Medical Affairs Job at Novo Nordisk
A rare chance to join Novo Nordisk for this Medical Affairs Job in Bangalore, Karnataka. This role offers an opportunity to shape medical insights that drive strategy across therapy areas, ensuring that evidence reaches patients worldwide.
About Novo Nordisk:
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company focused on defeating serious chronic diseases. With a commitment to innovation and a legacy that spans over 100 years, the company operates in the pharmaceutical sector, primarily developing treatments for diabetes, obesity, and other serious health conditions. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk emphasizes a culture of inclusivity and shared purpose, striving to create lasting change in healthcare.
Job details:
- Category: Medical Affairs
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, IN
- Team: Global Medical Affairs, Product & Portfolio Strategy
Job description
As the Medical Excellence Lead in Global Medical Affairs, the successful candidate will be the driving force behind insights-driven decision-making across all Therapy Areas. This role combines strategic thinking with operational rigor, designing frameworks, processes, and governance to ensure medical insights are collected, synthesized, prioritized, and translated into strategy, action, and measurable impact. The position serves as a central connector between Global and Worldwide Medical Affairs, aligning insights across regions and integrating them into medical plans.
Key responsibilities:
- Drive insights-based decision-making
- Establish and lead the Global Medical Affairs insights-to-action framework in collaboration with Therapy Area Medical teams, defining common principles, processes, tools, and governance for insights generation and use.
- Facilitate evidence-based prioritization of strategic questions, opportunities, and medical activities — and ensure visibility of key insights and actions at GMA leadership level.
- Develop insights themes and strategic questions
- Partner with Global Therapy Area teams to define key insights themes and questions aligned with medical strategy, patient needs, healthcare-system priorities, and the product lifecycle.
- Identify emerging trends, evidence gaps, unmet needs, and shifts in the external environment that may affect medical strategy.
- Integrate insights into medical strategy and planning
- Design processes to ensure insights are systematically reviewed and incorporated into Global Medical Affairs strategies, medical plans, and evidence-generation priorities.
- Support lifecycle planning, launch preparation, indication strategy, and ongoing strategy refinement through relevant insights synthesis.
- Enable Global–Regional alignment
- Establish effective two-way communication mechanisms between Global and Regions, ensuring regional insights inform global strategy and global priorities are understood and applied consistently.
- Build a connected community of practice for Medical Affairs insights generation and utilization across markets.
- Track actions, decisions, and impact
- Develop dashboards and tracking mechanisms for priority insights, decisions, actions, milestones, and outcomes. Define and track metrics that demonstrate the quality, timeliness, adoption, and impact of insights-driven decision-making.
- Build capabilities and embed ways of working
- Assess insights-management capabilities across Global and Worldwide Medical Affairs, and develop training, guidance, and practical tools to raise the bar.
- Coach teams on insights collection, synthesis, interpretation, strategic storytelling, and translation into action.
- Support compliant and high-quality execution
- Ensure insights-generation and engagement processes are aligned with applicable company policies, industry codes, privacy requirements, and compliance standards.
- Your new department
In Product & Portfolio Strategy, Novo Nordisk drives commercial strategy, medical affairs, and business development across all therapy areas. The Global Medical Affairs team operates across Therapy Areas to ensure that medical strategy is grounded in evidence, shaped by insights, and connected to patient needs.
Eligibility requirements for this Medical Affairs Job:
The ideal candidate will be a strategic and analytical Medical Affairs professional with:
- MBBS, MD, PhD, or relevant Master’s Degree in Pharmacy or Life Sciences.
- 6+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, preferably in a global or regional pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or healthcare environment.
- Demonstrated experience in medical strategy, insights generation, stakeholder engagement, evidence synthesis, or Medical Affairs operations.
- Strong understanding of the pharmaceutical product lifecycle and the role of Medical Affairs.
- Familiarity with insights-management platforms, analytics, data visualization, or structured knowledge-management approaches.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, synthesis, and strategic storytelling skills.
- High level of scientific judgment, business awareness, adaptability, and accountability.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
Skills Required for this Medical Affairs Job:
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent project management abilities.
- Proficiency in data analysis and interpretation.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a cross-functional team environment.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in relevant software and tools for insights management.
- Ability to communicate complex information clearly and effectively.
Deadline: 25 September 2026
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.
