Medical Affairs Manager

Would you like to join a global & local leader in diabetes, obesity & blood disorders to benefit Oceania patients? Does managing medical expertise to support “best in class” launches for pipeline assets interest you? If yes join us on an exciting journey where you will lead, coach, and inspire a high performing Medical Affairs team. Novo Nordisk has opened a role for Medical Affairs Manager, based in North Sydney, Australia. Be part of our life-changing careers and apply today!
 

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and supervision in diabetes care. The Novo Nordisk Oceania affiliate is a high performing and growing organisation operating within a dynamic healthcare environment across Australia and New Zealand. Our primary therapy areas are diabetes and obesity, and we offer a broad range of medicines within the areas of haemophilia, growth disorders and women’s health.

Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.
 

The position
In this position, you will oversee a Medical Affairs Team, effectively organizing and carrying out Medical Affairs tasks to support strategic medical objectives, business opportunities, overall brand plans, and the affiliate's strategy, taking into account short and long-term business requirements.
You will be reporting to the Medical Affairs Director and in charge of leading and managing a growing team of Medical Advisors.
This position requires:

• Work cross functionally with commercial Business Units, clinical research, and patient access to provide medical and scientific expertise for our current and future business.
• This is a critical leadership role with over-arching responsibility for developing the medical function that will ultimately empower and support the performance of our business by collaborating across internal and external stakeholders, including medical education programs and thought leader engagement.
• Ensuring that KOL engagement plans and HCP interaction plans are achieved.
• Developing effective relationships with key customers and relevant medical institutions to attain a competitive edge, market leadership to support sales activities, and to address issues.

Qualifications

• A Ph.D. in life sciences or a Medical Degree (MD) is desirable.
• Minimum 5 years of pharmaceutical industry Medical Affairs department experience (desirable) with Management experience.
• Industry experience relevant to diabetes, obesity, and cardiovascular disease areas, is required as well as high levels of ethics and integrity putting the patient at the heart of all decisions.
• Recent and multiple new product launch experience with an extensive external stakeholder network is valued, along with experience in leading teams and projects.
• Ability to work well cross-functionally with excellent networking abilities. Proficiency in both oral and written English is essential. 

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 difficulties. 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 energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can live a life free of chronic disease.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
We will review applications as they are received so don’t hesitate to apply!
 

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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