Director, Market Access

Pricing & Market Access

Ørestad, Denmark

Market access is about pushing boundaries. This is more than a role, it's an opportunity to be part of our unwavering commitment to drive change, creating impact today while shaping the future of patient care.

Your new role

As the Market Access Director for Region EUCAN, Obesity & MASH within the Pricing & Market Access department, you will be sitting at the intersection of strategy, innovation, and patient affordability, going beyond traditional pricing and reimbursement to redefine how access is created across diverse payer systems.

This is a unique opportunity to shape market access at scale for some of the most transformative therapies in obesity and liver diseases. With broad regional influence across EUCAN stakeholders and high-visibility assets, you'll set new standards for cross-sector collaboration ensuring sustainable access.

Your main responsibilities include:

Leading and executing the Region EUCAN Market Access strategy for the Obesity and MASH portfolios, ensuring alignment across markets and functions
Designing and implementing innovative out-of-pocket and affordability strategies to enable sustainable access for key assets
Developing tailored access approaches across public payers, private insurers, employer-sponsored plans, and self-pay channels, adapting to diverse healthcare systems
Shaping pricing and contracting frameworks, including outcomes-based agreements and novel public–private access models
Driving evidence generation initiatives (e.g. RWE studies and pilots) to demonstrate value and support reimbursement decisions
Engaging senior stakeholders to influence coverage and benefit design
Providing senior-level leadership and cross-functional coordination across Region EUCAN to maximize both patient impact and commercial value.

Your new department

The Region EUCAN Market Access, Obesity & MASH team develops and implements reimbursement, access and commercial strategies to ensure patients living with obesity and liver diseases can benefit from our therapies. Aligned with our purpose to improve patients' lives, the team drives clinical, evidence and stakeholder initiatives, and engages colleagues across the organisation to lead change and secure sustainable access.

You will join Pricing & Market Access, where we support our stakeholders to solve various business challenges related to medicine pricing and affordability across various geographies across Region EUCAN.

Your Skills And Qualifications

We are seeking a strategic, driven leader who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. You excel in collaboration, influence diverse stakeholders with confidence, and maintain focus while balancing long-term vision with execution. You combine a strong value- and patient-centric mindset with everything you do. Also, you bring with you:

Adegree (M.Sc. or PhD) in Health Economics, Public Health, Business Administration, or a related field, with senior-level experience in pharmaceutical or biotech market access across multiple European and Canadian markets.
Deep expertise in international market access, with a proven track record of securing reimbursement and formulary access for high-value therapies
Strong capabilities in health economics, HEOR and RWE, with the ability to translate evidence into compelling payer value propositions
Demonstrated experience with complex pricing, contracting, and out-of-pocket strategies
Proven ability to lead and influence in matrix organizations, collaborating effectively across functions and geographies
Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with fluency in spoken and written English and confidence engaging senior stakeholders

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination, and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years, this mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What We Offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Deadline

19 February 2026.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

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