Associate Director, Obesity Health Equity

2 weeks ago

Bagsværd, Denmark Novo Nordisk Full time

   

Are you passionate about health equity? Can you make a difference by designing access and affordability strategies and solutions for a leading healthcare company? Are you ready to play a key role in ensuring that social responsibility is embedded throughout Novo Nordisk’s work in obesity?   
If so, this is your chance as we are looking for an Associate Director to join our Obesity Health Equity team.  

 
Start your application for a life-changing career 

 

The position 

The position is focused on addressing the issue of health inequity in obesity and helping to design effective strategies to support access to care and affordability of treatment for vulnerable people living with obesity. The role will specifically look at strategies to reach vulnerable populations, including those with the highest unmet medical needs and low socio-economic status. As Associate Director, Obesity Health Equity you will engage with external partners to explore barriers related to equitable access to holistic care and treatment for obesity, for example international health organizations, health professional associations, patient organizations and academia.  to design meaningful research, develop impactful strategies and execute on roadmaps. 

 
Internally, you work collaboratively with other parts of the organization to ensure that health equity and questions related to access and affordability are considered throughout the value chain, from research and development to market access and operations. For example, this will involve hands-on contributions to cross-functional efforts to identify how Novo Nordisk can reach vulnerable people with obesity, explore how different access pathways can help improve health equity and provide concrete sparring and guidance to launch markets.. 

  

Some of the responsibilities that you will find:  

  • Lead the implementation of the access and affordability components of Novo Nordisk’s social responsibility work in obesity, including collaborating with internal stakeholders to embed and advance equity considerations in cross-functional agendas. 
  • Ensure operational excellence in the implementation of the access and affordability components of Novo Nordisk’s social responsibility work in obesity across the organization, including support to affiliates. 
  • Develop and maintain partnerships with external stakeholders, including representing Novo Nordisk on a global scale. 
  • Establish Novo Nordisk as a corporate leader in addressing access and affordability issues related to obesity. 

 

Qualifications  

  • A master’s degree in business administration, health economics, or public health. 
  • Solid understanding and experience of market access and affordability strategies in the healthcare industry 
  • Proven project management leadership skills 
  • Ability to develop new business models and solutions to address strategic problems, with a focus on strategy execution. 
  • Global project management and stakeholder management experience.  

 

As a person, you are driven by a passion for health equity, possessing strong stakeholder management skills to collaborate with external partners and expert organizations. Your expertise in market access and affordability, coupled with a solid understanding of building equity, enables you to establish new business models and lead strategic initiatives to address access and affordability challenges.  

 

About the Department  

Based in Bagsværd, Global Public Affairs & Sustainability (GPAS) is a global team of 100 people in five areas: Global Health Equity, Climate Change and health, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Global Public Affairs and Patient Relations, and ESG Strategy & Intelligence. The Global Health Equity team is responsible for Novo Nordisk’s social responsibility strategy, driving Novo Nordisk’s efforts in prevention, access, and affordability.  

 

The department consists of an Obesity Health Equity team and a Diabetes Health Equity team. The Obesity Health Equity team is responsible for Novo Nordisk’s partnerships and programs on childhood obesity, urban health, and access to holistic obesity care. We work with international organizations, NGOs, and other partners, with a focus on vulnerable populations and low-resource settings. 

 

Contact  

For further information, please contact Jo Jewell, Director of Obesity Health Equity, at jjwl@novonordisk.com   

 

Deadline 

Please apply before 20th November. 

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV.  

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. 

 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world.  

We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing. 

 

 

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.

 

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