Diabetes Medical Manager

Novo Nordisk; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the pharmaceutical industry seeks a Diabetes Medical Manager to enhance scientific exchange and support diabetes therapy. The role requires a medical degree, strong leadership, and communication skills, along with significant experience in medical affairs and project management.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of industry or clinical experience in endocrinology and diabetes.
• Experience in research and real-world evidence generation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver medical and scientific knowledge through internal and external activities.
• Develop and manage Product Medical strategy and educational programs.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Project Management

Planning

Team Player

Self-Motivated

Education

Medical Degree

Job description

As a Diabetes Medical Manager, you will play an essential role within the Medical Affairs team and focus on furthering scientific exchange between the company and the medical community. Your main accountabilities will include:

1. Delivering medical and scientific knowledge through both internal and external activities.
2. Ensuring that Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), Medical Specialists, and other relevant stakeholders are kept aware and possess the adequate tools to support their fight against Diabetes and related therapeutic areas.
3. Developing & managing Product Medical strategy, delivering best-in-class scientific activities and educational programs, publication planning, and maintaining a regular voice within the UAE Medical Community.
4. Supporting and enforcing research activities from a medical standpoint with internal as well as external stakeholders.
5. Maintaining close cooperation and support in a cross-functional manner with our CMR, Market Access, Marketing, and Sales Teams, and managing field-based medical qualifications.

As our Diabetes Medical Manager, you need to have a medical degree (Medicine / Pharmacy / Dentistry), with experience in diabetes therapy areas within scientific and pharmaceutical understanding, along with business acumen. Ideally, you would have a minimum of 3 years in the medical affairs department. To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:

• Total minimum 5 years of industry or clinical experience relevant to the company's therapeutic interests in endocrinology and diabetes.
• Excellent leadership and communication skills, be a team player, ambitious, self-motivated, proactive, with excellent planning skills and a highly organized mindset.
• Previous experience with research and real-world evidence generation, experience in or exposure to product launch planning from a medical standpoint.
• Experience in project management with the ability to manage multiple ongoing projects and multitasking capabilities.
• Preferably a minimum of 1 year of experience in People Management or as a manager.
• Hands-on medical excellence, governance, and medical omnichannel experience is preferred.
• Excellent medical communication skills and fluency in English.

About the department:

CMRPV is a dynamic and diverse department consisting of highly qualified professionals responsible for conducting real-world evidence, interactions with medical professionals and regulatory authorities for current therapy areas such as Diabetes, Obesity, and Rare Diseases, as well as other related current and new therapy areas. Medical affairs are the core leaders in driving scientific exchange with healthcare professionals and serve as the bridge between relevant stakeholders, delivering insights across functions, ensuring medical compliance to meet Novo Nordisk's promise of improving patients’ lives.

Regulatory and PV (Pharmacovigilance) teams strive to ensure the best and fastest strategies for New Drug applications, maintain licenses to operate, and deliver PV excellence, audits, and inspection readiness.

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