Senior Product Manager

Are you a dedicated marketing professional who is looking for a life-changing career? Are you highly motivated by being able to make a difference to improving patients’ lives? Are you a high performing executive who energized by challenges and able to energize people around you? Then, this is your moment, we have an impressive opportunity as Senior Product Manager for diabetes. This position is based in Istanbul, Türkiye, and directly reports to Senior Director, Diabetes Business Unit in Novo Nordisk Türkiye.

The position

As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for developing, implementing and monitoring local marketing strategies and tactics, to achieve both short and long term financial and business objectives of the product(s). You will build up portfolio and product marketing strategy, preparing and executing product marketing plan for short, mid and long term, managing product marketing budget, preparing future product launches according to commercial and financial goals. Besides you will be analysing and reporting continuous intelligence on the product’s performance, customer insights, potential negative issues and opportunities and provide regular market updates including competitor analysis, assessment of market trends, forecasts, identify risks and opportunities and propose corrections

Your responsibilities will include:

• Prepare product messages and communication materials and evaluate the success of promotional communication, prepare symposia and panel programs, and execute congress participation plan for the product.
• Developing and maintaining relationships with target customers by building systematic and strategic corporation
• Secure alignment and coordination between other business units in terms of strategy alignment and joint tactics.
• Evaluate sales forecasts and provide product input (sales, manufacturing, sample) for the forecast process, provide continuous product training for product promotion specialists and newcomers.

Qualifications

You are an experienced marketing professional and have at least 5 years of proven experience in pharmaceutical marketing, sales, product management area. You hold bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree in relevant subject, preferably Business Administration, Economics or Engineering and have excellent command over both written and spoken English and Turkish. Further sought after skills are

• Proven success in adapting global brand and portfolio strategies to local context, marketing campaigns, roll-out and portfolio management by setting strategy and tactics with operational excellence
• Strong business drive with customer centricity, business acumen and commercial mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities and effective time management skills, making things happen mindset
• Excellent analytical capability and an ability to synthesize insights, create focus, and eagerness to learn influence the organization to move forward

As a person you able to promote a patient-centric strategy, ensure targeted effective planning and execution, lead business planning, forecasting and related processes, generate competitor insights and identify opportunities for growth and value creation.

About the department

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over ,64000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries.

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. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 64,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

To submit your application, please upload your CV and motivational letter online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). Internal candidates are kindly requested to inform their line Manager before applying.

Deadline

22 May 2025

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.