Job Description

About the Department

Our Marketing & Patient Solutions group creates and delivers human-centered experiences, where innovation meets customer-centricity, driving the ultimate experience for our patients. Our focus extends beyond transactions to craft experiences as one fully integrated, aligned and connected organization that puts empathy at the center, powered by insight and foresight.

We develop an end-to-end approach to strategy, focusing on every touchpoint that impacts our customers. We leverage data and insights to inform our decision-making processes, ensuring that our strategies are rooted in a deep understanding of customer needs and behaviors. Our 'test and learn’ mindset and approach enables us to iterate rapidly and refine our strategies based on real-world results.

We are building an intentional team culture that is made up of diverse skillsets, united by the shared belief that reinvention and learning is what fuels continuous growth. Do you get excited about exploring the unknown? Does the idea of driving value through human-centered design pull you in? Are you ready to experiment with us?

The Position

The Associate Director, Social and Digital Marketing, will be a pivotal driver in shaping and expanding how we communicate to HCPs through social and digital channels. To that end, the right candidate will be well versed and experienced in the utilization and content consumption across different HCP personas within all major social platforms and web. They will continuously stay on the cutting edge of social media evolution, evolve business processes to stay relevant based on trends, and dig deep into data to have a holistic understanding of how messaging can impact behavior and action. The Associate Director will work with the OMNI channel team to create media plans across all our digital media.

Relationships

Reports to the Director of Wegovy HCP Marketing. Collaborates with key external and internal cross-functional teams, including media, analytics, marketing, sales, medical affairs, market access and policy/advocacy (MAPA), and channel leads to support marketing tactics development and ensure alignment with overall brand/therapy area goals and insights. The role is part of the brand team and works closely with marketing team members to understand and translate brand/therapy area level strategy into valuable social experiences. Ensures consistency of brand/therapy area vision and messaging across all touchpoints.

Essential Functions

• Brand/Therapy Area Management: Support the development and execution of pre-launch, launch, and ongoing HCP-related brand/therapy area strategic objectives and activation strategies for digital channels. Contribute to prioritizing HCP needs, opportunities, and sales forecasting to drive effective brand performance
• Brand/Therapy Digital Strategy and Execution: Develop a nimble content model to support social and digital fueled by enhanced HCP targeting, digital trends, and market research
• Omnichannel Tactical Planning and Execution: Lead the development of holistic tactical plans to support the omnichannel HCP marketing social strategy and HCP reach. Drive enhancements to current paid social media targeting strategy
• Performance Monitoring: Work closely with analytics to lead and continuously improve report-out on insights. Monitor, track and report on key marketing performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of consumer social tactics and share with Consumer Marketing Team. Regularly analyze and report on the effectiveness of implemented tactics, making data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement and optimize future activity
• Content Creation and Execution: Lead the creation of promotional, engagement and experience programs/materials including any personalization for key HCP segments within HCP campaigns. Ensure content integrates across social channels to create a unified brand/therapy area experience and complies with industry regulations and guidelines. Lead the development of a sustainable content repository, development, approval and trafficking process
• Budget Management: Ensure productive management of the marketing budget to optimize resources, drive effective strategies and ensure budgets remain on track. Manages agency budgets, reviews and scrutinizes budget requests. Evaluates appropriate use of resources to ensure attainment of unit, department and Company profitability goals
• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of innovation and responsiveness by implementing 'test and learn' principles, actively seeking opportunities to enhance HCP interactions, and making recommendations for execution improvements
• Budget Management Support: Assist with the effective management of the marketing budget, ensuring resource allocation is optimized for executing strategies while remaining compliant with financial goals

Physical Requirements

20-25 % overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree; advanced degree preferred
• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience including experience within sales, brand management/HCP marketing experience, within the pharmaceutical industry required
• Deep knowledge of social marketing as well as HCP non-personal promotion across digital platforms
• Experience with media planning
• Strong project management skills with ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines
• Strong collaboration and communication skills to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Experience in developing continuously improving marketing strategies and the ability to translate insights into actionable marketing evolution
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate insights into action to guide customer experiences
• Embodies leadership behaviors, including authenticity, servant leadership, will, empathy, decisiveness, a growth mindset, and driving focus and simplicity

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 defeating 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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.