Do you want to be a part of fast growing and developing company, being engaged
in helping people? Join Novo Nordisk Gulf as Patient Access, Public Affairs &
Business Development Director and get a life-changing career!
The position
As Patient Access, Public Affairs & Business Development Director, you will
be responsible for creating long term Patient Access strategies that align
with the Global/Regional/BA strategies and leverage growth for the Novo
Nordisk Gulf Cluster portfolio.
You will be managing the right structure, capacity and tools for Key Account
Management, Pricing, Market Access, and Public Affairs and CE. Leading and
developing the right organisational capabilities in the affiliate.
You will also play a key role in formulating the affiliate local pricing
strategies with responsibility of managing the pricing corridor for the Novo
Nordisk portfolio in close liaison with the Business Area and Global. You will
develop evidence and relevant patient access and public affairs arguments to
provide recommendations to senior management for optimising market access and
shaping the local healthcare environment.
In addition, you will be the ambassador for Novo Nordisk and responsible for
strengthening, developing, and influencing local external policy and
regulations to support key accounts market access, while enhancing and
protecting the reputation of the company with relevant stakeholders.
Qualifications
* You have a university degree, preferably in Business or Science. A Master's Degree, in Health Economics or business would be an added advantage
* You have a minimum of 7 years of experience in relevant pharmaceutical industry and proven expertise in market access, brand or sales management, and internal and external stakeholder engagement experience.
* Analytical capability and proven strategic leadership with an ability to synthesize insights, create focus, and influence the organization to move forward in unified way.
* Strong communication and interpersonal skills, can take initiative, work and lead a dynamic team and fluent in both written/spoken English, and Arabic would be a strong plus
* You are result-oriented and driven with a flexible attitude, being mobile in the national territory and international as well.
About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 95 years of
innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us
experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity,
haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases.
Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 45,000 people in 80
countries, and markets its products in more than 169 countries.
Novo Nordisk Gulf Cluster is one of the fastest growing affiliates covering
Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar and Yemen including 80 employees spread over the
region. Being a member of the leadership team, you will have a team of 6
direct reports and report into the VP & General Manager, Gulf Cluster. This
role will be based in Kuwait.
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
To submit your application, please upload your CV and motivational letter
online (click on Apply and follow the instructions).
Deadline
Apply before 12th of August, 2022
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.