Senior Director, Medical Affairs

Are you a creative leader with a passion for medical affairs? Do you have the expertise to drive strategic initiatives and build strong relationships with key stakeholders? We are seeking a Senior Director, Medical Affairs, to lead our organisation in Region Japan and achieve affiliate goals. If you are ready to make a significant impact, read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

About the department
Novo Nordisk Japan's Medical Affairs team is at the forefront of scientific communication and strategic relationship-building. Reporting directly to the Corporate Vice President, Clinical, Medical, Regulatory, and Quality (CMRQ) Development, our department is responsible for establishing and executing scientific communication strategies across clinical trial phases. Our dynamic and collaborative environment ensures medical guidance through training and internal communication, enabling us to make a meaningful impact.

The position
As Senior Director, Medical Affairs, you will lead the medical affairs organization in Region Japan to achieve affiliate goals. You will represent Novo Nordisk Japan to key external stakeholders on product and therapy-related matters. Additionally, you'll provide medical expertise and leadership to internal stakeholders and committees, driving activities aligned with global focus areas.

• Develop and implement brand-level, therapy area, and portfolio-wide medical strategies, both pre-launch and throughout product life-cycle management.
• Co-develop launch and brand plans with commercial functions, aligning business strategies and medical expertise.
• Provide input on asset development plans, portfolio prioritization, regulatory actions, and data generation to inform business decisions.
• Build strong relationships with key leaders in medical and scientific communities and drive external medical communication using omni-channel approaches.
• Ensure impactful field medical interactions with healthcare professionals (HCPs) and Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), aligned with commercial functions, and manage performance metrics for effectiveness.
• Lead and manage department teams, ensuring employee development, succession planning, budget management, and alignment with Novo Nordisk policies.

Qualifications

• MD degree or MSc/Ph.D. in natural sciences, combined with extensive corporate medical affairs experience and strong understanding of late-stage clinical trials.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry, with solid business acumen and in-depth knowledge of drug discovery, development, and commercialization.
• Solid scientific credibility, with the ability to establish relationships with top-tier leaders in medical and scientific communities and present complex issues objectively.
• Strong strategic thinker with the ability to identify business pressure points, define initiatives to address them, and navigate ambiguity while anticipating organizational needs.
• Proven ability to innovate, act as a change agent, and lead by presenting convincing organizational needs and solutions.
• Proven leadership and people management skills, with experience leading teams of scientists, medics, and pharmaceutical industry professionals, fostering mentorship and conflict resolution.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.
 
Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
 
Deadline
24-Feb-2025

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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