Director, Commercial Strategy & Marketing

At Novo Nordisk, we believe clear strategies and targeted marketing do more than just drive growth — they improve lives.   From strategy to execution: join us as Director, Commercial Strategy & Marketing and lead the high-impact team that drives our portfolio strategy.

 If you’re someone who thrives at the intersection of insight, execution, and impact, this is your opportunity to help shape how we engage customers and healthcare professionals across Norway.

Your new role

As our new Director for Commercial Strategy & Marketing, you will be responsible for translating affiliate and brand ambitions into clear commercial strategies, customer and channel priorities, integrated marketing plans, and omnichannel engagement models that drive growth, strengthen competitiveness, and improve customer impact. Reporting to the General Manager and through leadership of Consumer Activation, HCP Marketing, and Customer Excellence units, the role ensures that marketing strategies and campaigns are insight-driven, measurable, compliant, and fully aligned with business priorities.

In more details, your key accountabilities will be:

• Based on a thorough understanding of the market drive local portfolio strategy, launch readiness, and lifecycle brand planning to ensure aligned,   market-relevant execution across functions.
• Define and drive the affiliate’s consumer  activation approach across channels, ensuring alignment with brand priorities and regulatory requirements.
• Own the HCP marketing strategy, delivering segmented, insight‑driven, integrated campaigns in close alignment with Medical, Market Access, and Commercial Execution.
• Lead the end‑to‑end digital and omnichannel strategy to deliver seamless, high‑quality customer experiences, supported by strong governance, execution discipline, and performance measurement.
• versee the creation and execution of compliant, high‑impact campaigns, continuously optimizing channel mix, customer targeting and segmentation, and investment decisions.
• Own the strategic use of insights, analytics, and performance measurement to continuously shape strategy, optimise return of investments, and inform forecasting.
• As the leader of leaders, build, lead, and develop high‑performing teams, fostering accountability, capability growth, and a strong performance‑driven culture.

The department

You will join a highly engaged and purpose‑driven organisation, united by a shared ambition to make a meaningful difference for patients. Our Norwegian affiliate consists of approximately 85 employees across sales, marketing, clinical, medical, and other functions. In the newly established position as Strategy and Marketing Director, you will head up a department of approximately 20 high performing employees, divided in three sub departments. You will be a member of the local Leadership Team, and you will promote an enterprise mindset and strong performance culture to ensure focused execution, rapid response to market developments, and continuous improvement across the commercial organization. You will have P&L responsibility.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for a strategic, commercially minded leader who can shape direction, and deliver results. To succeed in the role you should bring a:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Marketing, Business Administration or related field
• Significant leadership experience in developing commercial strategies, marketing plans, and integrated campaigns in a regulated environment.
• Experience in pharma, healthcare, medtech, or another highly regulated industry strongly preferred. Additional experience in consumer, digital engagement, or adjacent consumer-facing marketing models is an advantage.
• Proven experience in digital marketing, omnichannel strategy, customer activation, and performance measurement together with experience in insights generation, analytics, and ROI-based investment decisions.
• Experience leading and developing teams as people manager is required
• Fluency in English. Fluency in a Nordic language is an advantage

You combine sharp market insight with a data-driven approach to decision-making, and you translate strategy into creative, measurable campaigns that move performance. With a customer-centric mindset and a deep understanding of behaviour and preferences, you know how to optimise the full customer journey across channels. You collaborate naturally and communicate with impact, influencing cross-functional teams and external partners with confidence. You thrive in a dynamic environment, bringing innovation, strong project leadership and solid organisational skills, always grounded in our values of Respect, Openness and Accountability. 

Working 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.

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.

Deadline to apply

30th April 2026. Are you interested in this opportunity? We look forward to your online application before the application deadline. Please include your CV and cover letter in English.

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.