Organon

From large pharma to compassionate women’s health care brand

Client Overview

Organon is a global health care company created uniquely for women with a mission to deliver impactful medicines and solutions that enable healthier lifestyles.  The company was founded in 2020 as a spinoff of Merck (known as MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada).

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The Challenge

How can a traditional pharma connect with women in an empathetic way?

To effectively launch their company, Organon needed a corporate website to anchor a new brand and communicate a pioneering vision for women’s health care. Although built on Merck’s deep legacy and brand equity, Organon had to differentiate with a unique brand expression that speaks to women’s health care in a real and genuine way.

The Vision
Rethink and reposition a corporate phrama organization into a compassionate woman's health care brand
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The Strategy

Educate, inspire, and empower women to take charge of their health.

Organon is much more than just a pharma company created for women. It’s a passionate philosophy and call-to-action advocating for women’s health and the greater good. While the website needed to communicate tactical messaging like benefits, products, and general information, it also needed to inspire, educate, and convey a greater emotional brand story. We strived to make Organon.com a primary destination to explore topics about women’s health while positioning the brand as the first major player in the women’s health care space.

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A subsequent content strategy informed Vertic and Optimizely of what pieces of content should be updated, what pieces could be discarded, what pieces were missing. This data-driven process of digital insights enabled Vertic to speed up time-to-market by making clearly defined recommendations for the website rather than leave decisions to the emotional assumptions of stakeholders.

Given the increasing recognition from third-party analysts such as Gartner, Forrester and IDC on the combined company's technology offering, Vertic and Optimizely decided that the website should showcase what the product could do.

A process of agile scoping in batches was then performed to understand the roll-out of the website. With a promise to the market that the combined companies would be wholly and solely operating under the Optimizely brand alone by August 2021, Vertic had a six-month window following the strategy with which to launch.

The Solution

Champion women’s health care. Put women at the center of the experience.

The new website is the center of Organon’s brand and an impassioned manifesto for women’s health. Leveraging strategic insights and audience content needs (and their journeys), the UX, visual design, and copy work together to convey a unique brand expression that advocates for women’s health care and empowers women to live healthier lives. Acting as the spine of the brand, the new website establishes a digital footprint for awareness and consideration. It crafts a highly relevant, engaging, and compelling experience featuring content and related products regarding women’s health issues.

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Making a meaningful user journey

Using insights and data, the UX and content strategy puts women at the center of the digital experience and ensures a meaningful and intuitive customer journey. Users can easily find resources and information that inspire, educate, and enable change.

A woman browsing the Organon blog page on her laptop. The blog page contains various stories and the overarching title We share women's stories to amplify her voice and inspire change.

Increasing Efficiencies. Ensuring excellence. Scaling for the future.

By leveraging and adapting the design system from parent company Merck (also designed by Vertic), we enabled Organon to move faster to market. The comprehensive library of modules and components empowers the design team to respond quickly to change and scale for the future. We also delivered a detailed style guide to ensure a clear and consistent brand expression across the digital experience.

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Elevating the visual brand story

Vertic also created custom illustrations to reinforce the brand story and set a therapeutic, supportive, and inclusive tone. These bold, colorful illustrations have been adopted as an integral part of the overall brand and leveraged across offline and online channels

Colorful creative illustrations of women to reinforce Organon's brand story.
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The future of women’s health care is now
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The new Organon.com elevates a corporate pharma company into a powerful platform and resource dedicated to the well-being of women, their families, and the communities they live in.

A screenshot of the Organon website.A screenshot of the Organon website.

Making a difference in the future of women’s health care

The new Organon.com elevates a large pharma company into a powerful platform and resource dedicated to the well-being of women, their families, and the communities they live in.

Recognition

Awards the site has earned along the way

Award
Category
2020
ACE AWARDS
Brand Website
2020
DRUMB2B Brave Awards
Best Use of Data & Technology in a Website
2020
Internationalist Award
Innovative Digital Marketing
2020
Webby Award
Best Navigation Structure
Year
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