Rare Diseases Marketing and Medical Sr. Director

Are you passionate about driving strategy in the rare diseases field? Do you have the expertise to lead business and medical initiatives across Latin America? If so, we want you to join our team. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

This position is based in São Paulo – SP.

Position Description

The Rare Diseases Marketing and Medical Senior Director will be in charge of leading the development and support the implementation of Rare Disease strategies across Latin America.

Build and align comprehensive commercial and medical strategies to drive the growth of the Rare Disease portfolio, ensuring seamless execution of commercial and medical initiatives for the expanding the portfolio.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the Rare Disease therapy area, including P&L management and strategy development, leading cross-functional LATAM teams to build strategic approaches and action plans for Rare Disease.
• Represent LATAM in Global, IO, and regional CBTs, ensuring alignment and effective communication.
• Identify business and product opportunities within the region through market analysis and drive the execution of initiatives focused on process implementation across affiliates.
• Provide marketing and medical insights for business discussions and align global teams with affiliates, supporting the launch process in TAs, ensuring proper planning and execution of strategic plans.
• Provide decision support to LATAM management and the VP of Marketing and Medical.

Required Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who meets the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Pharmacy, Engineering, or any related area, with a cross-functional educational background or post graduate (e.g. Finance / Marketing, Strategy / Sales/ Medical).
• Strong experience in the pharmaceutical industry, with a focus on Commercial areas and transfunctional knowledge in Access, Medical, Clinical or marketing areas.
• Proven experience as a people manager, leading teams.
• Fluency in English.
• Strong experience in rare diseases, oncology, or haematology is highly preferred.
• Knowledge in the LATAM healthcare market and government landscape is an asset.

About the department:

You will join the Marketing and Medical team at Novo Nordisk, located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Our team is dedicated to driving business, commercial excellence and medical initiatives across the LATAM region. We work in a fast-paced, hybrid and dynamic environment, collaborating closely with various departments to achieve our goals. Our team is composed of passionate professionals committed to making a difference in the lives of patients with serious chronic diseases.

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 69,000 employees around the world. We recognize 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.

Contact

To complete your application, please click "Apply now" attach your CV in English and follow the instructions. For more information, please follow us on LinkedIn: Novo Nordisk: About | LinkedIn

Deadline
Please apply beforeAugust 5th, 2025.

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.