Job Description

Ready to make your mark in healthcare? Bring fresh ideas, creative energy, and a hunger to learn as you help shape marketing strategies that reach patients across Portugal.

Your new role

As a Marketing Specialist, you'll be at the forefront of the execution of our brand strategies. This is a role where your creativity, versatility, and fresh perspective will directly influence how we reach healthcare professionals across the country. You'll have the freedom to experiment with new approaches while learning from experienced colleagues in a supportive, collaborative environment.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Definition and execution of marketing brand plans for both healthcare professionals and consumers, ensuring alignment with global objectives while meeting local market needs
• Coordinating multi-channel marketing campaigns that boost brand visibility and engagement across field force, digital platforms, events, and medical congresses
• Managing the localization of global materials, working closely with agencies and internal stakeholders to ensure compliance with local regulations
• Monitoring brand performance, KPIs, and campaign effectiveness, using data analytics to identify trends and optimize marketing approaches
• Supporting market analysis including competitor tracking, insights gathering, and customer feedback to refine strategies

Your new department

Within our Portuguese affiliate, the Cardiometabolic Marketing team plays a critical role in communicating innovative treatments to healthcare professionals and patients, in the right way. You'll work in an environment where agility meets strategic rigour, where local market expertise is valued, and where your ability to build strong relationships with HCPs, field teams and cross-functional stakeholders will be essential to success.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for a Marketing Specialist who is eager to grow, open to new challenges, and excited about making a difference in patients' lives. You'll bring:

• A Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Life Sciences, or a related field
• Around 2 to 6 years of experience in brand marketing across multiple channels, ideally within pharmaceutical or healthcare industries
• Previous experience working in cross-functional teams with strong collaboration and in a matrix organization.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English (written and spoken)

• As this is an office-based role, base in Lisbon area is quired.

You have a creative mindset with enthusiasm for generating innovative ideas and trying new approaches to marketing challenges. You show versatility and adaptability – being comfortable juggling multiple projects and pivoting when priorities shift. Strong communication skills and openness to collaborating with diverse teams across functions is key for success together with analytical curiosity

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Contact

To apply, please submit your CV in English. We also encourage you to include a cover letter highlighting your relevant experience and what makes you excited about this opportunity.

Deadline

8th March 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

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 preventing 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.