Senior Manager Incentive Compensation
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
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SUMMARY
The Sr Manager Incentive Compensation will be responsible for developing sales force incentive compensation solutions that effectively motivate the sales force and achieve the sales and marketing strategy. The position: primarily interfaces with sales and brand leadership; focuses on plan design, goal / quota setting, awards and recognition, reporting, administration, and communication of plans.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Incentive Compensation Design
Designs incentive plans in collaboration with sales and marketing leadership that align with the brand and sales strategy as well as our IC PhilosophyDevelops various plan design options and conduct relevant analyses to appropriately evaluate each option
Goal/Quota Setting
Designs methodology for allocating the national commercial demand forecast goal to the sales force including fairness testing to ensure goals (or other metrics) are fair and equitable
Administration
Plans and coordinates implementation of incentive plan with related areas (data operations and sales leadership)Collaborates with Legal, HR, and Sales leadership to create/maintain eligibility documents and track eligibility for all field sales programsResponsible for communication of Plans, Contests, Awards, Results, and Reports, to IC Governance Committee, Sales and Marketing Leadership and Field Sales teamsResponsible for Monthly Tracking of program performance including projecting payouts and creation of payroll files and summary documentationExecutes on IC production schedule as determined by cross-functional team
Awards and Recognition
Responsible for the Design, Implementation, Monthly Reporting, Calculation of Winners for the national sales award programs (President’s Club, etc.)Collaborates with Marketing and Sales leadership to design and implement SPIFFs and local contests
REQUIRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and SKILLS
Accredited Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of industry (pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical device) or consulting business experience with quantitative analytics, financial, sales operations, incentive compensation, and/ or project management focus ORAccredited Master’s degree in relevant field with 3+ years of analytics work experience or pharmaceutical/healthcare industry experience3+ years sales force incentive compensation experienceStrong analytical and problem-solving skillsStrong communication skills, both written and verbal with an ability to communicate with both technical and non-technical subject matter expertsProven ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously, taking initiative and working independentlyStrong consultation and presentation skillsAbility to establish detailed timelines and ensure milestones are completedStrong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word skillsAbility to operate in a fast-paced environment
PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and SKILLS
Accredited Master’s Degree3+ years pharmaceutical sales force incentive compensationExperience with other Sales Operations processes such as CRM systems, reporting, call planning or promotional responseExperience working with Business Intelligence reporting tools (Qlik, Tableau)Knowledge of pharmaceutical data (i.e. retail/ non-retail, specialty pharmacy, payer, claims, etc.)Experience communicating with multiple levels of leadershipProject Management Skills
TRAVEL
Willingness/Ability to travel up to 20% domestically. International travel may be required.
Why Lundbeck
Lundbeck offers a robust and comprehensive benefits package to help employees live well and protect their health, family, and everyday life. Information regarding our benefit offering can be found on the U.S. career site.
Lundbeck is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to disabled veterans and other individuals with disabilities during our employment application process. If, because of a disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please visit the U.S. career site.
Lundbeck is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by law, rule, or regulation. Lundbeck participates in E-Verify.
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