Global Market Access Graduate

Global Market Access Graduate: Kick-start your life-changing career

Are you a master’s student with an interest in market access? Be a part of Novo Nordisk’s growth journey and accelerate your own. Turn your degree into a global career at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies

About the Global Market Access Graduate Programme 

The full-time position as a Global Market Access Graduate, gives you an opportunity to ensure that people living with serious chronic diseases have access to Novo Nordisk treatments. Health economics modelling, pricinganalytics, payer evidence generation, reimbursement submissions and market access strategy development are just a few of the tasks we perform in this high growth area.

As you embark on your life-changing career in Novo Nordisk, we will provide you with:

• Broad experience and invaluable technical skills within market access
• Accelerated personal and professional development from day one
• International professional experience and networking with world-class colleagues
• Vast exposure and the opportunity to establish yourself as one of tomorrow’s key people in market access at Novo Nordisk

The position 

During the two-year programme you will embark on three challenging and exciting rotations, each lasting eight months. These rotations will take place in our corporate headquarters in Denmark, as well as in our international regional and affiliate offices. 

Throughout the programme, you will have the opportunity to work as a fully-fledged member in three different teams, gaining invaluable experience and developing as a market access specialist. You will be exposed to the three specialisations of market access, including pricing, payer evidence, and health economics. During the first rotation at our headquarters in Denmark, you will gain hands-on market access learning and receive a comprehensive introduction to corporate life, the Global Market Access teams, and functional deliverables across the value chain.

In your second rotation, at one of our international affiliates or regional offices, you will gain local payer insights and be exposed to areas like pricing business case development, health economic modelling, reimbursement submissions, or payer evidence generation.

In your third and final rotation, you will have the opportunity to further build your technical capabilities of market access at the regional or affiliate office.

As part of this graduate programme, we encourage candidates to consider continuing their career in one of our operational offices post-programme to further build a strong market access profile.

Qualifications 

To thrive and succeed as a Global Market Access Graduate, we expect you to have: 

• A master’s degree from 2024 or 2025 in a relevant field, such as, health economics, public health, outcomes research or other business and finance-related fields– and above-average academic achievements 
• International outlook and experience, for example from studying abroad, working or volunteering outside your home country 
• Approximately one year of relevant market access work experience or extracurricular activities next to your studies
• No more than 1 year of full-time work experience between or after completing a master’s degree
• A passion for market access, high drive, eagerness to learn and ability to adapt quickly to change 
• Team-player attitude and excellent communication skills 
• Professional fluency in English and global mobility

If you meet the criteria and are interested in joining the programme with start-up date 1 September 2025, please make sure to submit your application no later than 30 November 2024 GMT+1.

Important: upload this when you apply 

Before clicking the apply button, please ensure you have uploaded your CV (please upload under “resume”), cover letter and most recent academic records (upload these two documents as one file under “cover letter”) in English. Applications without these uploads will not be considered.

In the cover letter we expect to learn more about your motivation for wanting to join Novo Nordisk and the Graduate Programme, as well as your personal and professional competencies. Hence, make sure you include:

• What are your expectations from the graduate programme, and how will it support your career aspirations?
• Please describe what particularly intrigues you about this specific graduate track – Global Market Access - and why you have decided to apply for it? 
• What team characteristics do you value, and what three qualities do you believe others appreciate about you? 
• Define innovation in the context of market access, in your opinion
• Share a specific example of solving a challenging market access-related task in previous work or projects. Provide details about the problem and your solution

The cover letter must not exceed one page.

You can apply from any device but as you will be asked to answer several questions on the application page, we recommend applying from a PC instead of a mobile phone.

About the Graduate Programme

Our Global Graduate Programme is designed to bring together change makers with a diversity of perspectives and equip them with the tools needed to accelerate their personal and professional development. The two-year programme allows you to explore the world while developing your career. You will be taken on three rotations around the globe where you will work in a fast-paced environment and grow in ways you never could have imagined. You will be exposed to the entire Novo Nordisk value chain while being challenged to explore your boundaries and reach your full potential. If you want a general introduction to the Novo Nordisk Graduate Programme including all 18 tracks then click here. 

Contact 

For questions about the Global Market Access Graduate Programme, please contact one of our current graduates, or visit the FAQ section of our graduate careers site. You can also click on this link for information on our upcoming graduate webinars.

About Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. We employ more than 69,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 170 countries. We are on a relentless mission to drive change for millions of people living with chronic diseases, and we need people like you to join us on this mission and take Novo Nordisk into the future. 

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.