Digital Innovation Manager

Join us in shaping the future of digital partnerships and commercial innovation!

Do you thrive on identifying new business opportunities and creating innovative digital solutions that drive growth? Are you motivated by the opportunity to build strategic partnerships with private healthcare providers, e-commerce platforms, and corporate organisations? Do you enjoy connecting digital innovation with real-world impact?

If so, this is your chance to join Novo Nordisk as our new Digital Innovation Manager, where your strategic mindset and business acumen will help expand our digital footprint across the Slovak healthcare ecosystem.
Apply today and become part of a life-changing journey in Novo Nordisk Slovakia, Bratislava!

Your new role

As our Digital Innovation Manager, you will play a central role in identifying, evaluating, and driving new business opportunities that support sustainable commercial growth. You will work cross-functionally with Marketing, Commercial, Market Access, Public Affairs, Medical, and field KAMs to unlock opportunities within private clinics, insurers, employers, and digital platforms.
You will be a key driver in building meaningful, value-added partnerships and in accelerating innovation through digital solutions, new engagement models, and commercial collaborations.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Identify and pursue new business opportunities, including outreach to private hospitals, private insurance funds, large employers, and other key ecosystem partners.
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with e-commerce platforms and other digital collaborators. Develop and implement business growth strategies that strengthen our commercial presence.
• Develop and maintain private clinic engagement strategies, coordinating closely with field KAM teams to ensure alignment and execution. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support digital marketing and commercial innovation projects and ensure seamless execution.
• Conduct market research, analyse consumer trends, and explore potential industries to uncover commercial growth opportunities.
• Build and maintain a robust pipeline of prospective clients and business partners. Lead negotiations and secure agreements that expand Novo Nordisk’s reach and impact in Slovakia.

Your new department

You will join a dynamic and collaborative commercial organisation dedicated to expanding our digital capabilities and strengthening engagement across the Slovak market. As part of a global company, you will collaborate closely with regional teams, affiliates, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver impactful initiatives that support long-term strategic priorities.
Every day, we are driven by a shared purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases by advancing innovative, sustainable, and digitally enabled commercial solutions.

Your skills & qualifications

To succeed in this role, you bring:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree
• Full professional proficiency in English and Slovak is essential.
• 2–3 years of experience in business development, digital innovation, marketing, or commercial roles.
• Experience in campaigns or FMCG/OTC product activation.
• Proven track record in media planning, digital content execution, and cross-channel activation campaigns.
• Experience working with or managing pharmacies, including pharmacy engagement strategies or pharmacy-driven activations.
• Experience coordinating consumer-facing digital solutions (apps, websites, platforms) with a strong focus on user acquisition and retention.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams, especially with Marketing, Medical, Market Access, and Public Affairs.
• Experience in patient journey mapping, chronic disease management (obesity, diabetes), or healthcare ecosystem navigation is considered a plus.

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

Apply by 15th of December 

More information

If you want to learn more about what it’s like to work at Novo Nordisk, please visit:
www.novonordisk.com/careers
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your CV. Please refrain from adding a photo to ensure a fair and inclusive recruitment process.
Novo Nordisk is currently updating job titles globally. The advertised job title may be subject to alignment during the recruitment process.

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.