Job Description

Department: Global Medical Affairs.

Are you a postgraduate in Pharmacy/ life science/biomedical research with a PhD willing to be a credible and valued scientific expert of the organization to interact with key stakeholders across their regions / products / therapy areas? Do you enjoy collaborating with peers in the medical field, interpreting and communicating scientific data? Does interacting with global medical leaders interest you? Then we have an opportunity for you within our Global Medical Affairs department. Apply now and join a growing team, working in an international environment.

The position

The Associate Global Scientific Advisor (AGSA) is expected to be able to work independently according to Novo Nordisk Standard Operating Procedures and Global Medical Affairs strategy. The Associate GSA strives to be the specialist on the product/project within his/her responsibility. The Associate GSA is responsible for ensuring the timely, accurate and credible scientific and medical knowledge within assigned deliverables. He/she independently prepares scientific content (slide decks, Q&A documents and others) for medical education events and medical guidance projects. The associate GSA also reviews the documents to ensure alignment with quality and business ethics SOPs. The focus is especially to provide scientific support for key opinion leaders (KOLs) engagement and other healthcare professionals (HCPs - nurses, pharmacists, etc) on a product/project specific basis. Moreover, the Associate GSA acts as a liaison between Novo Nordisk and KOLs at meetings and conferences.

• The management aspect of this job is to ensure effective cross-functional collaboration and consistent communication between global medical affairs team, project manager and medical illustrator.
• End-to-end support for all the activities across medical affairs focus areas.
• Support medical affairs teams in the development and execution of scientific communication during high quality global meetings (e.g., scientific expert meetings, congress symposia etc.).
• Support global medical affairs teams in development of communication materials based on accurate scientific data.

Qualifications

• M. Pharm/PharmD/PhD with substantial clinical and/or research expertise in relevant area.
• 1-2 years of pharmaceutical industry experience or fresher with PhD and substantial clinical research/academic experience
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry.
• Fluency in both spoken and written English.
• Demonstrated research experience (e.g. publications, presentations in conferences).
• Additional education and experience in medical communication.
• Study or work in a country other than the native country.
• Experience with clinical medicine, clinical research and development.

About the department

Global Medical Affairs, GBS is an extension of the Global Medical Affairs, headquartered in Denmark (HQ), and is part of Global Business Services (GBS), Bangalore, India. The team consists of highly motivated global medical advisors, global scientific advisors (medical writers), project managers, graphic designers and publication managers working together with the Global Medical Affairs department in S\xc3\xb8borg, Denmark, the regional CMR departments, and the Medical Affairs department in the US affiliate of the company. Our core competencies include communicating scientific and medical knowledge on our products to the external scientific community and across the organisation, in-house content development, project management and publication planning for external medical events.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We\xe2\x80\x99re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things \xe2\x80\x93 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\xe2\x80\x99re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

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Deadline

15th September, 2023.

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\xe2\x80\x99re life changing.

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