Department: Medical Affairs HQ BLR
About the department
Global Medical Affairs, GBS (GMA GBS) is an extension of the Global Medical Affairs team in Headquarters (HQ) in Denmark and Zurich and is based out of Global Business Services (GBS), Bangalore, India. The team consists of highly motivated scientific and medical advisors, project managers, medical illustrators, and publication manager working together with HQ, regions, and affiliates across the world. Our core competencies are communicating scientific and medical knowledge on our products to the external scientific community and across the organization; delivering external medical events including in-house content development and project management; and Publication planning.
The Position
This position is responsible for strategic ownership and executing GMA deliverables for Diabetes (Insulin and GLP-1 areas) and contributing to medical strategy and GMA activities across focus areas for GMA-BLR accountable products within Diabetes (LCM products including modern and new generation insulins, Semaglutide and other relevant products under transition).
Key Responsibilities.
Strategic direction setting and management of the Global Medical Affairs deliverables:
- Responsible for prioritizing cross-organizational collaboration (R&D, CSCA, GS, affiliates)
- In alignment with the Manager, responsible for developing the global medical affairs strategy incl. publication strategy in alignment with the brand strategy set by the CCT/GPT
- Contributes to and gives input to therapy area strategy and participates in TA leadership discussions, flagging challenges and highlights from GMA-BLR-related products/projects
- Strategic and proactive collaboration with Therapy area leads (Directors, Sr. Directors, and VPs) to ensure alignment on expectations, feedback, and areas for value creation
- Guidance and coaching of team members and creating a culture of continuous development of the team to meet functional requirements. Develops team members to take on more strategic and complex responsibilities
Clinical activities: (Insights for strategy, Evidence generation, Clinical care pathways)
- Responsible for cross-project and portfolio alignment and timing of clinical activities, specifically in relation to planning of communication strategy.
- Provide market-oriented medical input to trial design and protocol development and PDP
- Develop ISS strategy included in LCM plan/ PDP. Ensure continuously updated overview of internal and external clinical activities for specific product/project
- In alignment with area VP, develop and secure implementation of strategic directions for relevant products
- Responsible for Investigator Sponsored Studies (ISS) coordination, progress and budgets
KOL Engagement: (Scientific dialogue, Insights for strategy, Evidence generation)
- Independently drives the strategy, development, and execution of scientific communication during high-quality global meetings (e.g. scientific expert meetings, symposia, etc.)
- Gather and analyze medical and scientific feedback, e.g. from KOL interactions in advisory boards, and secure dissemination to relevant internal stakeholders.
- Signs off on and drives the development and execution of scientific storylines, content, and topics of global advisory boards and ensures that necessary feedback loops within the organization are established to operationalize insights.
Publication Planning : (Scientific dialogue)
- Responsible for cross-project alignment and timing of strategic publication planning, specifically in relation to scientific publication of key data milestones.
- Drive development and execution of publication plan and strategy for each product/project in collaboration with the Global Publication Manager
- Overall responsible for the content of assigned publications (posters, abstracts, manuscripts) including frequent interactions with authors, statisticians, medical writers, and other stakeholders in collaboration with the Global Publication Manager
- Ensure high-quality publication in a timely manner according to the medical communication strategy
- Ensures generation of scientific evidence to support medical and product strategy
Scientific and medical education: (Scientific dialogue)
- Responsible for cross-project alignment and timing of strategic medical education, specifically in relation to scientific publication of key data milestones and direction of key scientific points
- Signs off on and drives the development and execution of scientific storylines, content, and topics of medical education activities
- Support the development of and execute strategy for medical education activities for each product/project (CME and non-CME)
- Execute global medical education and medical communication plan to ensure KOL/HCP recognition and understanding of the clinical profile of compound through presentations of data and participation in meetings and symposia
Internal Medical guidance: (Organisational readiness)
- Proactively secure alignment of relevant cross-functional business activities on specific product/project
- Ensures appropriate development of promotional materials initiated by Global Marketing, specifically aligning the story line based on existing medical strategy and newly generated scientific data
- Ensures resources for reviewing and approving medical content of promotional material in accordance with SOPs
- Take an active role in providing medical support to legal issues that arise from competitor complaints or other associated channels. Support execution of global marketing strategy
- Medical/scientific support to Public Affairs and/or Market Access in negotiations with payers/policy makers for specific product/project
- Support key markets/regions/affiliates. Certification and review of API updates
Communication and Stakeholder interaction:
Key Internal Stakeholders:
- Medical Affairs (Medical Directors other regional heads, MedAff HQ, National Medical Advisors, Field Medical Force)
- Marketing, Sales. Global Development
- Public Affairs, Regulatory and Quality. Global Medical Affairs management
- Brand and area Global Project Team (GPT)/ Lifecycle Management Team
- Core Brand Team (CBT)
- Local and international Health Care Professionals and Influencers (local and global Opinion Leaders)
- Medical, scientific, and patient organizations
- Medical communication agencies
Qualifications
- M.D. with substantial clinical and/or research expertise in a relevant area (e.g. Endocrinology, Cardiology, General Practice, or Internal Medicine)
- Strong clinical and/or research background in the area of diabetes mellitus with an interest in advanced scientific analysis and communication and experience in drug development
- Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry. Fluency in both spoken and written English
- Demonstrated research experience (e.g. publications)
- Additional education and experience in pharma business/marketing (preferable)
- Minimum 1 year of study or work in a country other than the native country (preferable)
- Additional education/scientific degree in research (e.g. PhD) (preferable)
Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.
Contact
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Deadline
25th February 2025
Disclaimer
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