Are you motivated by driving innovation for the life-changing benefit of patients? Are you ready to help transform the treatment paradigm for obesity that currently increased its awareness globally? Then this is your moment. Apply now and join us as the Obesity New TA Insight Lead . Together we can make it happen.

About the department

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 63,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 170 countries.

You will be part of the Obesity Business Unit, located in our Seoul office. Our team is devoted in making a difference in the lives of patients with Obesity. The atmosphere is fast-paced and dynamic, with a strong focus on collaboration and innovation.

The position

The Obesity New TA Insight Lead is responsible for evaluating and prioritizing growth opportunities within the obesity portfolio, managing market research for new therapeutic area development, and providing competitive intelligence. Serving as the primary contact for market prognosis and forecasting, the role requires close collaboration with cross-functional teams, including medical, regulatory, and commercial, to deliver actionable insights. Success in this position demands strong market and medical knowledge, strategic thinking, and excellent communication skills to effectively engage with internal and external stakeholders. Reporting directly to the Obesity BU Head, the ideal candidate should have expertise in market research, analytics, and strategic planning.

Other role expectations are as follows:

• Lead market prognosis and opportunity assessments for new therapeutic areas under the obesity brand, including launch strategy, go-to-market planning, competitive analysis, unmet need evaluation, and proposing optimal commercial models aligned with obesity BU priorities.
• Lead cross-functional collaboration by aligning with the regulatory team for updates and working closely with HQ, regional, and local stakeholders to ensure seamless coordination.
• Provide insights from a variety of sources and develop strategic guidance for brand teams that result in a business decision or action
• Identify key issues/ opportunities by monitoring the trends and research for commercial execution, and be able to validate in-depth knowledge of market size/dynamics, treatment pathway, competitive landscape, payer landscape, and unmet needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including for example marketing, sales, to provide actionable strategic insights and consensus for competitive action plans. Additionally, be able to lead the forecasting and planning process based on scenarios

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years of marketing/strategy consulting/ market research/analytic experience in the pharmaceutical industry are required and a total 10-15 years of experiences will be highly preferred.
• Graduate level degree, i.e., B.A. and/or above is required, with a proven track records in global multi-national pharma companies.
• Fluency in both written and spoken English is essential
• Proven experience in qualitative and quantitative research methodologies
• Strong analytical and strategic marketing skills as well as demonstrated ability to learn new disease areas

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – 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’re all here - to ensure that people can live a life of chronic disease.

Contact

Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline

Until the completion of recruitment.

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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