Associate Manager, Field Planning & Execution (Remote)

The Manager, Field Planning & Execution is a senior individual contributor responsible for running the day-to-day operating cadence for integrated field planning and assigned commercial pilots across U.S. Field and Inside Sales. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Field Innovation & Pilot Execution, this role translates approved priorities into executable plans, coordinates cross functional workstreams, maintains roadmap and governance discipline, and turns field and performance insights into practical recommendations.

Core Responsibilities

Integrated Field Planning and Roadmap Management

• Manage intake for field-facing commercial initiatives: clarify incoming requests, assess field effort and customer impact, and size and sequence work for cross-functional decision.
• Facilitate recurring planning forums and publish concise decisions, actions, owners, and next steps.
• Maintain the roadmap of record, including timing, reach, dependencies, sustainment needs, and change impact, and coordinate with initiative owners to keep status current.
• Prepare analysis for planning discussions, including capacity risks and sequencing considerations.
• Contribute to prioritization criteria, effort scoring, and intake tools that keep planning decisions consistent and transparent for requesting teams.

Field Pilot Coordination and Execution

• Coordinate the field side of innovation pilots from launch planning through closeout, including participant and territory selection, onboarding, field communication, and cadence management.
• Confirm roles, responsibilities, dependencies, and success measures with cross-functional owners before a pilot goes live.
• Surface execution barriers early and recommend solutions that protect customer experience, field capacity, and measurement quality.
• Keep pilot teams aligned on timelines, decisions, and open questions as scope evolves.

Field Insight and Advisory Input

• Coordinate with sales leadership and field sales teams to gather structured input on initiatives, pilots, and field-facing programs.
• Support field advisory forums, surveys, and other feedback channels, ensuring requests have clear objectives and are routed through the appropriate channel.
• Synthesize qualitative field feedback into concise themes, implications, and recommendations.
• Connect field learning to planning decisions, pilot design, operational improvements, and future commercial initiatives.

Measurement, Reporting and Recommendations

• Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalize measures, data requirements, reporting cadences, and qualitative feedback plans.
• Monitor progress against approved measures and surface data-quality, workflow, or role-overlap issues that could affect interpretation.
• Synthesize results, field feedback, customer experience, and commercial outcomes into clear recommendations to scale, adapt, combine, or stop an approach.
• Build readouts and decision materials for cross-functional partners and leadership.

Cross-Functional Ways of Working

• Lead day-to-day coordination across Field Marketing, HCP Marketing, Consumer Marketing, Sales Leadership, Training & Clinical Business, Global Sales & Clinical Training, Medical, Data Science and Insights, Sales Effectiveness, and Sales Operations teams.
• Establish repeatable ways of working built on common definitions, timelines, measures, and governance standards.
• Clarify ownership, decision points, handoffs, and escalation paths for shared work, and escalate unresolved risks or ownership gaps.
• Identify opportunities to simplify work, reduce duplication, and protect customer-facing field time.