Field Incentives & Operations Excellence Jr Manager

Novartis AG; Santo Amaro; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Novartis in São Paulo, Brazil, seeks a Sales Force Effectiveness partner to design and implement incentive, quota, and performance deliverables, aligning with CRM, analytics, and market access teams.

You will lead the end-to-end incentives process, automate validation and data quality controls, and develop dashboards, while coordinating with Sales, Finance, IT, and external vendors for scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Must have relevant education and experience in incentive compensation, commercial operations, or sales force effectiveness.
• Strong process improvement and automation mindset; able to redesign workflows and translate requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to manage complex operational processes, challenge inefficiencies, take ownership and build credibility with field teams.

Responsibilities

• Own accurate, compliant incentive operations including quota setting, calculation, validation, payout governance, and performance measurement.
• Lead automation and data engineering efforts to deliver integrations, workflows, and scalable solutions.
• Track operational, data quality, adoption, trust, and compliance metrics; partner with cross-functional teams to resolve issues.

Skills

Language: English

Language: Portuguese

Automation mindset

Stakeholder management

Education

Incentive compensation or related field

Tools

SQL

Snowflake

Power BI

Data modeling

Data quality frameworks

Python

ETL pipelines

Workflow platforms

Process orchestration

API integrations

Job description

Job Description Summary

#LI-Hybrid

Act as a Sales Force Effectiveness business partner to sales leaders by designing and implementing sales force effectiveness deliverables, including product access and sales performance measurement, segmentation and targeting, account planning, incentive calculation, CRM management, and market analytics. Contribute to the roadmap for future sales effectiveness and efficiency, and track relevant KPIs and sales performance in a standardized and compliant manner.

This role is based in São Paulo, Brazil. Novartis is unable to offer relocation support for this role: please only apply if this location is accessible for you.

Job Description

Key responsibilities

• Own accurate, compliant, and timely incentive operations, including quota setting, calculation, validation, payout governance, and sales performance measurement.
• Transform the end-to-end incentives process through automation, systems integration, workflow redesign, and scalable controls that minimize manual intervention.
• Implement automated validation, data quality controls, and root-cause analysis to reduce errors, reprocessing, payroll adjustments, and operational risk.
• Establish clear governance, ownership, escalation paths, audit controls, and a trusted source of truth for incentive performance.
• Deliver consistent and transparent quota and payout communications, translating complex technical topics into clear guidance for field teams and leaders.
• Launch dashboards and self-service tools that improve visibility, adoption, and confidence in incentive information.
• Create and execute a structured field education and change plan covering incentive rules, quotas, payout calculations, processes, and FAQs.
• Partner with Sales, Field Excellence, Finance, P&O, Commercial Operations, Data & Analytics, IT, CRM, and external vendors to resolve issues and improve service.
• Lead and develop the dedicated automation and data engineering resource, ensuring delivery of integrations, workflows, and scalable solutions.
• Track operational, data quality, adoption, trust, business, audit, and compliance metrics, acting proactively to prevent issues and support future growth.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant education and experience in incentive compensation, commercial operations, or sales force effectiveness; experience with quota management, payout governance, and sales performance measurement is required.
• Strong process improvement and automation mindset, with the ability to redesign workflows and translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Ability to manage complex operational processes, challenge inefficiencies, take ownership, and build credibility with field teams.
• Pharmaceutical industry, CRM, omnichannel, IQVIA, Veeva CRM, customer master data, financial controls, compliance, risk management, advanced analytics, AI automation, or global incentive program experience is an advantage.
• Fluent in English and Portuguese

Desirable Requirements:

• Experience with data and analytics tools such as SQL, Snowflake, Power BI, data modeling, and data quality frameworks is strongly preferred.Experience with automation technologies such as Python, ETL pipelines, workflow platforms, process orchestration, and API integrations is strongly preferred.

Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Skills Desired

Business Dashboards, Capacity Planning, Customer Service, Data Extraction, Data Quality, Merchandising, Performance Measurement