Fellowship - Multidisciplinary (Multiple Positions)

About the Department                                                                                                                                               

The Clinical, Medical and Regulatory (CMR) department at Novo Nordisk is one of the most diverse and collaborative groups within the organization. From health-care-provider interactions and developing and implementing regulatory strategies with the FDA to providing medical education and collecting data to support efficacy and new product development, CMR is involved. The one thing that keeps us all marching to the same beat is our patient-centered focus. At Novo Nordisk, you will help patients around the world. As their needs evolve, so does our challenge to find better and more innovative ways to improve their quality of life. We’re changing lives for a living. Are you ready to make a difference?

The Position
The Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship is a two-year, experiential program based in Plainsboro, New Jersey. This fellowship is intended to provide an educational and practical experience for a PharmD within the pharmaceutical industry. The fellow will contribute to different functional areas at Novo Nordisk Inc., where a PharmD’s training and expertise will provide value to the organization. The fellow will gain the skills needed to pursue a career within the pharmaceutical industry where their education and experience can make a significant contribution to meeting customer needs and achieving company goals.

During this two-year fellowship, the fellow will gain experience in several concentrated focus areas: one year in Medical Information and two, 6-month rotations in other functional area(s) within the department at Novo Nordisk, Inc.

Relationships
The fellow will report to the Fellowship Director throughout the two-year program and will also have a reporting relationship with a manager/preceptor in the respective functional areas during their rotations.  Additional key internal relationships may include Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, Learning & Development, Clinical Trial Management, and Clinical Development.

Essential Functions

• Fellow will collaborate with cross-functional areas including Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, etc. This structured approach will allow for a broad, “hands-on” experience.
• Fellow may complete a research project related to challenges, best practices, trending topics, and/or innovative methods for communication of scientific information. This research may then be presented to internal stakeholders or at a key conference/congress.
• Fellow may be asked to attend other relevant scientific conventions, national team meetings, and other travel as required and as feasible based on business needs.  
• Fellow will gain experience for one year in Medical Information and two additional 6-month rotations in two of the functional areas listed below.

Medical Information (required)

• Gain an understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Medical Information Manager in a pharmaceutical industry setting.
• Provide verbal, written, and on-demand video responses to unsolicited medical and technical inquiries about Novo Nordisk, Inc. products from health care professionals (HCPs), institutions, and/or payors.
• Create and/or revise standard and custom Medical Information responses for use in answering existing and anticipated medical and technical inquiries from HCPs.
• Assist field medical and sales colleagues who receive unsolicited inquiries and request medical information support.
• Revise and/or add to content in comprehensive evidence-based medical information documents (e.g., clinical overviews, formulary dossiers, online evidence repository).
• Ensure compliance with FDA requirements as they affect medical communications; responses must be accurate, up-to-date, balanced, and scientific.
• Provide related medical support, which may include but is not limited to: internal product and disease state training, collaborating on Customer Care Center scripts, staffing medical booths at meetings/conventions, global alignment of medical information standards and best practices.

Medical Promotional Review (option)

• Gain an understanding of Medical Promotional Review and the team’s commitment to critically evaluating promotional material for its scientific validity and medical accuracy, as well as consistency with the FDA-approved labeling. 
• Assist the Promotional Review Board (PRB) team to ensure all promotional materials (i.e. , consumer and HCP websites, HCP brochures, disease awareness campaigns, direct-to-consumer commercials) are accurate, fair-balanced, truthful, and non-misleading, all while helping to achieve marketing’s goals. 
• Learn the core fundamentals of Medical Accuracy Review and Medical Review in an assigned therapeutic area(s).
• Participate in cross-collaborative PRB meetings, engaging with stakeholder colleagues in Medical Affairs, Marketing, Legal, Marketing Operations, and Product Safety.

Medical Education (option)

• Gain an understanding of industry regulations pertaining to Independent Medical Education and ensure that assigned programs are funded and executed in compliance with these guidelines.
• Participate in the review and evaluation of grant requests submitted by various medical education providers. Analyze needs assessments, instructional design, learning objectives, and agenda in submitted grant requests to ensure alignment with medical education strategy.
• Manage assigned medical education programs to ensure successful implementation of programs within budget.
• Review program content, after their dissemination to intended audiences, for medical accuracy and fair balance.
• Assess the effectiveness of supported programs by reviewing outcomes data.
• Develop and disseminate monthly communications to internal stakeholders to share the value of supported medical education programs.

Publications (option)

• Gain an understanding of industry regulations pertaining to scientific publications and ensure that publications are executed in compliance with these guidelines.
• Participate in the development of publication plans, needs assessment, gap analysis and publication proposals to ensure alignment with Novo Nordisk, Inc. and Global publication strategy. 
• Represent Publications team at Global Publications Planning Group meetings, and internal stakeholder and external vendor status update meetings. 
• Manage assigned disease state or product-specific publications to ensure successful poster or oral presentations at congresses and submissions of manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals.
• Assess the impact and reach of Novo Nordisk, Inc. Publications.
• Innovate publications and extend the reach through multichannel engagements, digital formats of publications (publication extenders), and automation and AI technologies.

Physical Requirements

• 10% overnight travel required.  

Qualifications

• Received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy within the last three years.
• Strong academic track record preferred.
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities.
• Presentable, highly articulate, goal-oriented, honest, with high integrity and strong ethics.
• Track record of teamwork, innovation and project management.
• Ability to think critically, strategically, and independently.
• Possess good communication skills, both oral, written and presentation.
• Demonstrate an ability to perform medical accuracy review with strong attention to detail.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office software applications such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word and overall computer skills with knowledge of literature search technique required.

At this time, Novo Nordisk is not currently hiring individuals for this position who now or in the future would require sponsorship for employment visa status.

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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