R2858498 Customer Engagement Manager, Vaccines

• Location: HCMC, Vietnam
• 30 % of travel expected
• Job type: Full time, Permanent

About the job

Strategic context:

• Sanofi is implementing an ambitious plan called “DRIVE” complementing our Play to Win Strategy with 3 main objectives (i) keep fuelling our pipeline (ii) make Sanofi a modern science-driven healthcare company (iii) serving our patients.
• In this context, Sanofi made the decision to evolve its commercial model from GBU-specific country organisations to a more standardized and consistent approach, boosting efficiency. The focus will be on (i) Key Markets and most innovative products as major drivers for growth and (ii) a cross-GBUs efficiency model with optimised country set-up.

Key dimensions - Scope & Scale:

The Customer Engagement Manager role is designed to focus exclusively on customer engagement at the country level. This role includes directly engaging with customers, understanding their needs and preferences, and driving strategies that enhance customer satisfaction and loyalty.

• Customer Strategic Focus: Lead the implementation of a customer-centric strategic focus that aligns with overall business objectives, identifying key opportunities to enhance engagement and satisfaction.
• Customer Persona Development: Craft detailed customer personas based on robust data and insights, enabling the team to deeply understand the motivations, challenges, and behaviors of different customer segments.
• Customer Journey Mapping: Map out comprehensive customer journeys for each persona, identifying key touchpoints and opportunities to engage and add value.
• Customer Engagement Plan: Design and implement a strategic customer engagement plan that leverages identified personas and journey insights with detailed activities, channels, and messages tailored to engage each segment effectively, driving meaningful interactions and building strong relationships.

Go-to-Market

• Channel Assessment & Choices: Conduct thorough assessments of available go-to-market channels, evaluating their effectiveness in reaching target customer segments. Make strategic choices about which channels to prioritize based on alignment with customer preferences and behaviors, ensuring efficient and impactful reach.
• Call Plan by Channel: Develop detailed call plans for each chosen channel, outlining the frequency, messaging, and objectives of interactions. This planning ensures that all customer communications are consistent, personalized, and strategically timed to optimize engagement and response rates.
• Launch Excellence & Readiness: Fuel ongoing launch energy and execution readiness to deliver business goals. Work closely with MCO Brand Manager to adapt Global/MCO strategy and develop local integrated launch roadmap & governance to achieve launch success. Ensure local plans focus on resource requirements and key issues to address. Coordinate Country Brand Team, drive execution of local launch deliverables and track progress, manage interdependencies, and continuously adapt plans to strengthen growth trajectory and maximize market penetration.
• Glocal Context Elaboration: Articulate a “glocal” strategy that balances global brand strategies with local market nuances. This involves adapting global engagement initiatives to fit local customer preferences and regulatory environments, ensuring strategies are both globally aligned and locally resonant.

Launch excellence and readiness:

Main responsibilities:

Execute innovative customer engagement strategies within country, 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: 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...)
• 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.
• CustomerInsight 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 Collaboration:
  • Execute customer engagement with a strong “Customer First” ethos and excel in their engagement initiatives
  • Work in close cooperation with the salesforce & other functions to ensure a seamless and positive customer journey
  • Work in Agile when possible with the transversal team when possible, with an innovation mindset

Ways of working

• You will role model Play-To-Win principles and behaviors, delivering high performance in the “what’s” and “how’s”.
• You will adopt digital transformation and Agile methodology (e.g. Leveraging data and AI) to accelerate & scale -up new operating models
• You will successfully adapt / evolve ways of working while delivering business results / avoiding business disruption.
• You will champion transversal ways of working by fully leveraging centralised and standardized Sanofi frameworks (e.g., GTMC, MCO teams..)
• You will work closely with MCO brand manager and Franchise head, ensure full alignment with MCO strategies, pricing and foster seamless collaboration with MCO teams. Implement routine MCO - country exchanges enabling open dialogue, learnings and tracking milestones.

About you

Work Experience:

• Brand Management Experience: 5+ years of progressive experience in brand management.
• Experience in Customer Engagement: Proven experience in executing customer engagement or relationship management initiatives, preferably within the healthcare or pharmaceutical / vaccines sector. This includes a track record of delivering exceptional customer experiences and a deep understanding of customer engagement channels and tools.
• Customer Engagement Strategy Execution: Proven track record of developing and implementing successful customer engagement strategies that have significantly improved customer satisfaction and loyalty
• 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

Knowledge:

• Education Background: Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or any related field
• Pharmaceutical / Vaccines Industry Understanding: Deep understanding of the pharmaceutical / vaccines 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 with strong communication skills

Skills and Competencies:

• 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

Personal Characteristics: Hands-on, execution and result orientation, accountability, creativity, initiative, high persistence and resilience, stress management, learning agility, ability to work on one’s own, continuous improvement.

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Be part of a high-impact vaccines business focused on improving public health outcomes in Vietnam.
• Work in a highly collaborative regional and global environment with exposure to innovative customer engagement models.
• Contribute to digital transformation initiatives that leverage data, AI, and agile methodologies to enhance customer experiences.

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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