Senior Medical Advisor/Medical Advisor, Rare Disease

Are you passionate about driving scientific communication strategies and engaging with healthcare professionals to make a difference in patients’ lives? Do you thrive in a dynamic, cross-functional environment where you can lead, coach, and innovate? If so, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity as a Senior Medical Advisor/Medical Advisor, Rare Disease at Novo Nordisk. Read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has equipped us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 77,000 people in 80 offices and markets our products in more than 170 countries.
The Medical Affairs Department at Novo Nordisk is a collaborative and dynamic team that partners with clinical development, sales, and marketing to ensure alignment of medical activities. Our mission is to enhance team capabilities to drive scientific dialogue through medical information, KOL engagements, medical education, publications, and advisory boards. Based in a fast-paced and innovative environment, the department also manages budgets within product responsibilities, ensuring impactful and compliant execution of medical strategies.

The position
As a Senior Medical Advisor/Medical Advisor, Rare Disease, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing medical strategies to support Novo Nordisk’s therapeutic and business goals. Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead and guide Medical Affairs colleagues in developing and executing effective medical strategies within the assigned therapy area or product.
• Provide training and coaching to enhance team capabilities and drive key projects for optimizing Medical Affairs work processes.
• Establish and maintain relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), academic institutions, and stakeholders to support strategic initiatives.
• Develop and implement medical education plans, including symposia and internal scientific resources, while providing medical guidance for marketing strategies.
• Manage the annual therapeutic line/product budget, ensuring compliance with applicable laws and regulations, and identify gaps in clinical and outcomes research to support investigator-initiated studies (ISS).

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a scientific field.
• Experience in Medical Affairs or Clinical Development within the pharmaceutical industry or in scientific research (academia).
• Proficient in both English and Japanese.
• Demonstrates a strong interest in science and business, with action-oriented results-focused skills and proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, manage projects, and effectively identify and solve problems.
• Possesses excellent presentation skills, proficiency in literature search and assessment, and business-level expertise in MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.

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 energize 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
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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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