*summary*:
one of the most important functions in today’s biopharmaceutical industry is patient services. As ease of accessing hcp prescribed medications has become more difficult, the ability of a company to build, design, implement, and run dynamic end-to-end patient support offerings has become critical to patients successfully starting and staying on therapy. This role is responsible for managing the people, processes and tools that deliver outstanding contact center performance. You will manage a team of analysts assigned to support the patient support center (psc). The psc is a novartis managed, internal pss contact center staffed by these customer facing roles: reimbursement specialist, case navigator and intake specialist.
*about the role*:
*your responsibilities will include, but are not limited to*:
- meet and exceed performance metrics, operations reporting, customer satisfaction, and coaching.
- play an active role to maintain and build enterprise performance operations tools, methodologies, people and processes
- ability to work effectively as a people manager and in a team structure; maintain strong cross-functional ties with key business partners
- calculate, record and analyze call, case and agent performance data and report and present key performance indicators (kpis) to management and/or customers; identify areas of greatest need or opportunity for improvement leveraging technology tools employed for call recording, sentiment analysis
- routinely assess training compliance and intervene to address training compliance problems
*what you’ll bring to the role*:
- bachelor's degree required/desired
- pharmd, rn or master’s degree a plus
*required experience*:
- 5+ years' experience in pharmaceutical hub, case, reimbursement and/or patient services operations
- 5+ years of contact or call center process, call monitoring with a history of leading continuous performance improvement initiatives
- a history of meeting and exceeding performance metrics, operations reporting, customer satisfaction, and coaching.
- effective leadership skills, including change management for rapidly changing technology and growth in the number of psc roles on-boarding
- experienced in establishing and cultivating relationships; able to collaborate effectively with key stakeholders and partners across the organization
- ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and handle multiple programs and tasks
- ability to analyze problems, identify alternative solutions and implement recommendations for resolution
- working with qa monitoring systems such as genesys, nice, verint or other solutions
- ability to grow with the evolving patient support center landscape
- ability to build, inspire, and motivate a team
- travel as required to east hanover nj, tempe az, hyderabad india
*preferred experience*:
- knowledge of call center industry practices, reimbursements and payer systems, healthcare protocols and us healthcare system processes
- omni channel experience supporting monitoring of voice calls, transcription recordings, chat, sms, fax
- use of varied approaches to motivate, engage and grow an employee-centric high performing team
- ability to work effectively as a people manager and in a team structure; maintain strong cross-functional ties with key business partners
- experience with effectively managing in a rapidly changing business environment
- experience with quality monitoring systems, benchmarks, metrics and processes. Ai experience a plus.
Division
us
business unit
innovative medicines
location
mexico
site
insurgentes
company / legal entity
mx06 (fcrs = mx006) novartis farmacéutica s.a. de c.v.
Functional area
quality
job type
full time
employment type
regular
shift work
no
*accessibility and accommodation*:
novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.