Senior Manager, Medical Affairs Operations

Senior Manager, Medical Affairs Operations

Department: M&R
Location: Sweden, Stockholm

Shape the future of medical affairs in Sweden – where your leadership directly translates scientific excellence into better outcomes for patients living with serious chronic diseases.

Your new role

As Sr Manager, Medical Affairs Operations, you will lead and develop our team of Regional Medical Advisors (RMAs), ensuring strategic decisions are brought to life through impactful tactics. You will also drive our Omnichannel Customer Engagement (OCE) ambitions, expanding our scientific footprint through both traditional and digital channels in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading the RMA team through clear goal setting, performance management, KPIs, coaching and co-travel feedback – while ensuring continuous development in current and new disease areas
• Develop RMA as needed based on individual development plans as well as the needs of the company.
• Ensuring KOL and DOL engagement plans are in place, executed and measured – including identification of new opinion leaders
• Lead operational medical affairs work through but not limited to; advocacy follow-up, advisory boards, ISS collaborations, clinical trial support, high-quality scientific education and training of HCPs, securing relevant scientific content for symposia, congress highlight meetings and educational seminars.
• Lead medical affairs operations towards a more scalable digital engagement footprint as well as the application of AI in daily practice
• Ensure insights gathering for strategy and tactics.
• Leading the OCE agenda from a medical perspective together with Customer Engagement, ensuring strong scientific output through digital channels, optimised LLM use and effective collaboration with the communications team on local media
• Providing internal medical guidance, including review and approval of promotional material, training of external-facing employees, sales training support and medical information
• Holding budget responsibility for the Medical Affairs Operations team
• Partnering with the Head of Medical Affairs, the extended Leadership Team (Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Comms, Clinical, CE, HR), Region Northwest and EUCAN Medical Affairs

Your new department

As part of International Operations, you will join our largest operational unit. Covering 194 countries and 95% of the world's population, more than 18,000 of us work passionately to serve 35 million patients each day. With a promise to outperform the competition, we continue to be the growth driver for Novo Nordisk, and to improve health at scale across the globe.

Within IO, you will join Medical Affairs in Sweden – a close-knit, science-driven team that combines deep therapy area expertise with a strong ambition to redefine how medical engagement is delivered. Here, you will work shoulder-to-shoulder with colleagues across the affiliate and the Region NW / EUCAN Medical Affairs community to ensure healthcare professionals have access to the best science, in the most relevant formats, at the right time.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for an experienced and people-oriented leader who thrives at the intersection of science, strategy and stakeholder engagement. To succeed in this role, you bring:

• A higher scientific qualification (MSc required; PhD or MD desirable), combined with around 8 years of Medical Affairs pharmaceutical industry experience
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to set direction, coach and develop high-performing medical teams
• Relevant therapy area knowledge and a solid understanding of the Swedish healthcare system, including national/local guidelines and drug formulary committees
• Strong collaborative, presentation and training skills, with a natural leadership mindset and genuine enjoyment of engaging with people
• IT literacy and a curiosity and ideas for how digital tools and AI can elevate medical affairs and KOL/DOL engagement
• Proven experience from Medical Affairs OCE
• Excellent written and spoken English and Swedish

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 922,620.00 to 1,337,800.00 SEK, 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.

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.