CXF Manager
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About the Role
Takeda Pharmaceuticals seeks a CXF Manager to lead the local transition to the Customer Experience of the Future (CXF) platform, ensuring stable CRM environment and driving adoption for Medical and Commercial teams.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the end to end technical migration to Customer Experience of the Future (CXF) in Canada, including planning, configuration, validation, cutover, and local change management
- Drive deployment, readiness, adoption, and value realization of new CXF capabilities for Medical and Commercial teams
- Lead migration of Medispend and related customer engagement capabilities to CXF in close coordination with cross functional teams
- Coordinate local user enablement and adoption activities so new platform capabilities are embedded effectively in Canada
- Ensure CRM and CXF interoperate effectively with adjacent customer experience, content, and analytics platforms
- Serve as the DD&T owner for CRM and related customer engagement platforms
- Manage platform configuration, releases, integrations, access management, and operational support
- Enable customer engagement capabilities including audience management, lead generation, and campaign execution
- Ensure interoperability across customer engagement, content, and analytics platforms
- Monitor platform health, utilization, and effectiveness
- Coordinate with IBU, DD&T, Commercial and Marketing Operations, and cross functional teams to plan, implement, and communicate new modules, capabilities, and platform releases
- Partner with business teams to improve platform utilization, data quality, and local process adherence
Requirements
- University degree required in a relevant field such as information technology, computer science, business, life sciences, or a related discipline
- 5 7 years of relevant CRM/technology experience in pharmaceutical/life sciences, in roles such as CRM Product Owner, CRM/Technology Manager, Project Manager, Analyst, or Business Partner
- Experience leading platform migrations or major CRM releases, ideally including next generation customer engagement platforms
- Strong hands on expertise with CRM and related platforms — Veeva CRM, Salesforce, Veeva Vault, Align, PromoMats
- Effective stakeholder and change management skills in a complex, global, multi stakeholder organization
- Demonstrated business analysis and project management skills, including translating business needs into technology requirements
- Knowledge of data privacy, consent management, and compliance requirements in a regulated environment
- Working knowledge of Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) processes an advantage
Full Job Posting
About the role
- As the CXF Manager, you will be responsible for enabling the successful deployment, adoption, and optimization of CRM and related customer engagement platforms within the LOC.
- You will lead the local transition to the Customer Experience of the Future (CXF) platform, ensuring a stable, compliant, and well supported CRM environment while planning and executing the end to end migration to CXF.
- The role is accountable for driving adoption of new capabilities and ensuring they deliver value for Medical and Commercial teams.
CXF Migration & Adoption
- Lead the end to end technical migration to Customer Experience of the Future (CXF) in Canada, including planning, configuration, validation, cutover, and local change management.
- Drive deployment, readiness, adoption, and value realization of new CXF capabilities for Medical and Commercial teams.
- Lead migration of Medispend and related customer engagement capabilities to CXF in close coordination with the Tech & AI Partner, Medical Excellence, Data Excellence and Digital CX to ensure aligned delivery, integration, and continuity of customer journey capabilities.
- Coordinate local user enablement and adoption activities so new platform capabilities are embedded effectively in Canada.
- Ensure CRM and CXF interoperate effectively with adjacent customer experience, content, and analytics platforms.
CRM & Customer Engagement Platforms
- Serve as the DD&T owner for CRM and related customer engagement platforms.
- Manage platform configuration, releases, integrations, access management, and operational support.
- Enable customer engagement capabilities including audience management, lead generation, and campaign execution.
- Ensure interoperability across customer engagement, content, and analytics platforms.
- Monitor platform health, utilization, and effectiveness.
- Coordinate with IBU, DD&T, Commercial and Marketing Operations, and cross functional teams to plan, implement, and communicate new modules, capabilities, and platform releases.
Platform Governance, Configuration and Compliance
- Partner with business teams to improve platform utilization, data quality, and local process adherence, and gather user feedback to identify improvement opportunities.
- Gather user feedback and identify improvement opportunities.
- Own CRM and CXF configuration aligned to Canada business needs and evolving platform requirements.
- Oversee and evolve user access management and related controls to support secure and efficient platform use.
- Lead execution and maintenance of data privacy processes, including consent management and privacy notices in partnership with cross functional teams.
- Ensure compliance with Takeda policies, global governance, and security standards.
Future Platform Capabilities
- Support deployment and adoption of AgentForce and AI enabled CRM capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to improve customer engagement and operational efficiency through automation and emerging technologies.
- Support the evolution of future customer engagement platform capabilities in line with Canada LOC priorities.
What you bring to Takeda
- University degree required in a relevant field such as information technology, computer science, business, life sciences, or a related discipline.
- 5 7 years of relevant CRM/technology experience in pharmaceutical/life sciences, in roles such as CRM Product Owner, CRM/Technology Manager, Project Manager, Analyst, or Business Partner.
- Strong growth mindset, with openness to feedback, continuous learning, and adapting quickly in a changing business and technology environment.
- Experience leading platform migrations or major CRM releases, ideally including next generation customer engagement platforms is critical.
- Strong hands on expertise with CRM and related platforms — Veeva CRM, Salesforce, Veeva Vault, Align, PromoMats.
- Effective stakeholder and change management skills in a complex, global, multi stakeholder organization.
- Demonstrated business analysis and project management skills, including translating business needs into technology requirements.
- Knowledge of data privacy, consent management, and compliance requirements in a regulated environment.
- Working knowledge of Sales Force Effectiveness (SFE) processes e.g. targeting, interaction planning an advantage.
- Data driven and quality focused — uses data to make decisions and takes pride in trustworthy, well governed CRM data.
- Bridges technology and business — communicates complex platform and data topics clearly to technical and non technical audiences.
- Takes initiative and works independently; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset.
Base Salary Range
- CAD 127,000.00 CAD 173,800.00
- The estimated salary range reflects an anticipated range for this position. The actual base salary offered may depend on a variety of factors, including the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attai
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