Medical Project Assistant

Zealand Pharma U.S., Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Part time

Job summary

Zealand Pharma U.S., Inc. seeks a part-time Medical Project Assistant to provide administrative and logistical support to senior leaders across US and Global Medical Affairs.

The role emphasizes managing calendars across time zones, expense reporting in Coupa, coordinating team meetings, and turning rough ideas into polished PowerPoint materials. The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and capable of handling competing priorities with minimal supervision, with 3–5 years in an admin

Qualifications

• BSc/BA in any field.
• 3–5 years in an administrative or executive assistant role, supporting multiple senior leaders.
• Experience with expense management systems; Coupa is advantageous.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint to turn rough notes into polished slides.
• Excellent calendar management across multiple time zones.

Responsibilities

• Manage complex calendars for multiple senior leaders in the US and across time zones.
• Prepare and submit expense reports in Coupa accurately and timely.
• Plan logistics for internal meetings, including scheduling, agendas, and travel arrangements.
• Build PowerPoint presentations from leadership notes for a polished final product.
• Coordinate schedules and priorities, flag conflicts and time-sensitive items.

Skills

PowerPoint

Calendar management

Communication skills

Time-zone coordination

Organization

Education

BSc/BA in any field

Tools

Coupa

Job description

Your new position (Part Time Role @ 20-25 hrs/week)

As our new Medical Project Assistant, you will provide dedicated administrative and logistical support to senior leaders across US and Global Medical Affairs. The role is central to keeping the leadership team organized and efficient: managing complex calendars across multiple time zones, handling expense reporting, coordinating team meetings, and turning rough ideas into polished PowerPoint materials. This is a great opportunity for someone who is highly organized, self-driven, and energized by supporting a busy, high-performing team.

We offer exciting responsibilities:

• Manage complex, frequently changing calendars for multiple senior leaders in the US and Europe, coordinating meetings and travel logistics across time zones
• Prepare and submit expense reports in Coupa, ensuring receipts are accurately captured and reports are submitted in a timely, compliant manner
• Plan and coordinate logistics for internal team and department meetings, including scheduling, agendas, materials distribution, and bookings for lodging, flights, or dinner reservations as requested
• Build PowerPoint presentations from leadership's rough notes, outlines, and verbal direction, ensuring a polished and professional final product
• Serve as a point of coordination between multiple leaders' schedules and priorities, proactively flagging conflicts and time-sensitive items

Your profile

• The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing competing priorities for multiple stakeholders with minimal supervision.
• Strong judgment, discretion with sensitive information, and clear communication are essential, as is the flexibility to adapt quickly as priorities shift.
• BSc/BA in any field
• At least 3-5 years of experience in an administrative or executive assistant role, ideally supporting multiple senior leaders
• Experience with expense management systems; Coupa experience is advantageous but not required
• Proficiency in PowerPoint, with the ability to turn rough notes into clean, professional slides
• Strong calendar management and scheduling skills across multiple time zones
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable liaising with senior leadership

Your new team

You will report to the VP of US Medical Affairs and provide support to the VP of US Medical Affairs, the VP of Global Medical Affairs, and the SVP Senior Medical Advisor. You will be a key enabler of the Medical Affairs leadership team's day-to-day effectiveness, working closely with leaders and their teams to keep operations running smoothly.

Let's bond and be bold

We have a unique culture, characterized by excellent teamwork and strong engagement across the organization. And we want you to help us strengthen this culture.

Making bonds is at the core of everything we do. From discovering and developing the best new peptide drugs for patients, to engaging with our partners or connecting with each other.

We bond through curiosity and playfulness as a team, allowing ourselves to challenge common thinking and drive future innovation.

Join us and let's bond and be bold.

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and welcome applications from all job applicants.

About Zealand Pharma A/S

Zealand Pharma A/S (Nasdaq: ZEAL) is a biotechnology company focused on advancing medicines for obesity and metabolic health. Combining more than 25 years of peptide R&D expertise with a proprietary data platform that leverages advanced data-driven and AI/ML approaches, Zealand Pharma aims to lead a new era in obesity and metabolic health. To date, more than ten Zealand Pharma-invented drug candidates have entered clinical development, of which two products have reached the market and three candidates are in late-stage development.

The Company has collaborations with global pharmaceutical and biotechnology partners for research, development, and commercialization. Founded in 1998, Zealand Pharma is headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a U.S. presence in Boston, Massachusetts. Learn more at www.zealandpharma.com.

Since our founding in 1998, Zealand Pharma has built a core expertise in the discovery, design, and development of therapeutic peptides. This expertise has led to an R&D pipeline of innovative investigational candidates designed to address a broad range of disease areas.

We have four therapeutic focus areas: obesity, rare diseases, chronic inflammation, and type 1 diabetes. In obesity, our peptide capabilities place us in a unique position to address a vast global health challenge and positively impact hundreds of millions of lives.

Within rare diseases, we have a long-standing commitment to deliver new treatments to patients living with congenital hyperinsulinism and short bowel syndrome.

For chronic inflammatory diseases, we are progressing peptide programs focused on high-profile targets shown to be difficult to address with small molecules and antibodies.

For type 1 diabetes, we aspire to change the management of this disease. Our strategy is to pursue global co-development and commercialization partnerships that complement and extend our capabilities across the value chain to deliver new peptide therapies to people who need them.