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Position: Associate Director Omnichannel Strategist

Location: Japan (Tokyo Otemachi office)

Reports to: head of Japan Omnichannel Strategy

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Position Summary

The Omnichannel Strategist acts as member of Worldwide Commercialization Excellence (WCE) for brand teams, pulling in cross-functional resources as needed to ensure successful delivery of omnichannel strategy and campaigns. This role is deployed to brand teams, to lead digital and media channel planning in collaboration with our business partners, and leads cross-functional teams (business, matrix, agency partners) to execute and optimize campaigns, tactics, and programs to meet and exceed business strategy and objectives.

Purpose/Objective of the Job:

• Plan and execute omnichannel brand campaigns, programs, media planning & campaigns and tactics - driving operational effectiveness, business impact and achievement of objectives.

• Partner with business and other WCE functions (e.g., Content Delivery and Customer Engagement Platform Team) on development of overall omnichannel strategy followed by more specific digital channel strategy to meet business and customer needs.

• Partner with BI&A to develop metrics and measurement plans and deliver omnichannel insights and recommendations for ongoing optimization of omnichannel strategy

• Leverage Digital Capabilities and Customer Engagement Excellence principles, standards, and best practices to drive results for the business. Examples include Omnichannel and advanced analytics, content modularization, CRM, websites, Interactive visual aids (IVAs), email, social media, Remote Engagement and Search Engine Marketing. Other examples to be identified based on business/customer needs and prioritized according to the identified customer experience journeys.

• Identify and run experiments with IT / CEP to pilot/scale future digital marketing capabilities.

• Act as a coach to brand teams to ensure adoption of new ways of working with specific focus on omnichannel strategy

Key Responsibilities:

• Leads brand omnichannel planning and content strategies in partnership with marketing across cross-functional stakeholders for multiple customers as prioritized by the brand lead.

• Leads cross-functional matrix teams to enable seamless execution of business strategy and lead execution of derivative content and digital campaigns/tactics

• Contributes to continuous improvement of engagement, channel, content and analytic planning frameworks and tactical templates to use across cross functional brand teams.

• Leads and coordinates regular insights and metrics discussions with business partners in partnership with the BI&A team to ensure frequent optimization of the engagement, content and channel plans.

• Collaborates with BI&A to ensure KPI identification, measurement plans and optimization of omnichannel campaigns and customer journeys

• Coordinates with Marketing, BI&A, Customer Engagement Platforms, IT, Digital Production, Content Delivery, and rest of WCE teams on the following activities:

• Prioritization of campaigns and tactics

• Definition of campaign/tactic success (e.g., development of metrics plan)

• Evaluation and optimization of tactics

• Driving tactical plan to accomplish KPI and business objectives

• Provides omnichannel subject matter expertise into the ongoing evolution of customer engagement model by working with business leads on critical business priorities

• Maintains view of the competitive landscape and has a broad perspective across BMS and pharma industry to identify and drive best practice around omnichannel expertise

• Drives innovation culture and coordinates with business and capability leads to develop innovative digital tactics and apply metrics, analytics, and insights

• Identifies long-term process needs of the business partners focused on omnichannel capabilities, developing, and executing a plan to address business requirements

• Identify opportunities for synergies and collaboration within and across markets within a therapeutic area

• Identify, share and lead implementation of best practices in OC planning, content creation, platform development, etc. across TAs / brands

• Lead on the relationship with digital agencies/vendors to define project scope, costs, timelines, and deliverables

• Partner with content stewards, Production & Content Delivery to provide early insight into crossmarket material creation to drive content/asset re-use.

• Deliver campaign briefs and other necessary requirements documentation to support the development of programs

• Monitor, manage and provide regular updates on campaign/project financials

• Partner closely with Production and Content Delivery to provide direction, support to project teams, and implement changes when needed to achieve project objectives

• Monitor project status and budget and provide regular reporting on progress, challenges, and solutions

• Collaborate with other Omnichannel Strategy teams to enable consistency and best practice sharing across the enterprise

• Identify business process and capability improvement opportunities aligned to the needs of the business/customers

• Flex coverage across Omnichannel Strategy teams on as-needed basis

• Manage / communicate with / present to senior stakeholders (e.g. up to GM level locally, global leadership level globally)

Disclaimer: The responsibilities listed above are only a summary and other responsibilities will be requirements as assigned)

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 4-year bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred

• 8+ years' experience in Digital /Omnichannel Marketing leadership, including marketing/customer engagement strategy, brand/business planning, analytics, multi-channel (digital and non-digital) marketing operations and campaign/tactic execution/management

• Broad, high-level demonstration of competencies listed below

• Business-level fluency in Japanese and English

Key competencies desired

Omnichannel excellence:

• High-level Strategic Thinking and Articulation

• Strong record of accomplishment of developing and executing omnichannel strategies and tactics (across personal, non-personal promotional channels)

• Considerable experience in omnichannel marketing in industries with high digital usage

• Experience working with and directing external creative and media agencies

• Insight and Analytical fluency

• Financial and Business acumen

• Knowledge of industry trends and benchmarks for content and channel performance across different customer types

• Data-driven customer experience

• Understands media planning, buying and pull-through

• Leverages creative and analytical approaches to identify and activate paid, earned and owned channels

Customer-backed performance management:

• Adopts a customer-focused mindset in building strategy and tactics; understands unique customer preferences for omnichannel deployment

• Maintains a robust set of metrics / KPIs in partnership with BI&A to track omnichannel campaign performance by customer segment with feedback loop to inform on-going omnichannel strategies

• Drives trade-off decisions anchored in data

• Partners with BI&A to understand omnichannel preferences for different customer segments

• Demonstrates ability to deliver on customer needs and optimize customer experience

Content production and deployment management:

• Experience operating in agile teams; ability to coach teams on agile ways of working for content creation

• Facilitates content delivery process for brand teams, enabling agile ways of working

• Knowledge and experience with MLR processes for content production

• Knowledge of requirements for omnichannel pull through; adopts new tech / ways of working to enable content deployment faster (e.g., modular content)

• Experience using modular content creation (e.g., tagging, taxonomy)

Leadership and cross-functional collaboration:

• Strong demonstrated ability to lead and influence a cross-functional team, including senior management

• Has a record of accomplishment of fostering a collaborative environment and creating a strong rapport

• Leads change, mentors and upskills teams

If you come across a role that intrigues you but doesn't perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will transform your life and career.

Uniquely Interesting Work, Life-changing Careers

With a single vision as inspiring as Transforming patients' lives through science™ , every BMS employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion, innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.

On-site Protocol

BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:

Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as directed is an essential job function.

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Company: Bristol-Myers Squibb

Req Number: R1580415

Updated: 2024-07-08 04:15:22.545 UTC

Location: Otemachi-JP

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