Senior Manager, Digital Opinion Leaders

Novo Nordisk A/S; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk A/S in Riyadh seeks a Senior Manager, Digital Opinion Leaders to shape the affiliate's engagement strategy within Medical Affairs. You will identify physicians and healthcare providers with credible digital influence and translate science into accessible education for professionals and the public.

You will collaborate across Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Communications and Marketing to build scalable digital programs, ensure scientific accuracy, and support disease

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy or Medicine or related health science.
• 3–5 years in Medical Affairs or related field in pharma/healthcare.
• Experience engaging with physicians, Key Opinion Leaders or Digital Opinion Leaders.
• Experience supporting medical education or consumer education initiatives.
• Fluency in Arabic and English; ability to adapt content for both audiences.
• Strong scientific communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify and map Digital Opinion Leaders and healthcare professionals with credible digital presence.
• Develop and execute digital medical communication plans across channels.
• Translate complex topics into accessible, non-promotional content for the public.
• Capture insights to inform Medical Affairs planning and education strategies.
• Support medical education initiatives through webinars, digital forums and platforms.
• Build relationships with external partners and internal stakeholders across functions.
• Establish scalable operating model for Digital Opinion Leader engagement.

Skills

Digital engagement

Stakeholder management

Medical communications

Content adaptation

Bilingual Arabic/English

Education

Pharmacy or Medicine degree

Advanced life sciences degree

Job description

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Your impact begins here

As Senior Manager, Digital Opinion Leaders, you will build and lead the affiliate's Digital Opinion Leader engagement strategy within Medical Affairs. You will identify and partner with physicians and healthcare providers who have credible digital influence, helping translate complex science into accessible, evidence-based education that reaches both healthcare professionals and the public. Working at the intersection of medical affairs, digital communication and stakeholder engagement, you will shape how accurate health information is shared across Arabic- and English-speaking audiences — creating progress for people living with serious chronic diseases.

What you'll bring

• A degree in Pharmacy, Medicine or another relevant health science discipline.
• Minimum 3–5 years of relevant experience in Medical Affairs or a related field within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical communications, medical education, digital health or HCP engagement environment.
• Experience engaging with physicians, healthcare providers, Key Opinion Leaders and/or Digital Opinion Leaders.
• Experience supporting medical or scientific communication, medical education, disease awareness or consumer education initiatives.
• Familiarity with digital platforms and their use in healthcare communication, public education and HCP engagement.
• Fluency in Arabic and English, with the ability to review, adapt and communicate medical and scientific content accurately in both languages.
• Strong scientific communication skills and the ability to deliver clear, accurate and balanced medical messages to diverse audiences.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills and the ability to work effectively with Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Communications and Marketing teams.
• Sound judgement, professionalism and comfort working on externally visible and compliance-sensitive activities.

Useful, but not essential:

• PharmD, MD/MBBS, MSc, PhD, MPH or other advanced degree in life sciences or healthcare.
• Prior Medical Affairs experience, particularly in scientific communication, external expert engagement or medical education.
• Prior pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Experience working with agencies, content partners or digital production teams.

What you'll do

• Identify, map and priorities Digital Opinion Leaders and healthcare professionals with strong scientific credibility and relevant digital presence, and establish professional relationships that support evidence-based medical and consumer education.
• Develop and execute digital medical communication plans that enhance the reach and relevance of medical education across digital channels, while maintaining scientific accuracy and compliance.
• Partner with Digital Opinion Leaders to translate complex medical and scientific topics into accessible, responsible and non-promotional educational content for the public, including videos, webinars, podcasts, articles and disease awareness materials.
• Capture insights from Digital Opinion Leaders, Key Opinion Leaders and digital healthcare conversations to inform Medical Affairs planning, identify unmet educational needs and support scientific communication strategy.
• Support the development and delivery of medical education initiatives for healthcare professionals through scientific meetings, webinars, digital forums and educational platforms.
• Build and maintain strategic relationships with external partners, professional associations, agencies and internal stakeholders across Medical, Regulatory, Legal, Compliance, Communications and Marketing.
• Establish clear ways of working for Digital Opinion Leader identification, engagement, content review, approvals and governance — supporting a scalable operating model for the future function.

Who you'll work with

You will report directly to the Affiliate Medical Director and work as part of the Medical Affairs team in Riyadh. This is a newly established role, and you will have a high degree of independence in shaping how the function operates and grows.

Internally, your closest partners will include colleagues across Regulatory Affairs, Legal and Compliance, Marketing and Commercial, Communications and patient support programme teams. Externally, you will build relationships with Digital Opinion Leaders, Key Opinion Leaders, physicians, healthcare professional associations, medical education partners and digital content agencies.

The role sits at the centre of medical affairs and digital engagement — bringing different perspectives together to ensure that what reaches the public and healthcare professionals is credible, compliant and impactful.

What you can expect here

You will work in an environment where your scientific expertise and digital capability are valued and where you are trusted to take ownership of a function from the ground up. The role offers the opportunity to shape something new — building ways of working, stakeholder relationships and an operating model that can scale.

You will be supported to grow through practical experience, cross-functional collaboration and exposure to the evolving digital healthcare landscape. You will be encouraged to contribute your perspective, challenge convention where it helps, and bring curiosity to how medical information is shared and consumed.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

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