Associate Director, CRM Innovation & Emerging Technology

East Hanover, NJ (On-site)

$153K/yr – $283K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own the de risking and rapid prototyping lab for CRM driven value, coordinating across CRM Product, IT and governance teams to turn experiments into production viable concepts.

  • De risking cycles: ideation through proof of concept with clear endpoints.
  • Cross functional governance: work with Product, architecture, analytics, privacy, and compliance to keep scope and compliance in check.
  • Decision readiness: translate learnings into next steps and roadmap with business value signals.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Execute the CRM Labs de-risking model: Run work through structured, timeboxed stages including ideation support, shaping, prototyping, review and decision, and proof-of-concept readiness.
  • Lead tactical implementation of rapid prototyping: Plan and oversee 1-to-2-week prototype iterations with a maximum four-week lifecycle per initiative, ensuring disciplined scope and clear endpoints.
  • Translate opportunities into testable concepts: Partner with Product Owners, business stakeholders, and technical teams to define value hypotheses, assumptions, success criteria, and practical build plans.
  • Drive evidence-based decision making: Capture learnings from each cycle and prepare recommendations to refine, advance to proof of concept, or off-ramp initiatives based on business value, technical signal, and enterprise readiness.
  • Coordinate cross-functional execution: Work across CRM Product, IT, architecture, engineering, UX, analytics, privacy, legal, security, and compliance teams to ensure experimentation is feasible, governed, and aligned to enterprise standards.
  • Support proof-of-concept planning and transition: Clarify scope, dependencies, risks, governance needs, user involvement, and enterprise gates required to test in real environments.
  • Protect production capacity and enterprise investment: Ensure Lab work remains focused on de-risking and does not become shadow delivery, unmanaged customization, or parallel production execution.
  • Document and operationalize learnings: Produce concise outputs including findings, decision logs, opportunity assessments, prototype outcomes, and recommendations that inform product roadmap and scaled delivery decisions.
  • Maintain governance, privacy, and compliance: Follow established guardrails for privacy, security, compliance, and data usage, especially as initiatives progress from prototype into proof of concept.
  • Partner in demand intake and prioritization: Support regular triage of ideas from leadership, Product, business and field teams, IT, and lab-sourced opportunities, helping assess fit, readiness, and strategic value.
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Novartis is an innovative medicines company. Every day, working to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives so that patients, healthcare professionals and societies are empowered in the face of serious disease. Our medicines reach more than 250 million people worldwide. Find out more at https://www.novartis.com See our community guidelines: https://go.novartis.social/3Nboxki

Founded in 1996
Münchenstein, Basel-Country, CHE
82K employees (4,325 in marketing)

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