Obesity Medical Lead

Are you passionate about working on and advancing medical affairs?

Do you have the expertise and skills to lead a team of top tier medical professionals?

If so, we invite you to join our team as an Obesity Medical Lead at Novo Nordisk, Kfar Saba! Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As our Obesity Medical Lead, you will be responsible for the medical strategy and activities in the obesity therapeutic area, while leading a highly qualified team of Medical Science Liaisons (MSLs) and Medical Advisors to fulfil strategic priorities for the affiliate.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Leading the creation and implementation of short, medium and long term medical strategies aligned with the business strategy.
• Leading Medical Advisors and MSLs’ successful execution of the short and long term medical plan.
• Ensuring Medical Advisors’ and MSLs’ high level scientific dialogue and collaboration with the medical community around Novo Nordisk’s current and future portfolio, focusing on the leading key opinion leaders in the field of Obesity.
• Supporting market access strategy and its execution for obesity related products.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you must have excellent communication and relationship-building skills, combined with strong understanding of medical affairs core principles in a pharma company.

Additionally, you should:

• Have at least 1 year of team management experience.
• Have a minimum of 3 years experience within the pharma industry medical departments.
• Advanced degree in medicine or a related field: MD, PhD, DVM, PharmD or DMD.
• Strategic and analytical mindset.
• Excellent communication, negotiation skills and a developed emotional intelligence.
• Dual experience as an MSL and Medical Advisor or Medical Manager – an advantage.
• Be fluent in English and Hebrew – verbal and written.

About the Department

You will join our dynamic team based in Kfar Saba, where we focus on bridging the gap between science and patient care through innovative medical strategies and collaborations. Our Medical Affairs department is committed to ensuring the highest standards of scientific rigor, clinical insights, and compliance, playing a pivotal role in the lifecycle management of our pharmaceutical products. By engaging with healthcare professionals and organizations, internal teams and regulatory bodies, we aim to drive meaningful improvements in therapeutic outcomes.

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, medical affairs, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

Please submit your application in English online through the career site.

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.