Pricing Director

Would you like to drive change within a fast-growing and recognised company where you could collaborate across our largest, most dynamic, and diverse region? Have you got experience in the pharmaceutical industry where your expertise lies in pricing, contracting, and tendering? Would you describe yourself as being analytically minded, with excellence communication and stakeholder engagement skills?

**The Position**

In this position you will act as the centre of excellence, which will drive pricing strategy, solutions, and decisions for the SEEMEA Region. You will be responsible for identifying opportunities based on robust insights and analytics, bringing forward robust pricing recommendations to senior management. Additionally, you will drive high compliance and operational excellence in pricing across the SEEMEA affiliates.

Some of the key responsibilities include:

- Being responsible for defining pricing strategies for the SEEMEA region, securing senior management endorsement and local management buy-in
- Acting as centre of excellence within pricing, tender and contracting, using expertise to drive formal and informal capability building initiatives
- Securing organisational awareness and understanding of the discipline and acting as strategic partner to local and senior management
- Outlining pricing and contracting and working closely with the affiliate management teams
- Ensuring full compliance with business ethics, quality systems and procedures.

**Qualifications**
- You have at least 7-9 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry where your expertise lies in pricing, contracting, and tendering roles
- You bring a solid understanding of healthcare, reimbursement systems and procurement mechanisms in Eastern Europe, Russia/The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Middle East, Italy, and Africa
- An analytical mind, communication skills and strong stakeholder engagement skills are your asset, especially in strategic business context
- You are experienced in engaging with external stakeholders such as Ministries of Health, Hospital Management or similar.

**About the Department**

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with over 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people living with obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders, and other serious chronic diseases.

Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs approximately 47,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in over 170 countries.

The Novo Nordisk SEEMEA region was established in 2020 and is a diverse region of 110 countries, organised into three Business Areas and six Elevated Affiliates covering Russia, South and East Europe, Middle East and Africa. Region SEEMEA employs 3,400 colleagues who are dedicated to making a remarkable difference to patient care.

**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.

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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.