Manager, Head of Education

Are you passionate about delivering high-quality education to healthcare professionals? Do you want to lead our Flagship Education Program? If so, we are looking for an experienced leader to head up our Education team. This is a great opportunity to join our team and make a difference in the lives of people living with chronic diseases. Read on and apply today!

Your new role

As Head of Education, you will lead our education team to design and deliver programs that not only advance clinical knowledge but also drive commercial growth. Your strategic initiatives will expand our reach, strengthen customer relationships, and contribute directly to Novo Nordisk Denmark’s business objectives.

In this exciting role you will lead a team of 7 passionate and highly skilled individuals who deliver high-quality nationwide education to healthcare professionals working with obesity, diabetes, and other serious chronic diseases. Our Education Program is among the largest in the Nordics within diabetes and obesity. We educate through various channels such as face-to-face events, webinars, on-demand digital content, local sales-force education meetings, podcasts, congresses, and conferences.

It is a strategic driver for Novo Nordisk Denmark and a key enabler of our overall ambition to support patients and healthcare professionals. Success in this role requires strong cross-functional leadership, aligning Sales, Medical Affairs, Market Access and Compliance.

In addition, you will:

• Shape and effect the national education strategy by leading design, conceptualization, planning and executing education programmes
• Directly contribute to commercial growth be leading key customer engagement initiatives within educational activities, driving customer engagement and loyalty as well as disease and treatment awareness
• Drive partnerships and ensure alignment with external stakeholders, including KOLs, primary care providers, private healthcare providers and scientific associations, to widen scope and reach
• Use internal and external resources, including budget, effectively, establishing collaborations with third-party vendors and exploring new partnerships to enhance healthcare education offerings

• Drive change in customer engagement by leading innovative and high-impact education initiatives, educational content creation, leading social media campaigns, drive change management within go-to-market and role-modelling multichannel engagement.
• Use data strategically to expand and strengthen customer engagement.

Your new department

The Education team is part of the Customer Engagement & Commercial Innovation Department. Our goal is to optimize and innovate our commercial activities, always with the customer and patient at the centre. The team will be tasked with modernizing our commercial model, identifying, developing and managing commercial partnerships and go-to-market activities based on data and insights to support people living with chronic disease.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who has a background in healthcare, education, or a related field combined with proven experience in delivering education to healthcare professionals and managing educational programmes within pharmaceutical or healthcare industry.

Furthermore, you have:

• Strong project management skills, commercial understanding and the ability to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
• Good understanding of the Danish Healthcare system and the people who work there
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and strong ability to work and lead cross-functionally
• Strategic thinking and data-driven decision-making capabilities
• Knowledge of multichannel engagement strategies
• Familiarity with scientific associations or public and private primary care providers.
• Fluency English and Danish, both written and spoken is essential

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk Denmark is responsible for the commercial, medical and market access initiatives in Denmark and clinical initiatives across Europe. We are more than 160 employees working every day to Drive Change for people living with chronic diseases. We are an engaged and driven organization with a clear sense of purpose.

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.

More information

If you believe you are qualified, and cannot wait to take on the challenge, please upload your CV directly via our online application tool. Please include your motivation in the CV, as there is no need for a separate motivational letter.

Deadline

December 17, 2025. (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

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.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re 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.