Medical Affairs Director

vor 2 Monaten


Zurich, Schweiz Novo Nordisk Vollzeit

Medical Affairs Director (100%)

**Category**:Medical Affairs**Location**:Zurich, Switzerland Zurich, CH- Are you passionate about shaping an affiliate medical strategy, ensuring compliance, and fostering team growth? Do you want to make a lasting impact? Are you ready to lead the way within Medical Affairs?- If so, then seize the opportunity and become the Swiss affiliate’s new **Medical Affairs Director**. The position will be based in Zurich (Switzerland).**The position**
- As the Medical Affairs Director at Novo Nordisk Pharma AG, you are tasked with leading the medical affairs function. Your role involves overseeing all medical affairs activities, ranging from medical strategy development and scientific communications to medical education, evidence generation, and medico-legal review of promotional materials.- In addition, your tasks will also be to:
- Develop and mentor the medical affairs team and individual members, ensuring their professional growth and success
- Drive the affiliate’s transition into a cardiometabolic company
- Foster collaboration between your department and marketing, sales, and market access teams to achieve cross-functional alignment and enhance overall effectiveness in meeting organizational objectives
- Foster innovativeness, curiosity, and creativity within the medical affairs team to advance medical affairs capabilities and support organizational objectives
- Ensure that all medical affairs activities are compliant with relevant regulations, guidelines, and policies
- In this role you will report directly to the Head of CMR (Clinical, Medical and Research)**Qualifications**
- You should bring outstanding leadership, strategic thinking, and innovation to develop and implement medical affairs strategies. Demonstrate excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and a blend of science and business acumen. Embrace a collaborative mindset with assertiveness, ensuring effective leadership in medical affairs.- Medical degree (MD or equivalent) or advanced scientific degree (PhD, PharmD)
- 8+ years of experience in different medical affairs roles (or in a related field) in markets similar to Switzerland
- Strong leadership skills, ability to lead teams, and documented people and team development capabilities
- Good knowledge of English language is a must, knowledge in any of the local languages (German, French, Italian) would be advantageous

**About the Commercial Unit**
- Novo Nordisk Pharma AG is the Swiss Affiliate, with over 90 employees, located at the Circle, Zurich Airport. The Swiss Affiliate belongs to Region North West Europe, which is part of IO (International Operations).**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**- 20th February 2024- 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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