Communications Lead

Are you passionate about ensuring patient access to life-changing therapies? you have experience in market access strategy and negotiations? We are looking for a Communications Lead at Novo Nordisk. If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to improving patient lives, read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

About The Department

Novo Nordisk (NN) is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders, rare diseases, and other serious chronic diseases.

Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.

The position
As a Communications Lead, you will manage and secure Novo Nordisk’s reputation in South Korea through communication and media relations, enhance leadership's media engagement capabilities, oversee the commercialization of key brands with a focus on obesity, drive disease awareness campaigns, and develop internal communication strategies to aid in employer branding.

Other role expectations are as follows, but is not limited to:

• External Communications: Develop and execute communications strategies to help with brand commercialization and business strategy, ensuring alignment and consistency across all internal and external communications. Manage media strategy in South Korea, build relationships with local media, and position Novo Nordisk as a leader in chronic diseases. Oversee organization's branding campaigns and maintain systems for smooth communication operations.
• Issues Management and Communication Planning: Identify potential business threats and opportunities, develop action and communication plans, provide counsel during crises, and lead issue response and risk identification.
• Agency and Budget Management: Manage external vendors/agencies to ensure high-quality, timely execution of communications strategies. Oversee budget management, performance reviews, vendor selection, and adherence to business ethics, local law, and internal guidelines.
• Internal Communication: Develop key messages and positioning for NN leadership, drive employer branding for South Korea, and create content to drive awareness and company culture through various media channels.
• Adherence to CVI Guidelines: Ensure adherence to company's Visual Identity (VI) guidelines, act as VI expert for South Korea, and conduct CVI training for employees as needed.
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

• University graduate: communications or journalism qualifications preferred.
• Over 7 years of in-house pharmaceutical communications experience, including communications planning, media and public relations, issue management, and internal communications.
• Excellent verbal, written, and communication skills; strong copywriting and presentation abilities; adept at utilizing and evaluating social media and digital content.
• Proactive self-starter with good personal impact, networking skills, and ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Experience in matrix organizations, managing global projects, knowledge of diabetes and obesity therapies, fluent in English, and willing to travel internationally.
  
  
  
  

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 60,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment. Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged 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 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.