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About the Department 

The Cardiometabolic Marketing Team leads the US marketing efforts for Novo Nordisk’s robust cardiometabolic product portfolio, which includes world class therapies for the treatment of diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and other serious chronic diseases. As part of the team, you will contribute to the development and delivery of our portfolio vision, business strategies, and tactical plans that drive our business forward. You will help to drive the NNI portfolio and Brand strategies to ensure the products reach the people who need them most.

The Position

A track in Novo Nordisk Inc.'s Industry Practice Fellowship Program, the Portfolio Marketing Fellowship within KOL (Key Opinion Leader) Engagement & Professional Education (KEPE) is a one-year program within Novo Nordisk Inc.'s Marketing department based in Plainsboro, New Jersey.

The KEPE team's vision is to ensure Novo Nordisk's leadership by optimizing promotional education and health care provider engagement while identifying and exploring future healthcare trends leading to improved patient care. This fellowship is intended to expose the Pharm.D. Fellow to the development of promotional education content and the design and execution of promotional education programs targeted for healthcare professionals. The Pharm.D. Fellow will engage in information gathering activities such as advisory boards, focus groups and publication surveillance to gain and apply insights to guide KEPE with Brand strategic and tactical planning.

The postdoctoral fellow will focus on KEPE at Novo Nordisk Inc., where a Pharm.D.'s training and expertise will provide value to the organization. The fellow will gain the skills needed to pursue a career within the pharmaceutical industry where their education and experience can make a significant contribution to satisfying customer needs and achieving company goals.

Relationships

The fellow will report to their Fellowship Manager/Preceptor within KOL Engagement and Professional Education throughout the one-year program. Additional key internal relationships include Medical Affairs, Marketing, Legal and Regulatory Affairs. Other internal relationships include managed care, trade, government affairs and global marketing.

External relationships include relations with key opinion leaders, clinicians, and professional services vendors.

Essential Functions

• General:
  • All fellows will complete a Fellowship project for presentation at a key conference/congress. Additionally, fellows may be asked to attend other relevant scientific conventions, national team meetings and other travel as required for business needs related to fellow projects
  • The fellow will have regular contact with cross-functional areas, including Marketing, Medical Affairs, Medical Operations and Legal.  This structured approach will allow for a broad “hands on” experience enabling the fellows to gain the skills needed to pursue a career within the pharmaceutical industry
• KOL Engagement & Professional Education
  • Participate in the development of promotional education content and the design and execution of promotional education programs targeted to healthcare professionals
  • Engage in information gathering activities such as advisory boards, focus groups and publication surveillance to gain and apply insights to guide KEPE, brand strategy and tactical planning
  • Assist in the strategic development of annual KOL Engagement and Professional Education plans. Align with commercial brand strategies across the diabetes and obesity portfolio

Physical Requirement

• 10-20% overnight travel required

Qualifications

• A Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college of Pharmacy with strong academic record of accomplishment required
• Demonstrate leadership capabilities
• Presentable, highly articulate, goal-orientated, honest, with high integrity and strong ethics
• Track record of teamwork, innovation, and project management
• Possess effective communication skills, both oral, written and presentation
• Demonstrate an ability to perform medical accuracy review with strong attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word software applications and overall computer skills with knowledge of literature search technique required

About Novo Nordisk Inc.

We are a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark with our US headquarters located in Plainsboro, NJ. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity, and rare blood and rare endocrine diseases. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. We employ more than 55,000 people in 80 offices around the world. For over 100 years, we have been translating the unmet medical needs of people living with a serious chronic disease into innovative medicines and delivery systems, like our insulin pens. Our treatments today are benefiting millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. From our labs to our factory floors, we are discovering and developing innovative biological medicines and making them accessible to patients throughout the world. Our industry is dynamic. And the scientific understanding of the diseases we treat and the people living with them, improves every day. This is a constant reminder that what got us to where we are t...oday is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. As an employer, we recognize the need to embrace experimentation and strive f or diversity and inclusion to help make better decisions by ensuring that multiple perspectives are considered. Together, we’re life changing.

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