Regional Medical Advisor

Job Description

Are you an experienced medical professional and passionate about Medical Affairs? Does being part of a growing, yet dynamic environment excite you? Are you adept in implementing the medical affairs strategy in the country? If yes, then you may be the one we are looking for as Regional Medical Advisor for Novo Nordisk Saudi Arabia.

This position will be based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and reports directly to the Medical Manager.

Apply now and join Novo Nordisk and enjoy a life-changing career!

The Position

As a Regional Medical Advisor, you will be responsible for providing regional medical and scientific support for doctors, other healthcare professionals, and colleagues in support of business opportunities and strategic objectives taking into account short-, medium-, and long-term local business needs in the cardiovascular diseases area.

To establish leadership in the Cardiovascular area and access to Novo Nordisk (NN) products in Saudi Arabia through providing quality medical and scientific support to clinicians (mainly influencers), and other healthcare professionals (HCPs – nurses, pharmacists, etc.) 

The main outcome of the job is to ensure KOLs, and specialists are aware of and understand the scientific basis for and clinical usefulness of our compounds within cardiovascular diseases.

Key Accountabilities:

• Build and update scientific and medical knowledge about the entire portfolio of Novo Nordisk products, dedicating time to searching for relevant information about new developments and competitors’ products.
• Apply and disseminate knowledge and use of scientific/clinical expertise with internal and external stakeholders as a result of a comprehensive analysis of their needs, aiming to improve overall patient outcomes.
• Identify, list, and communicate with KOLs and HCPs in the practice setting (e.g., academic centres, investigators, ISSs research site) to update their understanding of relevant data in each context, as well as to build and maintain relationships to facilitate scientific exchange.
• Develop professional relationships with key internal stakeholders and external one to anticipate their needs and provide them with value-adding solutions involving Novo Nordisk products.
• Help to coordinate POA meetings and internal training for internal stakeholders, ensuring successful implementation.

Qualifications

We require you to have 1-2 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry in the medical affairs department. It’s expected to hold a bachelor’s degree in Pharmacy or Medicine. You have excellent command over both written and spoken English and Arabic, and a willingness to travel inside Saudi Arabia.

To be effective in this role, it is mandatory to have:

• Computer skills required (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Windows).
• Experience in dealing with stakeholders.
• Strong communication skills and interpersonal skills, including presentation, persuasion, and influence.
• Experience in Cardiovascular diseases is preferable.

About the Department

In Novo Nordisk, we, the medical department aim to improve patients’ lives by being a leading strategic partner in the generation, interpretation & communication of scientific data with relevant stakeholders, while ensuring full compliance in all our internal and external activities. We work closely with cross-functional teams to support our business growth needs in a continuously changing environment. Such a striving environment needs a partner that is willing to work in a team, building a future where every life counts by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, and expanding to new therapy areas to prevent and ultimately cure serious chronic diseases. Join us and make a difference.

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our careers is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.

Contact

To submit your application, please upload your CV (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline 

Apply before February 23, 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.