Alcon

Customer Operations Manager

Alcon • $125K — $173K *
Pharmaceuticals & Biotech
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Relevant education and experience in customer operations or service delivery in regulated environments.
  • Customer-centric mindset with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Excellence in independent execution of end-to-end operational activities.
  • Ability to navigate complex, regulated environments effectively.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills across various departments.
  • Quick learning agility and strategic thinking to align with evolving business needs.
  • Strong problem-solving and risk management skills, prioritizing issues effectively.
  • Solid project management and analytical skills to drive process improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main contact for healthcare institutions regarding the RLT portfolio.
  • Oversee RLT customer operations from order management to delivery.
  • Coordinate with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality for product reliability.
  • Collaborate with Marketing, Medical, and Field Teams for therapy adoption.
  • Work closely with Accounting and Finance for accurate invoicing and financial issues.
  • Monitor operational performance against service expectations.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate operational risks, ensuring clear communication.
  • Leverage customer insights and analytics to enhance operational excellence.

Benefits

  • Flexible and hybrid working options where possible.
  • Minimum 14 weeks of paid parental leave.
  • Access to competitive insurance and retirement plans.
  • Support for personal wellbeing resources.
  • Global recognition programs for employees.
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary

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Location: Toronto, Canada

The Customer Operations Manager serves as the primary operational contact for healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals across the Radioligand Therapy (RLT) portfolio. The role oversees the end-to-end customer operations journey, including orders, delivery, invoicing, customer communication, reporting, and issue resolution. Working across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Medical, Regulatory, Marketing, Field Teams, Accounting, and Finance, this position enables therapy adoption, operational excellence, and a consistently high-quality customer experience. The role also uses performance insights to anticipate risks, improve processes, and support ethical, patient-first decisions in a highly regulated and evolving environment.

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

Job Description

Key responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary point of contact for healthcare institutions and healthcare professionals at authorized treatment centers, delivering responsive, customer-focused support across the RLT portfolio.
  • Oversee end-to-end RLT customer operations, including order management, delivery coordination, invoicing, customer communications, and month-end reporting and analysis.
  • Coordinate closely with Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Quality to support reliable product availability, delivery execution, and compliant operational processes.
  • Partner with Medical, Regulatory, Marketing, and Field Teams to enable therapy adoption and ensure customer needs are addressed through aligned cross-functional action.
  • Collaborate with Accounting and Finance to support accurate invoicing, reconciliations, month-end activities, and resolution of customer-related financial issues.
  • Monitor operational performance against service expectations, including on-time delivery, unused-dose management, issue-resolution timelines, and customer satisfaction.
  • Identify and proactively mitigate operational risks, escalating issues appropriately and maintaining clear communication with customers and internal stakeholders.
  • Use performance analytics and customer insights to lead continuous improvement initiatives, enhance the customer journey, and strengthen operational excellence.
  • Apply sound judgment, ownership, and accountability in a highly regulated, ambiguous, and complex environment while ensuring ethical and patient-first decision-making.

Essential Requirements

  • Relevant education and professional experience supporting customer operations, service delivery, or comparable functions in a regulated environment.
  • Strong customer-centric mindset, service orientation, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Demonstrated excellence in execution, with the ability to manage end-to-end operational activities accurately, independently, and with a high degree of accountability.
  • Proven ability to operate effectively in new, highly regulated, ambiguous, and complex environments.
  • Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to align stakeholders across operational, commercial, medical, quality, regulatory, and finance functions.
  • Strong learning agility and strategic thinking, with the ability to quickly understand evolving business needs and translate them into practical actions.
  • Excellent problem-solving and risk-management capabilities, including the ability to prioritize issues and drive timely resolution.
  • Solid project-management and analytical skills, with the ability to use performance insights to improve processes and customer outcomes.
  • Bilingual (English & French).

Desirable Requirements:

  • Digital & tech savvy (Supply Chain and/or customer service)
  • Experience in support of highly specialized therapies and/or hospitalbased care models is strongly preferred.

Rewards

At Novartis, we99re committed to reimagining medicine together - and rewarding the people who make it happen.


Expected Remuneration Range for role:


  • CAD 125,120 - 173,696

The base salary offered is determined based on gender-neutral objectives, such as relevant skills, competencies and experience in accordance with the Novartis pay setting policy and upon joining Novartis will be reviewed periodically.

The rewards of being part of our team go far beyond base pay and incentives.We also offer a variety of competitive benefits in kind to help you thrive personally and professionally, such as insurance plans, retirement plans, wellbeing resources and global recognition programs. In addition, we provide flexible and hybrid working options, where possible, and minimum 14 weeks paid parental leave.

Pay equity is a fundamental principle of our employment policy and reflects our commitment to create a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment that treats all employees with dignity and respect, as outlined in our Code of Ethics.

Read our brochure to learn more about our global total rewards offering: https://www.novartis.com/sites/novartis_com/files/novartis-life-handbook.pdf


Note: Benefits and compensation may vary by country and are subject to local legal requirements. A full overview of your compensation package applicable to your role based on your employment location and Novartis employer entity, will be communicated separately to you during the application process.

Skills Desired

Analytical Thinking, Brand Awareness, Business Analytics, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Digital Marketing, Media Campaigns, Project Management, Project Planning, Sales, Stakeholder Engagement, Stakeholder Management, Waterfall Model

About Alcon

Alcon is a global medical company specializing in eye care products and services. The company's products include surgical equipment, contact lenses, and eye drops. Alcon was founded in 1945 and is headquartered in Baar, Switzerland. The company operates in over 70 countries and has over 20,000 employees. In 2019, Alcon became an independent publicly traded company after being spun off from Novartis.
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24,389 employees
Market Cap
$33.3 billion
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Founded
1945
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