What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Marketing Pipeline Strategy Cardiometabolic Director position at BioSpace?
About The Department
Our Marketing & Patient Solutions group creates and delivers human-centered experiences, where innovation meets customer-centricity, driving the ultimate experience for our patients. Our focus extends beyond transactions to craft experiences as one fully integrated, aligned and connected organization that puts empathy at the center, powered by insight and foresight.
We develop an end-to-end approach to strategy, focusing on every touchpoint that impacts our customers. We leverage data and insights to inform our decision-making processes, ensuring that our strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. Our 'test and learn’ mindset and approach enables us to iterate rapidly and refine our strategies based on real-world results.
We are building an intentional team culture that is made up of diverse skillsets, united by the shared belief that reinvention and learning is what fuels continuous growth. Do you get excited about exploring the unknown? Does the idea of driving value through human-centered design pull you in? Are you ready to experiment with us?
The Position
The Associate Marketing Pipeline Strategy Director plays a pivotal role in developing commercial strategy for early-stage pharmaceutical products in NN’s cardiometabolic pipeline (programs in Phase 1, 2, and 3). This role focuses on establishing early commercial strategies to maximize product potential, by collaborating closely with clinical and medical, market access and policy, insights, and global commercial teams. This role also helps facilitate continuity of knowledge to U.S. brand teams at the appropriate time. This role serves as a commercial point of contact for global commercial asset team.
Relationships
Reports to the Senior Director Marketing, Future Portfolio & Pipeline Strategy, Cardiometabolics. Collaborates with cross-functional teams across NNI and Global, including marketing, medical, R&D, regulatory affairs, finance, Market Access, policy, insights, product supply, forecasting, and other relevant departments to ensure holistic strategy development and readiness for Governance interactions. Provides regular updates to the US and Global Therapy Area teams.
Essential Functions
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Planning: Help the Sr Dir foster early strategic alignment across cross-functional teams including marketing, market access, and medical to ensure a cohesive approach to early product commercialization. Collaborate with global commercial teams as the point of contact
Market Assessment and Opportunity Analysis: Oversee completion of thorough market assessments and opportunity analyses to identify target patient populations, unmet needs, and competitive positioning strategies
Target Product Profile (TPP) Development Support: Provide strategic input for TPPs, which then inform strategic input for clinical trial and regulatory strategy, to ensure alignment with commercialization goals. Collaborate with clinical and regulatory teams to understand clinical data / patient outcomes, identify market opportunities, address regulatory requirements, and shape product development strategies
Regulatory Compliance: Work closely with regulatory affairs to ensure early commercialization strategies comply with regulatory guidelines and industry standards
Deliver Early Commercial Strategy: Create early commercialization strategy per pipeline product, describing Where to Play, How to Win, and What to Do, that will maximize the value of the product and serve appropriate patients in the US. This includes: early brand vision, brand positioning, priority customer segments, messaging, value prop, and life cycle plan
Commercialization Transition: Facilitate the smooth transition of product strategy (from pipeline development) into TA Brand teams at the appropriate time. Ensure continuity of market research, therapy area knowledge, decision processes, and ongoing TA development activities during pre-launch years. Also, transfer knowledge between clinical development teams and marketing brand/therapy area teams, ensuring clinical insights, patient profiles, and early competitive positioning strategies are transferred to appropriate teams, to maximize product potential
Project Management and Coordination: coordinate transition between clinical development and commercialization teams, ensuring milestones are met. Identify and mitigate potential risks or challenges during the transition process, proactively addressing issues to minimize disruptions and ensure continuity of product development efforts
Continuous Improvement and Optimization: Develop continuous improvement initiatives to optimize the product transition process, implementing best practices, tools, and methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency
Physical Requirements
Approximately 20-30% overnight travel.
Qualifications
Requires a Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree preferred
Requires 10 years of experience, including product marketing, product launch, product management, pipeline strategy development, new product planning, or related roles within the pharmaceutical industry
Requires knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements
Requires knowledge of drug development processes and requirements
Requires expert knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including competitive market dynamics, and trends, especially within preferred
Strategic mindset with ability to develop and execute innovative commercial strategies aligned with NNI objectives and market opportunities
Strong planning and organizational skills with high attention to detail and proven track record of results and follow up
Ability to manage complexity, including the management of work across competing priorities, functions, and time zones
Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to communicate to/with and influence senior leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization
Project management skills, with the ability to lead and coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
Embodies leadership behaviors, including authenticity, servant leadership, will, empathy, decisiveness, and driving focus and simplicity
The base compensation range for this position is $152,700 to $267,300. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.
Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy, and parental leave policy.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.
Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.
