Regional Medical Advisor - East Midlands

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Regional Medical Advisor - East Midlands, Leicester

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29.04.2025

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13.06.2025

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Job Description:

Are you a passionate medical or scientific professional with outstanding communication skills and a personality that builds trust and inspires collaboration? Do you thrive in a dynamic, science-driven environment where your ability to engage, educate, and connect with others truly makes a difference?

Join us as a Regional Medical Advisor and bring your voice, your expertise, and your energy to a company dedicated to improving patient outcomes and driving meaningful change in healthcare.

The position

As a Regional Medical Advisor (RMA) for metabolic diseases covering the East Midlands, you will lead the development and delivery of local and regional medical advisory services to support business goals. You’ll serve as a trusted medical expert to healthcare professionals, ensuring they understand the science and clinical value of our treatments. The role involves driving medical education, supporting strategic initiatives, and collaborating cross-functionally to ensure alignment across teams.

Your key responsibilities will be:

• Gather and share medical insights and competitor intelligence to inform Medical Affairs strategy and cross-functional projects, both locally and internationally
• Support clinical research activities, including trial site identification, Investigator Sponsored Studies, and local phase IV studies from setup to publication
• Build trusted relationships with HCPs and institutions, deliver high-quality medical education, facilitate advisory boards, and respond to medical inquiries
• Collaborate with healthcare systems and associations to co-create solutions that improve patient outcomes and optimize clinical care pathways
• Train colleagues, lead scientific events, support promotional meetings, and contribute to medico-marketing strategy and expert speaker engagement

Qualifications

• Medical, Ph.D. or Pharmacy qualification; post-graduate medical qualifications are a plus
• Strong clinical and / or scientific expertise, ideally with experience in the pharmaceutical industry and metabolic therapy areas
• Excellent communication, networking and presentation skills with the ability to simplify complex science
• ABPI Medical Representative Examination completed or willingness to obtain certification
• Solid understanding of the ABPI Code of Practice and promotional regulations
• Knowledge of UK healthcare systems, Good Clinical Practice (GCP), and drug development processes
• Adaptable, proactive, and confident managing complexity in a fast-paced environment
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and fluent in written and spoken English

About the department

You will be an active member of the UK Medical Affairs team, contributing to the execution of our medical affairs strategy. Based in the UK, our department is committed to delivering high-quality medical affairs strategies aligned with Novo Nordisk’s objectives. We foster a collaborative and inspiring atmosphere, working closely with departments across the business. Our team is dedicated to ensuring compliance with ABPI code as well as company quality systems and procedures.

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

Application support

We are an equal opportunities employer, and we commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. If you're a person with a disability, if you're neurodivergent, and need any adjustments to be made during the application and selection process, please send an email to [emailprotected] . Please include your name, the role you are interested in and the type of adjustment your need

Contact

If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your motivation letter, CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool.

Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by 11th May 2025.

Please note that we are reviewing applications on ongoing basis, therefore the position will be filled as soon as the successful candidate has been found.

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.