Head of Marketing

This is an unordinary chance to lead marketing, shape strategy, and impact millions of lives—are you ready to make your mark on global health? We’re hiring a Head of Marketing to lead our commercial strategy across a high-impact, rapidly evolving portfolio. 
 

Your new role
As Head of Marketing for our Diabetes and Obesity portfolio, you will lead the strategic and tactical direction of our Obesity and Diabetes portfolio, driving commercial success and better patient outcomes. Represent Novo Nordisk’s values in every customer interaction, fostering trust and delivering purpose-driven marketing that makes a real impact.
The Head of Marketing Diabetes & Obesity will report to the Senior Director Customer Strategy, in our Polish Office. 

In this position, you will:

• Lead the development and execution of the obesity and diabetes marketing strategy for Poland, across current and future products.
• Coach and empower the marketing team, fostering cross-functional collaboration and alignment.
• Monitor team performance against targets, ensuring compliance with ethical standards and company policies.
• Manage the marketing budget, ensuring efficient resource allocation and financial discipline.
• Represent Novo Nordisk at key industry and portfolio -related conferences and events, while staying updated on market and legislative developments.

Your new department
At Novo Nordisk, we recognise 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 the communities we operate in.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We are happy to discuss flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs.

Your skills & qualifications
As our ideal candidate, you will have University degree, MSc or MD, or MBA in marketing field and proficiency in both written and spoken English.

In addition, we expect you to have:

• Strong business insight and management expertise, aligned with the Novo Nordisk Way of Management.
• Solid understanding of the global pharmaceutical market, with specific knowledge of obesity and/ or diabetes care and our product portfolio.
• Proven experience in strategic and tactical marketing, including brand development and product launches.
• Excellent team leadership and managerial capabilities, fostering a high-performing and collaborative culture.
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with confidence in engaging stakeholders across all levels.
• Robust analytical thinking, commercial acumen, and a results-oriented mindset.
• A track record of delivering success through ambition and resilience, paired with a motivating, can-do attitude.
• Good knowledge of MS Office and Project Management Tools.
   

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. To-gather, we go further. Together, we’re changing life.

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.

More information
Novo Nordisk is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process and ensuring equal access to opportunities for all applicants. If you require any adjustments during the application or selection process whether due to a disability or neurodivergence - we’re here to support, you every step of the way.

Deadline
Please apply by 22nd October 2025.

Please click on 'apply now' to submit your resume in English.
We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.