Commercial Manager

Your New Role

As Commercial Manager, you will play a key role in identifying opportunities and turning consumer insights into activation strategies, delivering on business- and category growth in obesity and diabetes. You will identify, develop and establish the activation roadmap across cohorts, touchpoints, campaigns, channels and drive collaborations/partnerships with relevant external stakeholders by negotiating and co-creating market-fit solutions that deliver best-in-class experiences.  

You will also be responsible to: 

• Shape market activation strategy with optimized tactical and channel orchestration to deliver on ROI  

• Translate consumer and market insights into targeted segmentation, creative briefs, channel plans, and measurable activation tactics 

• Manage operational execution of engagements by establishing and executing on governance structure, implementation plans, KPI definition and build performance analysis and monitoring frameworks 

• Identify and evaluate new strategic opportunities by assessing market trends and market development to lead commercial collaboration partnerships  

• Collaborate and build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, to develop, realize and implement tactical plans  

• Represent the commercial business development and consumer activation unit, providing subject matter expertise and influencing decisions  

• Develop frameworks and processes to foster innovation and operational excellence within commercial operations 

Your New Department

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more 100 years of innovation and leadership in chronic care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities to help people living with diabetes, obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. We’re a dynamic company in a dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future.  

In the Business Development, Partnership and Healthcare Consumer Marketing Department we focus on exactly that – the future – our ecosystem integration and category growth with an ambitious team of professionals with strong business acumen, effective collaboration and innovative thinking. You will directly report to the Director of the unit. 

Your Skills & Qualifications 

You hold a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering or Marketing – while an advanced degree (e.g. MBA) is preferred.  

You come with minimum 7-8 years of relevant experience in omnichannel campaign execution and measurement, end-to-end user journeys and execution along with managing strategic partnerships/alliance management in the consumer health and/or FMCG sector.  

Moreover, you have:   

• Skills in AI, search programmatic, paid social, content marketing with execution experience of campaigns 

• MarTech proficiency, understanding attribution models, conversion funnels, and ability to build dashboards to make date-driven recommendations  

• Demonstrated success in managing strategic partnerships  

• A strong understanding of the healthcare landscape on-and offline 

• Strong financial acumen with expertise in developing revenue models, business cases 

• Strategic and critical thinking with strong analytical skills and a solution-driven mindset with the ability to form insights from multiple sources of data 

• Knowledge and agility to explore broader ecosystems involving data, digital and emerging technologies 

• A high degree of independence, seeking guidance only on complex issues 

• Managed external stakeholders and are able to select, run and holds agencies and other suppliers accountable for delivery 

• Proven leadership and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence management and cross-functional teams to drive strategic initiatives and deliver results 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.