
Director, Field Excellence, Delivery
- Hyderabad, Telangana
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Key Integrator: Act as main point of contact and representative of the Field Excellence team in India
- Talent Development: Hire, train, develop, and manage talent to meet organizational needs
- Global Collaboration: Act as the primary point of contact for Field Excellence leadership in the US and the offshore team in India, either through our Contract teams or direct AIN FTEs
- Operational Excellence and Delivery: Oversee end-to-end delivery of core field analytics, operations, incentive compensation, and field systems and platforms ensuring quality, scalability, and operational efficiency, while promoting best practices in field effectiveness approaches and methodologies
- Lead/ co-lead special initiatives and projects (e.g. sales force go-to-market, size & structure, sub-national analytics, launch readiness)
- Oversee execution and pull-through of field force capabilities – customer targeting, field reporting, field alerts / suggestions, omnichannel / digital, field transformation, etc.
- Oversee IC Program delivery excellence (analytics design and health checks, administration and operations, field and data inquiry management, performance tracking and reporting, platform operations)
- Offshore Vendor Management: Manage offshore teams including CWs, maintaining quality of service and timely deliverables
- Innovation Leadership: Foster a culture of innovation, ensuring the India team remains at the forefront of emerging technologies and trends in field force effectiveness and enablement
- Continuous Improvement: Lead identifying and prioritizing areas of opportunity across the organization. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement organizational improvements.
- Automation: lead the piloting, planning, and implementation of automation across the Field Excellence capabilities
- Business Impact & Collaborator Management: Ensure capability solutions drive tangible business outcomes and collaborate with global key collaborators to refine requirements, measure impact, and report progress
- Master’s degree & 18+ years of experience in sales analytics, sales operations, and/or field effectiveness OR
- Bachelor’s degree & 20+ years of experience in sales analytics, sales operations, and/or field effectiveness AND
- 8+ years of leadership experience directly managing people, teams, projects, programs, and directing the allocation of resources
- Relevant sales force effectiveness, sales operations, incentive compensation, and field platforms and systems (i.e. CRM, sales operations enablement, reporting) experience in the bio/pharmaceutical industry
- Analytical Skills: The ability to analyze data, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions is crucial. This includes proficiency in statistical analysis and familiarity with tools like Excel, SQL, and data visualization software.
- Technical Proficiency: Knowledge of relevant software and technologies, such as sales planning and operations platforms (targeting, alignment and roster management, incentive compensation), sales CRM, and other field-specific tools, is important.
- Critical Thinking: Strong analytical skills to diagnose business issues and incorporate into development or adjustment of strategies, plans and tactics to achieve business objectives
- Project Management: Ability to lead cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements to field analytics and operations processes
- Collaboration: Ability to work effectively with stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for initiatives
- Communication: Effective communication is key, both in writing and verbally. This includes the ability to present data and findings clearly to stakeholders and team members.
- Minimum 5 years experience in leading and delivering sales force Go-To-Market and Size and Structure strategy project
- Experience in successfully deploying AI/ML based Next Best Action recommendation engine to optimize field execution and customer experience
- Leadership experience in building and developing high performance teams, delivering results, and shaping the future
- Ability to foster and encourage an environment of openness and transparency in seeking diverse opinions and empower risk-taking in idea generation, idea incubation and/or experimentation
- Ability to think strategically about issues impacting an entire portfolio of therapeutics across geographies and stages of development
- Experience managing multiple senior stakeholders, prioritizing across a multitude of responsibilities and allocating resources to drive maximum impact
- Partners with business leaders to deliver high-quality predictions that guide strategic decision making
- Oral, written and presentation skills to explain complex concepts and controversial findings clearly to a variety of audiences, including senior management
- Comfortable challenging the status quo and bringing forward innovative solutions
- Ability to identify areas for process and systems innovation and implement change that will enhance the overall effectiveness of the team
- Comfortable working through and leading large-scale global change management
- Understanding of technology platforms and ability to partner with IS/IT and business leaders