Associate Director - CRM & Field Platforms

About This Role: As the Associate Director, CRM & Field Platforms, you will play a pivotal strategic role in shaping the future of Biogen's customer engagement ecosystem by leading the strategy, governance, evolution, and adoption of CRM and field technology platforms across the North America organization. This role serves as the business owner and strategic leader for Biogen's CRM and Field Platform capabilities, ensuring that customer-facing teams are equipped with scalable, compliant, and innovative technology solutions that enable exceptional customer engagement and operational excellence. You will lead the ongoing evolution of Veeva CRM and related field technologies, driving platform optimization, business process transformation, and seamless integration across Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Patient Services, and other customer-facing functions. Acting as the primary liaison between business stakeholders, IT, Digital, Data & AI, Compliance, and external technology partners, you will be responsible for translating business needs into strategic technology roadmaps while accelerating the adoption of next-generation capabilities, including AI-enabled workflows, intelligent customer engagement, automation, and productivity-enhancing solutions. This critical leadership position sits within North America Commercial Operations and will play a central role in driving organizational transformation through technology modernization, digital innovation, customer-centric platform design, and future-state CRM capabilities. Beyond platform ownership, this role will help redefine how customer-facing teams leverage technology, data, and artificial intelligence to maximize customer engagement effectiveness, improve user experience, and deliver business impact.

What You’ll Do:

• Develop and lead the North America CRM and Field Platform strategy, roadmap, and governance model.
• Serve as the business owner and strategic lead for Veeva CRM and associated field technologies.
• Build and execute multi-year platform roadmaps aligned with Commercial, Medical, Market Access, and enterprise priorities.
• Establish platform governance processes that balance innovation, scalability, compliance, and user experience.
• Drive prioritization of platform enhancements, releases, investments, and capability expansion initiatives.
• Lead continuous optimization of CRM workflows, data capture processes, customer engagement capabilities, and field user experiences.
• Drive adoption and utilization of CRM capabilities across multiple customer-facing organizations.
• Partner closely with field leadership and business stakeholders to ensure CRM functionality aligns with business priorities and customer engagement models.
• Evaluate and deploy emerging Veeva capabilities that improve field effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Digital, IT, and Data & AI teams to identify, pilot, and scale AI-enabled CRM capabilities.
• Lead implementation of intelligent workflows, workflow automation, digital assistants, and advanced engagement tools.
• Develop and oversee CRM integration strategy across the broader commercial technology ecosystem.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives involving data integration, interoperability, user experience enhancement, and process optimization.
• Lead CRM-driven business transformation initiatives that modernize working models and customer engagement processes.
• Manage strategic relationships with Veeva and other external technology partners.

Who You Are: You are a strategic technology and business leader who understands how customer-facing organizations leverage technology to create meaningful customer engagements and drive business performance. You possess deep CRM expertise, strong business acumen, and a passion for innovation. You excel at translating complex business needs into scalable technology solutions and can effectively engage stakeholders ranging from frontline field leaders to senior executives. You understand that technology transformation is ultimately about people, adoption, and outcomes. You are equally comfortable discussing Veeva architecture, AI strategy, organizational change, customer engagement workflows, and commercial business priorities. You bring an enterprise mindset and a relentless focus on continuous improvement, user experience, and business impact.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree required; Advanced degree (MBA, MSc, Information Systems, Engineering, Technology, Business, or related field) preferred.
• 10+ years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, healthcare, commercial operations, or related technology experience.
• Minimum 5+ years leading CRM platforms, customer engagement technologies, or field technology organizations.
• Deep expertise with Veeva CRM, including platform strategy, governance, business ownership, enhancements, and
• lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated success leading CRM transformation, implementation, optimization, or modernization initiatives at scale.
• Experience leading large cross-functional initiatives involving business stakeholders, technology teams, vendors, and executive leadership.
• Strong understanding of customer engagement processes and customer-facing business operations.
• Experience managing platform governance, prioritization, release planning, and capability deployment.
• Experience designing and managing complex system integrations.
• Strong executive communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to influence without authority in highly matrixed organizations.
• Strong change management and organizational transformation experience.
• Experience managing external vendor relationships and strategic technology partnerships.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Veeva Vault, Approved Email, Engage, CRM Pulse, Nitro, Next Best Action, and emerging Veeva AI capabilities.
• Experience implementing or scaling AI-enabled CRM capabilities.
• Experience leveraging Generative AI, workflow automation, intelligent assistants, predictive recommendations, or digital engagement technologies.
• Salesforce ecosystem experience.
• Commercial Operations or Field Excellence leadership experience.
• Product launch and commercialization support experience.
• Field technology governance experience.
• Enterprise platform integration experience.
• Customer master data and CRM data architecture experience.
• Experience supporting large-scale organizational transformation initiatives.
• Team leadership and people management experience.

Highly Preferred

• Prior pharmaceutical field sales, field leadership, field medical, account management, or customer-facing commercial experience.
• Demonstrated understanding of field workflows, customer engagement processes, and the needs of customer-facing teams.
• Experience partnering directly with field leadership teams to design and implement technology solutions that improve field effectiveness and customer engagement.
• Experience translating field feedback into technology enhancements and business process improvements.
• Ability to serve as a strategic bridge between technology teams and field organizations.

Job Level: Management

Additional Information

The base compensation range for this role is: $162,000.00-$222,750.00

Base salary offered is determined through an analytical approach utilizing a combination of factors including, but not limited to, relevant skills & experience, job location, and internal equity.

Regular employees are eligible to receive both short term and long-term incentives, including cash bonus and equity incentive opportunities, designed to reward recent achievements and recognize your future potential based on individual, business unit and company performance. 

In addition to compensation, Biogen offers a full and highly competitive range of benefits designed to support our employees’ and their families physical, financial, emotional, and social well-being; including, but not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, Vision, & Life insurances
• Fitness & Wellness programs including a fitness reimbursement 
• Short- and Long-Term Disability insurance
• A minimum of 15 days of paid vacation and an additional end-of-year shutdown time off (Dec 26-Dec 31)
• Up to 12 company paid holidays + 3 paid days off for Personal Significance 
• 80 hours of sick time per calendar year
• Paid Maternity and Parental Leave benefit 
• 401(k) program participation with company matched contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan 
• Tuition reimbursement of up to $10,000 per calendar year 
• Employee Resource Groups participation

Why Biogen?

We are a global team with a commitment to excellence, and a pioneering spirit. As a mid-sized biotechnology company, we provide the stability and resources of a well-established business while fostering an environment where individual contributions make a significant impact. Our team encompasses some of the most talented and passionate achievers who have unparalleled opportunities for learning, growth, and expanding their skills. Above all, we work together to deliver life-changing medicines, with every role playing a vital part in our mission. Caring Deeply. Achieving Excellence. Changing Lives.

At Biogen, we are committed to building on our culture of inclusion and belonging that reflects the communities where we operate and the patients we serve. We know that diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives make us a stronger and more innovative company, and we are focused on building teams where every employee feels empowered and inspired. Read on to learn more about Biogen.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, race, color, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, religion, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. Biogen is an E-Verify Employer in the United States.