Regional Medical Manager, Ankara

Do you have a strong desire to improve care for people with obesity and their quality of life? Would you enjoy facilitating the communication of scientific data and the sharing of knowledge among medical experts in Türkiye?

Does interacting with leading Medical Doctors and Scientists on an innovative portfolio in obesity interest you? If yes, join us as a Regional Medical Manager on an exciting journey to make a difference in the management of obesity. This role is based in Ankara and reports to the Head of Medical and Scientific Affairs.
 
The Position
The Regional Medical Manager (RMM) is responsible to contribute actively to build, maintain and update scientific knowledge in the therapy area. As a Regional Medical Manager, you will be planning, executing and disseminating up-to-date medical knowledge and clinical trial data, leveraging scientific and clinical expertise with local and regional physicians. You are expected to have the understanding of scientific data for training purposes and are expected to design, help and/or coordinate educational programmes and workshops. You will be working closely with key Opinion Leaders in the area of obesity, helping improve the quality of obesity management in your region of responsibility.

Your key responsibilities will to 

• Develop regional medical advisory services for stakeholders, to increase scientific awareness and clinical usefulness profile of our products, to develop short-, medium-, and long-term local and national plans, and to collaborate cross-functionally with a customer-centred focus. 
• Build strong scientific and peer relationships with key stakeholders and identified major institutions within the health care sector, as well as to liaise with office-based medical managers to ensure optimal delivery of scientific information to the medical and scientific community. 
• Act as a scientific ambassador for Novo Nordisk, ensuring that the profile of the company remains high amongst key stakeholders through establishing a peer-to-peer relationship based on scientific rigor and integrity. 
• Provide medical training for various internal and external stakeholders. 

The role demands spending more than 70% of the time in the field, with travelling flexibility.
 

Qualifications
You should have a strong medical background with qualifications as having degree in Medicine, and preferably with a post-graduate medical qualification. It is expected to have excellent command of written and spoken English and Turkish. Minimum of 1 years’ experience in medical affairs in the pharmaceutical industry is considered an advantage. The further sought after skills are

• You have a critical thinking mindset to aim for the best qualitative solutions in a changing business environment with scientific and business integration mindset
• You possess a strong scientific and have medical knowledge with a good business understanding with learning agility
• You have an excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities and effective time management skills
• You should be aligned with our Novo Nordisk Way and demonstrate knowledge of the health care system in Turkey and be able to link scientific data with business strategy

 
About the department
The Clinical, Medical, Regulatory (CMR) department provides timely, accurate, and updated services to support Novo Nordisk in all therapeutic areas. The Clinical, Medical, Regulatory Department is a team of skilled and committed specialists within medical, clinical, regulatory, areas. Reporting into our Head of Medical Affairs , you will play a key role within our Clinical, Medical & Regulatory unit. As part of our key missions, we strive to improve patients' lives by ensuring healthcare decisions are based on latest evidence. We work in a culture of collaboration, result orientation, trust, accountability, and commitment.
 
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. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 64,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.
 

Contact
To submit your application, please upload your CV and motivational letter online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). 
 
Deadline
24 February 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.