If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Our Marketing & Patient Solutions group creates and delivers human-centered experiences, where innovation meets customer-centricity, driving the ultimate experience for our patients. Our focus extends beyond transactions to craft experiences as one fully integrated, aligned and connected organization that puts empathy at the center, powered by insight and foresight.
We develop an end-to-end approach to strategy, focusing on every touchpoint that impacts our customers. We leverage data and insights to inform our decision-making processes, ensuring that our strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. Our 'test and learn’ mindset and approach enables us to iterate rapidly and refine our strategies based on real-world results.
We are building an intentional team culture that is made up of diverse skillsets, united by the shared belief that reinvention and learning is what fuels continuous growth. Do you get excited about exploring the unknown? Does the idea of driving value through human-centered design pull you in? Are you ready to experiment with us?
The Position
The Associate Marketing Pipeline Strategy Director plays a pivotal role in developing commercial strategy for early-stage pharmaceutical products in NN’s cardiometabolic pipeline (programs in Phase 1, 2, and 3). This role focuses on establishing early commercial strategies to maximize product potential, by collaborating closely with clinical and medical, market access and policy, insights, and global commercial teams. This role also helps facilitate continuity of knowledge to U.S. brand teams at the appropriate time. This role serves as a commercial point of contact for global commercial asset team.
Relationships
Reports to the Senior Director Marketing, Future Portfolio & Pipeline Strategy, Cardiometabolics. Collaborates with cross-functional teams across NNI and Global, including marketing, medical, R&D, regulatory affairs, finance, Market Access, policy, insights, product supply, forecasting, and other relevant departments to ensure holistic strategy development and readiness for Governance interactions. Provides regular updates to the US and Global Therapy Area teams.
Essential Functions
Cross-Functional Collaboration & Planning: Help the Sr Dir foster early strategic alignment across cross-functional teams including marketing, market access, and medical to ensure a cohesive approach to early product commercialization. Collaborate with global commercial teams as the point of contact
Market Assessment and Opportunity Analysis: Oversee completion of thorough market assessments and opportunity analyses to identify target patient populations, unmet needs, and competitive positioning strategies
Target Product Profile (TPP) Development Support: Provide strategic input for TPPs, which then inform strategic input for clinical trial and regulatory strategy, to ensure alignment with commercialization goals. Collaborate with clinical and regulatory teams to understand clinical data / patient outcomes, identify market opportunities, address regulatory requirements, and shape product development strategies
Regulatory Compliance: Work closely with regulatory affairs to ensure early commercialization strategies comply with regulatory guidelines and industry standards
Deliver Early Commercial Strategy: Create early commercialization strategy per pipeline product, describing Where to Play, How to Win, and What to Do, that will maximize the value of the product and serve appropriate patients in the US. This includes: early brand vision, brand positioning, priority customer segments, messaging, value prop, and life cycle plan
Commercialization Transition: Facilitate the smooth transition of product strategy (from pipeline development) into TA Brand teams at the appropriate time. Ensure continuity of market research, therapy area knowledge, decision processes, and ongoing TA development activities during pre-launch years. Also, transfer knowledge between clinical development teams and marketing brand/therapy area teams, ensuring clinical insights, patient profiles, and early competitive positioning strategies are transferred to appropriate teams, to maximize product potential
Project Management and Coordination: coordinate transition between clinical development and commercialization teams, ensuring milestones are met. Identify and mitigate potential risks or challenges during the transition process, proactively addressing issues to minimize disruptions and ensure continuity of product development efforts
Continuous Improvement and Optimization: Develop continuous improvement initiatives to optimize the product transition process, implementing best practices, tools, and methodologies to streamline workflows and enhance efficiency
Physical Requirements
Approximately 20-30% overnight travel.
Qualifications
Requires a Bachelor’s degree; Master’s degree preferred
Requires 10 years of experience, including product marketing, product launch, product management, pipeline strategy development, new product planning, or related roles within the pharmaceutical industry
Requires knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements
Requires knowledge of drug development processes and requirements
Requires expert knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including competitive market dynamics, and trends, especially within preferred
Strategic mindset with ability to develop and execute innovative commercial strategies aligned with NNI objectives and market opportunities
Strong planning and organizational skills with high attention to detail and proven track record of results and follow up
Ability to manage complexity, including the management of work across competing priorities, functions, and time zones
Excellent written and verbal communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to communicate to/with and influence senior leaders and collaborate with cross-functional teams across the organization
Project management skills, with the ability to lead and coordinate complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
Embodies leadership behaviors, including authenticity, servant leadership, will, empathy, decisiveness, and driving focus and simplicity
The base compensation range for this position is $152,700 to $267,300. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the position's level or other company factors.
Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy, and parental leave policy.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.
Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.
If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.
Salary : $152,700 - $267,300