Medical Director Cardiovascular

Are you a skilled medical professional looking for a new opportunity? Do you have experience within Medical Affairs and a passion for making a difference in patients' lives? Would you be interested in driving and developing the Medical Affairs strategic ambition and plans for Cardiovascular across Region North West Europe (NWE)? If so, we have the perfect role for you as a Medical Director at Novo Nordisk. Join our team in Denmark and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As a Medical Affairs professional at Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to drive the cardiovascular medical affairs strategy and priorities in Region NWE,  co-lead and co-chair Region NWE medical leadership community within Cardiovascular, ensuring close collaboration, sharing of information, communication, and implementation of strategic priorities. You will be also expected to ensure best practice sharing and identify synergies across affiliates, provide individual affiliate support and support development of medical employees across Regional NWE ensuring up to date medical capabilities.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to:

• Foster cross-functional collaboration and direction setting in Region NWE
• Continuously develop and implement strategic initiatives to enhance medical affairs excellence in Region NWE
• Represent Region NWE in medical International Operations/Global for a for Cardiovascular
• Engage with internal and external medical/scientific stakeholders
• Provide medical expertise for Cardiovascular acting as Subject Matter Expert for all products within your responsibility and drive the timely, accurate and credible building medical knowledge within the project

The position will report to the Head of Medical Affairs, RareD, Cardiovascular and Emerging Therapy Areas.

Qualifications

For this role we’re searching for a person with a strategic mindset who can communicate regional priorities in light of the business needs and the ability to empower others through coaching or mentoring. The ideal candidate is good at negotiating with multiple stakeholders and can navigate in the matrix and prioritize regional needs while at the same time be able to support initiatives coming from other stakeholders (e.g. Global/IO)

In addition:

• You preferably hold a medical degree (M.D.) with clinical cardiovascular experience. Experience within Heart Failure and/or ischemic cardiovascular disease will be seen as a benefit
• Substantial medical affairs experience preferably within the cardiovascular field.
• Strong presentation skills and results oriented personality, thriving in a setting with a high level of complexity and have solid problem-solving capabilities and a positive attitude
• Good business understanding and leadership experience
• Project-based activity and successfully delivering initiatives

About the Department

Novo Nordisk Region NWE is an operations unit under International Operations covering 13 countries with 7 elevated affiliates and 1 Business Area with 6 affiliates employing more than 1800 people. We are on a great growth trajectory growing from a large base.

You get the opportunity to join an international, high performing team having a broad variety of interactions with key stakeholders in the organisation. The Clinical, Medical & Regulatory (CMR) organisation supports the planning and execution of clinical trials as well as development and implementation of medical strategies across all therapy areas and development phases. We worked highly collaborative with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

If you have any questions, please contact Marianne Treppendahl, Head of Medical Affairs RareD, Cardiovascular and Emerging Therapy Areas at +453075 3709 ǀ [email protected].

Please apply to the role via our online platform, as we don’t accept directly sent CVs.

Deadline

Apply before Friday 29th March

We would very much appreciate if you could include a cover letter to your application.

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.