Vice President, Obesity Portfolio

Vor 6 Tagen


Zurich, Schweiz Novo Nordisk Vollzeit

Are you looking for an opportunity to drive our new, fastest growing disease area? Do you bring experience in both strategic and operational positions and different organisational levels? Are you motivated at the prospect of helping improve patients’ lives, all over the world?

**About the Department**

Headquartered in Zurich, International Operations (IO) covers 22 time-zones and has over 14,000 employees around the world working passionately to change over 20 million patients’ lives each day. As a key driver of Novo Nordisk’s growth, and a geographical scope of 7 Regions covering 194 countries, IO offers a dynamic environment and a world of opportunities.

Around 430 million people are living with diabetes in these countries and an estimated 570 million live with obesity. We serve 25 million people each day living with chronic diseases. Novo Nordisk International Operations, Strategic Operations (IO-SO), is based in Zürich, Switzerland.

At Novo Nordisk, we aim to hire the best talent and support their development by acting as a Talent Incubator. To ensure the development of our high potential talents at Novo Nordisk, the IO-SO Office in Zurich serves as a Talent Hub which offers employees the opportunity to gain exposure to and experience in the strategic office and establish their international network, before moving on to positions in global, the regions and markets where they can share their expertise and make space for future talents to have an opportunity to experience rotations. For a position like this, international mobility within a time horizon of three years is a requirement.

**The Position**

In this role you’ll lead the commercial agenda of overall Obesity portfolio and be the sparring partner for regions, Business Areas, affiliates, IO management and global counterparts ensuring excellent execution of our Obesity strategy. Your tasks would include:

- Developing long
- and short-term Obesity business strategies and plans as well as driving a commercial agenda for full Obesity portfolio through strategic projects and initiatives
- Preparing the organisation for future launches whilst ensuring excellent execution of launch strategy across IO
- Working consistently with strategic and complex commercial Obesity challenges that require broad-based sustainable solutions involving other functions across Novo Nordisk
- Being able to orchestrate large scale win-win situations in complex stakeholder landscapes
- Identifying the needs and opportunities for overall strategic changes in the culture and organisation or in the way by which the Obesity business is positioned

**Qualifications**
- You bring your recent operational experience in Sales or Marketing at a regional or affiliate level
- You feel confident about articulating complex issues to key decision makers as well as analysing complex issues, utilising strategic thinking, and implementing tactical plans
- Experience in obesity is a significant advantage and so is a combined regional and operational experience as well as Portfolio management experience
- You have experience working across cultures and with multifunctional teams and in working with multiple internal and external stakeholders

**Working at Novo Nordisk**

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things - from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

**Contact**

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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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