About the Department
Our Commercial Strategy and Marketing 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 Early Product Asset Specialist plays a pivotal role in supporting the successful commercialization of early-stage pharmaceutical products. This role focuses on championing alignment across functions, collaborating closely with the clinical team, defining key performance indicators (KPIs), shaping lifecycle strategies, and establishing early commercialization strategies to maximize product potential. This role helps facilitate pull-through and continuity of knowledge from clinical development and early strategy phases to commercialization efforts to brand teams when the launch planning process starts It is essential to maximize asset value, drive early brand and GTM strategies. This role serves as a commercial point of contact for global commercial asset team prior to the start of the launch planning process, supporting early asset and early commercialization strategies and early market development activities.
Relationships
Reports to the Early Product Asset Owner. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, including marketing, medical, R&D, regulatory affairs, finance, NNI Global, Market Access (MAPA) and other relevant NNI departments to support development of early commercial strategies strategy. Steers pipeline working groups and early ‘One Impact’ Planning process and provides regular updates to the therapy areas. This role facilitates the successful pull-through of clinical insights, patient profiles, and strategic considerations into commercialization efforts as we start the launch process. This role may also serve as a liaison with global teams.
Essential Functions
- Early ‘One Impact’ Planning: Work with Asset Owner to foster early strategic alignment across cross-functional teams including marketing, market access, and medical teams and to ensure a cohesive approach to early product commercialization. Collaborate with global commercial teams and ensure input to the ‘One Impact Process’ across other key NNI stakeholders
- Early Commercialization Strategy: Contribute to early commercialization strategy development to maximize asset value and market penetration, leveraging global products and insights, insights from clinical trials, and market research. Collaborate with marketing, market access, and medical affairs teams to develop early brand positioning, priority customer segments, messaging, and go-to-market strategies and input into evidence generation plans before the product is transitioned to the launch team
- Market Assessment and Opportunity Analysis: Assist 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 support for clinical trial strategy, regulatory development, and the development of Target Product Profiles (TPPs) to ensure alignment with commercialization goals. Gather input from clinical and regulatory teams to understand clinical data / patient outcomes, identify market opportunities, address regulatory requirements, and help to shape product development strategies
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure early commercialization strategies comply with regulatory guidelines and industry standards, working closely with regulatory affairs teams to address any compliance-related issues
- Commercialization Transition: Support facilitation of the smooth transition of products from clinical development into commercialization at the time the launch planning process begins. Ensure continuity of market research and therapy area knowledge, decision processes, and early strategy from early development phases to commercialization efforts, maintaining alignment with overarching brand strategies
- Knowledge Transfer and Pull-Through: Assist in facilitating knowledge transfer between early commercial and marketing brand/therapy area teams, ensuring key insights, learnings, and strategic considerations are effectively communicated and incorporated into commercialization plans. Work with cross-functional teams to pull through clinical insights, patient profiles, and early competitive positioning strategies into launch commercialization efforts to maximize product potential
- Project Management and Coordination Support: Assist project management efforts to coordinate transition between clinical development and commercialization teams, ensuring milestones are met. Identify and flag 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: Aid 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; may substitute experience for degree
- 6+ years of experience, including early commercialization, product management, or related roles within the pharmaceutical industry
- Demonstrated success in early commercial planning, launching, and managing products
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical regulatory requirements and experience interacting with regulatory agencies
- Proven knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry, including competitive market dynamics, and trends, especially within <diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular diseases, renal diseases, liver diseases, emerging therapy areas> 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
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with ability to 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
- Embodies leadership behaviors, including authenticity, servant leadership, will, empathy, decisiveness, and driving focus and simplicity
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.
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.
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