Director Commercial Execution Excellence

Be at the heart of innovation, where your ideas drive performance, inspire teams, and deliver measurable success!

Your new role

In this pivotal role, you’ll be at the forefront of shaping Novo Nordisk’s commercial execution excellence — driving strategic initiatives, unlocking market potential, and ensuring our teams across international operations deliver at their best. You’ll combine sharp market insight with cross-functional leadership, to support key markets in their growth, while fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing across regions.

In this role, you will:

• Plan and lead targeted market visits to identify new levers for GLP-1 growth.
• Consolidate, distil, and share actionable best practices to enhance cross-regional and cross-functional execution.
• Facilitate follow-ups and measure the outcomes of commercial initiatives post-implementation.
• Co-own and advance our global commercial execution excellence program, ensuring alignment across functions and markets.
• Support the commercial execution excellence team across all areas, including sales effectiveness.
• Promote a strong team spirit and foster knowledge sharing across the organisation.

Your new department

As a key driver of Novo Nordisk’s future growth, International Operations (IO) is the largest operational unit in Novo Nordisk and covers more than 190 countries and 95% of the world’s population. Around 430 million people are living with diabetes in these countries and an estimated 570 million live with obesity. We serve 25 million people each day living with chronic diseases. Novo Nordisk International Operations, Strategic Operations, is head quartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

Commercial Execution Excellence is anchored in the Cardiometabolic Marketing team and works closely with the regions and key IO markets to drive the growth of the GLP-1 portfolio.

At Novo Nordisk, we aim to hire the best talent and support their development by acting as a Talent Incubator. To ensure the development of our high potential talents at Novo Nordisk, the IO-SO Office in Zurich serves as a Talent Hub which offers employees the opportunity to gain exposure to and experience in the strategic office and establish their international network, before moving on to positions in global, the regions and markets where they can share their expertise and make space for future talents to have an opportunity to experience rotations.

For a position like this, international mobility within a time horizon of three years is a requirement.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for a strategic, commercially savvy leader with a strong track record of driving impact in complex, cross-functional environments. You’ll combine deep market insight with data-driven decision-making and the ability to inspire alignment across stakeholders to deliver measurable results.

What you will bring:

• Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration, or related field.
• 10+ years’ experience across Marketing, Sales, or Commercial Effectiveness, with proven strategic impact.
• Strong commercial acumen and expertise in go-to-market strategies and resource allocation. Hands-on tactical experience in a market or region of advantage
• Exceptional stakeholder management, leadership, and cross-functional project delivery skills.
• Advanced analytical abilities to translate market and competitor data into actionable strategies.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

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What We Offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

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If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your motivation letter, CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool.

Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by Oct 28th, 2025.

Please note that we are reviewing applications on ongoing basis, therefore the position will be filled as soon as the successful candidate has been found. Internal candidates are kindly requested to inform their line manager before applying.

Disclaimer

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

Novo Nordisk is not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on

solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.