Customer Engagement Lead EP

About the job

The Customer Engagement Lead role is designed to focus exclusively on customer engagement at Turkey level. This role assumes paramount importance in directly engaging with customers, understanding their needs and preferences, and driving strategies that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.

Main responsibilities

Lead and execute innovative customer engagement strategies within Turkey, prioritizing direct interactions with customers. The role aims to embody and advocate for a “Customer First” philosophy, ensuring that all engagement initiatives are deeply aligned with customer needs, thereby driving satisfaction and loyalty.

• Customer Engagement Strategy: Develop and implement a comprehensive customer engagement strategy that prioritizes direct, meaningful interactions, leveraging insights to drive engagement and satisfaction
• Design customer journeys: Ensure the personalization of customer interactions & content across channels
• Analyze touchpoints across the customer journey: Leverage data to understand individual preferences and tailor the customer experience, ensuring a more personalized and relevant engagement
• Content Strategy Plan: Develop the adapted content, on a glocal manner, in respect of the regulatory frame & in coordination with the dedicated partner functions (medical, regulatory...)
• Collaboration with Brand Leads: Work closely with Brand Leads to ensure that engagement strategies complement and amplify brand strategies, align with the overall objectives
• Omni-Channel Engagement: Utilize an omni-channel approach to engage customers across multiple platforms, ensuring consistency and personalization in all communications to meet customers where they are.
  • Map out the entire customer journey, identifying touchpoints across various channels.
  • Analyze how customers interact with the brand at each touchpoint and work to optimize these interactions for a seamless and positive experience.
• Customer Insight and Analysis:
  • Collect customer feedback and insights to identify areas for improvement
  • Enhance customer satisfaction, loyalty, and overall experience by addressing pain points and meeting customer expectations
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead the customer engagement with a strong “Customer First” ethos, empowering team members to innovate and excel in their engagement initiatives
  • Work in close cooperation with the salesforce optimizing processes and systems to ensure a seamless and positive customer journey
  • Ensure that employees understand and deliver a positive customer experience is a key aspect of CX roles. This involves training employees to meet customer expectations and handle various customer interactions effectively
• Work in Agile when possible with the transversal team when possible, with an innovation mindset

About you

• Education Background: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or any related field
• Pharmaceutical Industry Understanding: Deep understanding of the pharmaceutical industry’s regulatory environment, market dynamics and customer engagement
• Customer knowledge: Understanding HCPs preferred experiences. Deep knowledge of key clients & the end-to-end customer journey. CX professionals need to identify and map out the various touchpoints and interactions customers have with the company, from initial awareness to post-purchase support
• Knowledge and experience of innovative methodologies such as scrum, lean start up, nudge and design thinking. Out of the box thinker, always searching for new opportunities
• Technical proficiency: Experience with digital engagement tools, AI applications for customer insights, and familiarity with Agile methodologies
• Language Proficiency: Fluent in English and Turkish, with strong communication skills

Critical experiences required to be successful in the role:

• Customer Engagement Strategy Execution: Proven track record of developing and implementing successful customer engagement strategies that have significantly improved customer satisfaction and loyalty
• Experience in Customer Engagement: Proven experience in Leading customer engagement or relationship management initiatives, preferably within the healthcare or pharmaceutical sector. This includes a track record of delivering exceptional customer experiences and a deep understanding of customer engagement channels and tools
• Digital Transformation Initiatives: Hands-on experience in leading digital transformation projects, specifically those enhancing customer engagement through AI and data analytics
• Agile Project Leadership: Demonstrated ability to manage projects using Agile methodologies, effectively leading cross-functional teams and adapting strategies in a dynamic, fast-paced environment
• Regulatory compliance: Experience ensuring all customer engagement activities comply with local regulations and ethical standards, particularly in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry

Professional Skills That Make The Difference:

• Strategic and Analytical Thinking: Ability to leverage insights and data to develop and execute effective customer engagement strategies
• Leadership in a Customer Centric Environment: Demonstrated ability to lead by example, fostering a “Customer First” culture within the team and across the organization
• Customer-Centric Mindset: A deep commitment to understanding and prioritizing the customer’s needs and preferences. Demonstrated experience in implementing strategies that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty is essential
• Adaptability and Creativity: Flexibility to adapt strategies in real-time based on customer feedback and market changes, and creativity in finding new ways to engage and delight customers
• Collaborative skills: Strong collaborative skills to work effectively with Brand Leads and cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment between customer engagement and brand strategies
• Ability and mindset to adapt to new ways of working such as Agile. Leveraging Agile methodologies for cross-team project and initiatives
• Technical Proficiency: Proficiency in digital engagement tools and platforms, with a strong understanding of how AI can be applied to enhance customer interactions and personalize communication

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

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