Senior Manager, Diabetes Commercial

Medical Marketing & Regulatory

Copenhagen, Denmark

Ready to shape the future of diabetes care on a global stage? As Senior Manager for Diabetes Commercial, you’ll turn bold ideas into impactful strategies, driving brand growth, innovation, and visibility across international markets. This is your chance to lead high-impact initiatives that influence business results — and fast-track your path toward global leadership.

Your new role

As Senior Manager for Diabetes Commercial, you will drive the commercial success of our products and services on an international scale. In this pivotal role, you will develop and implement marketing strategies, lead high-impact promotional initiatives, and analyse market dynamics to ensure our brands achieve their full potential. Working cross-functionally, you will shape marketing activities that resonate with target audiences and deliver strong business results.

Key responsibilities include:

• Support development and implementation of commercial strategies to achieve growth objectives for assigned products and services.
• Monitor market trends, consumer insights, and competitor activity to identify opportunities and inform decision-making.
• Design and execute advertising and promotional campaigns, and lead creation of international promotional materials to enhance brand visibility and ensure regional alignment.
• Analyse sales performance and refine marketing strategies to drive revenue growth and improved results.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and provide actionable insights and performance reports to senior leadership to support seamless execution and strategic planning.

This role offers the chance to shape portfolio growth and positioning in a fast-paced environment. You will help define strategy, drive innovation and deliver measurable results, while building experience for future career growth in a global organisation.

Although the role has no direct people management, it provides high visibility across the company and is an excellent stepping stone to leadership roles within our global marketing structure.

Your new department

You will be part of the Medical, Marketing & Regulatory team at Novo Nordisk in International Operations. This department plays a critical role in driving innovative marketing strategies and ensuring seamless collaboration across teams. The position is based in Copenhagen, where you will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Our team is dedicated to fostering cohesive strategies and bridging efforts between International Operations and Strategic Operations to drive unified outcomes. Together, we strive to make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients worldwide.

As part of International Operations, you will join our largest operational unit. Covering 194 countries and 95% of the world’s population, more than 18,000 of us work passionately to serve 35 million patients each day. With a promise to outperform the competition, we continue the growth driver for Novo Nordisk, and to improve health at scale across the globe.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Manager, Diabetes Commercial, who can analyse market trends, consumer behaviour and competitor activity to spot opportunities and build long-term strategies that support Novo Nordisk’s goals. You take a meticulous, data-driven approach to monitoring sales, market performance and campaign results to ensure marketing is optimised for success.
To succeed in this role, you:

• Hold an academic degree in Marketing, Business Administration or similar
• Have at least 5 years’ experience primarily in brand marketing, or related field. To have pharmaceutical and diabetes experience is an advantage
• Have proven expertise in market analysis, product development, and campaign management, ideally feeling comfortable with developing business cases
• Possess strong skills in monitoring, analysing, and evaluating market data to uncover actionable insights, ensuring that marketing efforts are data-driven and impactful
• Are fully proficient in English, both written and spoken
  
  

You are a strong communicator who can present insights, influence stakeholders and drive decisions. You are collaborative and able to work across departments to implement product changes and ensure alignment, while also able to work independently and take ownership. Finally, you are customer-focused and use feedback to improve products and enhance satisfaction.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

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.

Deadline
Jan 25th, 2026. (Don't wait for deadline to submit! We are recruiting at the speed of light!)

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.