ROLE INTERACTS DIRECTLY WITH:
Internal stakeholders – Brand & Growth leadership, Marketing & Communications, IT / Digital, Information Security, Legal & Compliance, Institutes / Service Lines, Patient Access, Patient Experience, BI / Finance
External – CRM, CPaaS and agency vendors
TYPE OF INTERACTION
CRM strategy and approvals, system integration, data protection and compliance, patient-journey design, performance reporting
Implementation, SLA management and service negotiation
PRIMARY JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develops and owns the patient CRM strategy and multi-year roadmap, aligned with CCAD's institutional, marketing and patient-experience priorities.
- Builds the business case, resource plan (people, technology, budget and vendors) and phased implementation plan for the CRM program; presents, communicates and defends the strategy with senior stakeholders and governance committees.
- Sets quantitative benchmarks and targets for the CRM program and reports performance against them to leadership.
- Leads the set-up of the CRM ecosystem – core CRM platform, CPaaS messaging channels (SMS, WhatsApp Business, email and app push notifications), tracking and attribution, and reporting tools – in partnership with IT, Digital and vendors.
- Defines business and data requirements, integration flows and data governance with source systems, including single patient view, data quality, and consent and preference management.
- Manages CRM, CPaaS and agency vendors, including requirements, SLAs, performance and contract negotiation, in line with CCAD procurement processes.
- Designs audience segmentation and lifecycle journeys across the patient journey (e.g. acquisition, onboarding, pre- and post-visit, preventive and screening, service-line and loyalty programs).
- Plans, orchestrates and optimises automated and campaign-based communications across channels, including contact strategy, frequency capping, personalisation and A/B testing.
- Works with content and service-line teams to ensure messaging is clinically accurate, patient-appropriate, bilingual (English/Arabic) where required and consistent with CCAD's brand.
- Establishes the CRM measurement framework, dashboards and reporting (reach, deliverability, engagement, conversion, volume and revenue impact, opt-outs and patient feedback), and uses test-and-learn insight to continuously improve performance.
- Ensures all CRM activity complies with UAE regulations and DoH requirements – including data-protection and health-data laws, TDRA requirements for commercial messaging, WhatsApp Business policies, DoH healthcare advertising requirements and the Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard (ADHICS) – and with CCAD policies.
- Establishes CRM governance, including consent (opt-in/opt-out) processes, approval workflows, data-access controls, messaging standards and incident escalation.
- Leads, coaches and develops CRM team members and vendor resources, and builds CRM capability across the Marketing & Communications team.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
ROLE LEVEL ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Present effectively
- Align with compliance framework
- Lead, coach, and develop team members and manage team performance
- Review and monitor service level agreements with internal & external partners
- Manage and be accountable for the CRM program budget to achieve goals
- Contribute to knowledge and workplace information systems
- Establish recordkeeping framework
- Produce a range of complex reports and business documents
- Contribute to organization and national development of Healthcare
- Establish and maintain strategic local and international networks
- Implement and use IT systems, software and telecommunication devices effectively
- Use business equipment effectively
- Maintain own technical currency
- Use negotiation and conflict-management skills to effectively resolve issues
- Apply reflective practice, thinking and analysis
- Adheres to CCAD's standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
- In view of the evolving needs and opportunities within CCAD, this position may be required to perform other duties as assigned and reporting relationships may vary.
KEY OUTPUT / RESULTS FROM THE ROLE (KPI’S)
1- KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
CRM program set-up and consented reach
MEASURE
Roadmap milestones delivered on time and within budget (core CRM, CPaaS channels, tracking and reporting live); number and % of active patients with valid contact data and documented channel consent
TARGET
[Milestone dates per approved roadmap]
[Consented-reach baseline in first 90 days; annual target to be set]
2- KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
Engagement and business impact
MEASURE
Delivery, open/read, click and opt-out rates by channel; appointments, bookings or service-line volumes attributed to CRM; return on CRM investment
TARGET
[Channel benchmarks and annual impact targets to be agreed with service lines after baseline]
3-KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATOR
Compliance and stakeholder management
MEASURE
100% of communications sent with documented consent; data/privacy incidents and audit findings (incl. ADHICS); internal stakeholder satisfaction
TARGET
100% consented sends; zero reportable incidents; 85% stakeholder satisfaction
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics or a related field.
- Certification in a recognised CRM or marketing-automation platform (e.g. Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Adobe, Braze) or in data privacy (e.g. CIPP) is highly desirable.
Experience
- Minimum of 6 years of progressive experience in CRM, lifecycle marketing and direct (multi-channel) campaign management, including leading programs, agencies and vendors.
- Demonstrated experience setting up or scaling a CRM program, including integrating a core CRM platform with messaging channels (SMS, WhatsApp, email, app notifications), tracking and reporting systems; experience taking a CRM implementation from vendor selection to go-live is highly desirable.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in audience segmentation, campaign analytics and performance reporting against quantitative targets.
- Experience in healthcare or a healthcare-related sector (e.g. hospital/provider, health insurance, pharmaceutical or health-tech) at some point in career, and experience within the UAE/GCC commercial and regulatory environment; patient-engagement experience with a UAE healthcare provider is highly desirable.
Job Specific Skills and Abilities
- Strong working knowledge of patient/consumer messaging across SMS, WhatsApp Business, email and app push notifications, including deliverability, message templates, sender registration and opt-in/opt-out management.
- Sound understanding of CRM/CDP, CPaaS, marketing-automation and analytics/BI tools, and of data-integration concepts (APIs, data mapping, identity resolution); experience integrating with EMR or patient-portal systems is an advantage.
- Working knowledge of UAE regulations relevant to patient communications and data, including Federal Decree-Law No. 45 of 2021 on the Protection of Personal Data, Federal Law No. 2 of 2019 on the Use of ICT in Health Fields, TDRA commercial-messaging requirements and DoH Abu Dhabi standards.
- Working knowledge of the Abu Dhabi Healthcare Information and Cyber Security Standard (ADHICS) v2 is an advantage.
- Fluency in healthcare terminology and patient-journey concepts, with sensitivity to patient privacy and appropriate tone.
- Strong strategic-planning, orchestration and project-management skills; able to build a business case, map required resources and deliver against quantitative benchmarks.
- Excellent communication, presentation and stakeholder-management skills; able to communicate and defend a strategy with senior leaders.
- Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making.
- Self-starter, able to build a new function and work with minimal supervision in a demanding environment.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and dashboarding/reporting tools.
- Ability to speak and write in English is required; Arabic is an advantage.