Innovative Channels Manager (Business Development)

Are you ready to shape the future of healthcare by building partnerships across the rapidly evolving digital health ecosystem? As our Innovative Channels Manager, you will play a pivotal role in accelerating access to healthcare solutions through e-pharmacies, telemedicine providers, digital insurers, and emerging healthcare platforms. This is a unique opportunity to combine commercial excellence, digital innovation, and strategic partnership management to create meaningful impact for patients while driving business growth.

Your new role

You will lead the development and execution of our commercial strategy in online channels.  You will work at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and commerce, identifying new growth opportunities and building partnerships that strengthen customer relationships and enhance the patient experience.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and evaluating strategic partnerships with e-health platforms, online pharmacies, telemedicine providers, and hybrid retail-digital healthcare organisations.
• Negotiating commercial agreements, and innovative collaboration models that drive mutual value and sustainable growth.
• Enhancing visibility and performance across digital channels through close collaboration with marketing and patient engagement teams, leveraging e-commerce best practices and trade marketing initiatives.
• Activating partnership execution plans to deliver patient flow, referrals, and measurable volume outcomes
• Integrating patient support programmes, loyalty initiatives, and digital engagement solutions into partner ecosystems to create seamless patient journeys.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to ensure compliant digital operations, effective technology integration, robust data exchange processes, and high-quality consumer/patient experiences.

Your new department

You will join a high-performing Marketing & Strategy organisation committed to transforming healthcare through innovation and collaboration. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Consumer Marketing and working closely with cross-functional teams, this role offers the opportunity to influence strategic priorities while working with some of the most innovative healthcare partners in the market.

Your skills and qualifications

We're looking for someone who thrives on building relationships and turning strategic vision into tangible results. You'll bring with you:

To succeed in this role, you should have:

• A Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Pharmacy, Life Sciences, or a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years' experience in partnerships building, key account management or business development, ideally connected with the healthcare ecosystem and or e-commerce
• Strong understanding of e-pharmacy business models, telemedicine workflows, digital healthcare ecosystems, and digital marketing funnels.
• Demonstrated success negotiating complex commercial agreements with multiple stakeholders and delivering sustainable partnership value.
• Demonstrated experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with senior professionals to achieve ambitious business goals
• Fluency in Romanian and English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Curiosity and openness to emerging market trends and new opportunities. The ability to manage multiple partnerships simultaneously, prioritize strategically, and use data to drive decisions and optimize performance. Exceptional negotiation and influencing skills with strong communication. A results-driven mindset with a strong "doer" mentality – you excel at execution and can navigate complexity to get things done

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

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.

• Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 247,380.00 y 445,280.00 RON, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.
• Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Deadline

Apply before 6th August uploading your CV in english. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

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.