Vice President, CMR, Denmark

Are you an experienced leader with a passion for medical affairs, clinical development and regulatory affairs? Do you have a proven track record in the pharmaceutical industry and a desire to drive ambitious results? If so, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity to join Novo Nordisk as the Vice President, CMR in our Danish affiliate. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position

As Vice President, CMR you will play a vital role managing our CMR team (Clinical, Medical, Safety, Regulatory and Customer Service), which leads medical, clinical and regulatory efforts in the Danish market for Novo Nordisk’s robust portfolio as well as new products in the pipeline.

You will be a key part in the Danish leadership team, and reporting to the General Manager and Corporate Vice President of the Danish affiliate, you will have five direct reports: Head of Medical Affairs, Clinical Medical Director, Head of the Clinical Development Centre (CDC) Denmark, Head of Regulatory Safety & Customer Service and CMR Business Partner. Furthermore, you will be working closely with our commercial functions in the affiliate and finding strategic solutions and collaborations cross-functionally with an enterprise mindset. There are currently 90 employees in the CMR department.

While passionate about our purpose, your leadership will establish a clear direction for the department, ensuring alignment with our strategic objectives for the affiliate. You will delegate responsibilities appropriately to ensure effective team performance and collaborate with the Danish leadership team to achieve ambitious results.

Your role will involve developing people within your area of responsibility, building and maintaining a lean, effective, and sustainable CMR organization. At the same time, focus will be on cultivating and nourishing the right behaviors and culture within the team.

Additionally, ensuring internal alignment with stakeholders in the Novo Nordisk matrix organization will be crucial, as will fostering external scientific partnerships. These partnerships will encompass clinical studies, real-world evidence (RWE), investigator-sponsored studies (ISS), medical education, guidelines, and conferences, all aimed at driving the advancement of scientific knowledge and innovation.

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who possesses the following qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in a global multinational pharmaceutical company.

• Previous affiliate and/or regional/HQ experience.

• 5+ years of management experience, manager of managers ideally.

• 5+ years of medical, clinical, and/or regulatory/safety experience.

• Understanding of product development and value chain at a strategic level.

• A relevant life science degree (MD, MS, MPH, PhD, MSc, BSc).

• Fluency in Danish and English.

• Business and leadership training.

About the business area

The Danish affiliate is responsible for securing access to Novo Nordisk’s products in the Danish market. In addition to the CMR department, the Danish affiliate includes functions such as Commercial Affairs and Strategy, Sales Execution, Customer Engagement ant Commercial Innovation, Market Access, Public Affairs and Communications, Finance and Operations, People and Organization and Legal, Compliance and Quality. The affiliate is located in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark, with a total of 180 employees.

Joining us means becoming an integral part of a passionate, dynamic, and fast paced team that is dedicated to achieving excellence. Together, we share a common goal: making a meaningful impact on patients' lives in Denmark.

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 and Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by 24 November 2024 the latest.

For further information please contact Senior Executive Search Partner Marlene Cecilia Villumsen at [email protected] or get to know us better by visiting www.novonordisk.com/careers

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.