focused culture.
  • Strong understanding of customer experience methodologies and strategies.
  • Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate at all levels of the organization.
  • Proven track record of developing and implementing successful customer experience initiatives.
  • Demonstrated success in developing and executing a CX vision and plan globally.
  • Ability to simplify the complex and define a path forward, getting consensus across diverse stakeholders.
  • Experience in measuring ROI and effectiveness of CX initiatives
  • Strong understanding of customer behavior, user experience, customer-centered design principles and content strategy.
  • Outstanding analytical skills and the ability to assess disparate data streams and distil them into meaningful, actionable strategic insights and recommendations.
  • Successful design and deployment of change management tools and techniques resulting in widespread adoption of delivered systems.
  • Ability to work alone and through an enterprise organization, creating advocacy at all levels.
  • Strong program management skills.-Demonstrable ability to develop and execute complex cross-functional plans.
  • Proven ability to build highly effective collaborative working relationships with key internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
  • Executive presence.- An accomplished presenter and visionary who has successfully built support for, and secured funding for, large-scale enterprise-wide initiatives.
  • Proactive, innovative spirit in researching and ability to respond quickly to new ideas and trends.
  • Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

NOTICE FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS

In accordance with Managers' Policy - Job Posting and Employee Placement, all employees subject to this policy are required to have a minimum of twelve (12) months of service in current position prior to applying for open positions.

If you have been offered a separation benefits package, but have not yet reached your separation date and are offered a position within the salary and geographical parameters as set forth in the Summary Plan Description (SPD) of your separationpackage, then you are no longer eligible for your separation benefits package. To discuss in more detail, please contact your HRBP or Talent Acquisition Advisor.

Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders). -Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Expected salary range:
$181,600.00 - $285,800.00

Available benefits include bonus eligibility, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. - For Washington State Jobs, a summary of benefits is listed here .

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Employee Status:
Regular

Relocation:
Domestic

VISA Sponsorship:
No

Travel Requirements:
10%

Flexible Work Arrangements:
Not Applicable

Shift:
Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:
No

Hazardous Material(s):
N/A

Requisition ID:R286795
ref: (MERCUSR286795ENUS)
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