Global medical advisor

Department: Global Medical Affairs, Bangalore – (Regions & Operations)

The Position

The position holder will assist closely in providing strategic and medical guidance covering portfolio of products and functionally be a part of Medical affairs team. He/she will execute on the below deliverables demonstrating Subject Matter Expert status:

• PDP process - Actively playing the role of PDP Secretary, Driving the PDP process at regional level
• Generation, Interpretation & Communication of scientific data to ensure proper usages of NN products
• Clinical importance of new findings and impact in future and current treatment of diabetes, obesity, rare diseases & OSCD
• Deliver timely accurate and credible scientific medical guidance across medical affairs focus areas towards internal and external stakeholders

Management

• The management aspect of this job is to ensure effective collaboration between medical affairs teams
• Acts as a liaison between Novo Nordisk and Key Opinion Leaders
• Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, according to the Novo Nordisk Way
• Is the global specialist on a specific product/project towards internal/external customers
• Ensures coordination, within team, of content development and related tasks in relation to meetings/events initiated by Medical & scientific affairs team. 
• Supports manager in recruiting and onboarding new colleagues. Broad exposure to all areas and close interactions to higher organizational levels
• Broad impact through developing/planning of guidance and scientific material development used in areas of the business towards advancing our products.
• Be go-to person for colleagues for scientific questions

PDP

• Circulate PDP & specific questions to PDP Forum & relevant BA/Affiliates*
• Coordinate and schedule the meetings (WG, Affiliates and Forum)
• Consolidated input & identification of discussion points

Communication

• Transforming clinical trial data into scientific and commercial communication, used to scope/plan the support of our products and provide early market access
• Communication to broad range of stakeholders: Patients, Primary and Secondary Health Care Professional, high level global Key Opinion Leaders, Advisory Boards and Scientific Experts

KOL & Association Engagement

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with Global Key Opinion Leaders
• Provide input, develop, and execute on global Health Care Professional strategy
• Plan, conduct and execute meetings plus support speakers in preparation for presentation of NN data at conferences and symposia
• Design and contribute to and execute on Health Care Professional strategy
• Proactively plan and engage in scientific dialogue and relationships with global Key Opinion Leaders
• Expand and develop new relationships to relevant upcoming Key Opinion Leaders to allow the company to benefit from different viewpoints
• Gather and analyze medical and scientific feedback, from global Key Opinion Leader interactions in advisory boards and conversations at meetings and conferences
• Drive the development and execution of scientific story line, content and topics of global advisory boards and ensure that necessary feedback loops within the organization are established to operationalize insights
• Develop, drive, and execute on scientific communication during high quality global meetings (e.g., scientific expert meetings, symposia etc.)

Medical Guidance

• Take responsibility for developing a broad range of medical guidance documents and the needed digital solutions (e.g., e-learnings) to be used by affiliates
• Drive alignment of relevant cross-functional business activities on specific product/project
• Provide medical affairs support to legal issues that arise from competitor complaints or other associated channels
• Medical/scientific support to Public Affairs and/or Market Access in negotiations with payers/policy makers for specific product/project
• Extract insight from evidence and external input and transfer it into new medical claims
• Execute training to support key markets/regions/affiliates. Conduct live training at global training events
• Sufficient portfolio insights and business understanding to give input to e.g., Marketing and Market Access strategies
• Involved in providing Medical education with medical guidance to external audience too.

Communication and Stakeholder interaction:

Key Internal and External Stakeholders:

• Medical Affairs in International Operations, Regions & Affiliates
• Global Medical Affairs HQ
• Field Medical Force
• Marketing
• Global Development
• Public Affairs
• Regulatory and Quality
• Global Safety

Qualifications

• M.D. with substantial clinical and/or research expertise in relevant area (e.g. Endocrinology, Cardiology, General Practice or Internal Medicine)
• Strong clinical and/or research background in area of diabetes mellitus with interest in advanced scientific analysis and communication and experience in drug development
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. Fluency in both spoken and written English
• Demonstrated research experience (e.g. publications)
• At least 2 years of clinical and/or pharmaceutical industry experience
• Experience with clinical medicine, clinical research and development

About the department

Global Medical Affairs, Bangalore is an extension of the Global Medical Affairs, headquartered in Denmark (HQ), and is part of Global Business Services (GBS), Bangalore, India. The team consists of highly motivated global scientific advisors (medical writers), project managers, graphic designers and publication managers working together with the Global Medical Affairs department in Søborg, Denmark and Medical Affairs departments across various regions and affiliates of the company. Our core competencies include communicating scientific and medical knowledge on our products to the external scientific community and across the organisation, in-house content development, project management and publication planning for external medical events.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

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Deadline

5th March 2025

Disclaimer

It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment process.

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.