What's your name?
What's your title or function?
Executive Director, Customer Experience Planning & Optimization
What industry do you work in?
Pharma.
What led you to this career path?
A bit of luck - I was working in a digital strategy role and our organization restructured the team to create this new function. I've spent the last 7+ years of my career in 3 different companies to create this capability.
When you started in this job function where did you need to get up to speed?
Starting in the role I was more of an expert in digital media but needed to really understand all media channels, their role within the ecosystem, and how content is consumed. I also look at the entire ecosystem - anyone who reads ANY content we create is a "customer". I try to identify barriers for each of those customers and remove them - so it takes me to multiple parts of the organization (Sales, supply chain) that I may not be familiar with.
When you started in this job function where did you hit the ground running?
I've been in my new role (less than 2 months) - I took the first few weeks to listen and understand how the team was working before coming in with suggestions on how we could re-organize to drive this new capability and process. It's highly reliant on data and analytics, so need to ensure the "pipes" are working and delivering good data in a timely manner.
What does your day-to-day work look like?
I lead integrated marketing strategy that drives true behavior change. Understanding the various drivers behind the existing behaviors allows us to create messaging to help overcome those barriers.
What are some of the challenges that you run into in your role?
FOMO - many people on the team want to be a part of EVERY decision rather than empowering individuals to make a decision and holding them accountable for that decision. In addition, those unfamiliar with my role can feel nervous that I'm coming in to take their work vs. driving more synergies throughout the ecosystem.
What types of questions are you asking regularly in your role?
Why? With the objective of driving behavior change, I need to truly understand the drivers, the "why", behind their behaviors.
What's your favorite piece of career advice you've received?
You often learn more from failure than you do from success. Fail fast and continually optimize.
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