Business Development and Partnerships

Do you have experience developing innovative business models? Do you want to help revolutionise the way people around the world access treatment today digitally, as well as in-person? Do you have a strong drive and willingness to take educated risks for large rewards? And do you want to be part of a team that is at the centre of modelling new business opportunities across the value chain? If this sounds appealing, we would love to talk to you!

Read on and apply to become our new Business Development and Partnerships Manager.

The Position

This newly created position is based in Switzerland and reporting to the Executive Assistant to CVP & GM.

As healthcare is rapidly transforming, we are seeking an individual to enhance partnerships that facilitate patient access to treatment in a convenient manner. The successful candidate will work on strategic partnership projects in the Swiss market, contributing to innovative processes and business models. The ideal candidate will be a highly skilled communicator who can execute agile projects. You must have a proven track record of creating tangible business results, with outstanding analytical skills – who can develop compelling business cases and manage stakeholders at all levels of organisations internally and externally.

• Drive development of a partnership strategy for Switzerland as well as lead cross-functional collaborations to identify, negotiate and implement patient-centric experiences
• Collaborate with internal and external partners to achieve specific targeted outcomes
• Deep dive into existing and emerging innovative solutions to understand how value is created
• Lead negotiating and contracting process, ensuring cross-functional alignment
• Drive implementation of solutions in Switzerland while securing viable business outcomes for all involved parties

As part of this role, you will also manage one or portfolio of business development opportunities, depending on size and complexity and become a subject matter expert and develop, organise and share best practises

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you will also need to be commercially astute, exhibit great curiosity about emerging trends and have a strong growth mindset because of the rapid changes happening in the field. You have a university degree in related field (Business, Engineering, Supply Chain or Innovation), MBA or master’s degree preferred. A successful candidate must be fluent in English and German, French is of an advantage.

In addition, we like to see that you have:

• At least a few years of innovation experience in the field of healthcare including experience in digital commerce, strategic partnerships
• Business model development experience, understand the drivers of success of specific models and understand commercial dynamics
• Experience in developing relationships and working with multiple stakeholders on high profile cross-functional and multinational initiatives 
• Proven strategic thinking abilities
• Excellent project planning, management and stakeholder management skills
• Business and industry knowledge.

About the Department

Novo Nordisk Pharma AG is the Swiss Affiliate, with over 100 employees, dedicated to making a remarkable difference to patients across the country. Located at the Circle, Zurich Airport. The Swiss Affiliate is part of EUCAN (Europe and Canada), which is part of IO (International Operations).

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 challenges. 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 lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

Please apply to the role via our Careers site as unfortunately we don’t accept directly sent resumes.

Deadline

Please apply before 20th June 2025.

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.