Product Manager, Obesity

**About the Department**

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with nearly 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, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 45,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 170 countries.

As Product Manager for Obesity, you will get an opportunity to work within a high performing marketing team based in Novo Nordisk Vietnam.

**The Position**

In this role, you will develop local product marketing strategy with the Marketing Director/Manager and facilitate launch and sales execution as well as follow-up on the marketing programmes with internal stakeholders working to achieve short
- and long-term business objectives.

This position will be in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam reporting to the Business Unit Director for GLP1 & Rare Diseases.

Specific duties include but not limited to:

- Conduct effective market research to identify trends and assess the product’s competitive position; work with the BU Director to align product strategy with portfolio strategy for the affiliate and design the product marketing plan while ensuring alignment with the planning process; propose the product marketing budget and manage it efficiently to maximise return on investment for Novo Nordisk.
- Ensure that the launch plan is in place and develop the product campaign including advertising and sales force promotional materials; communicate product promotions and plans to the sales force to ensure alignment with NN strategy; drive the implementation of product strategies and campaigns while monitoring sales progression and performance regularly.
- Provide practical and motivational product and pre-launch training for product promotion specialists and new sales representatives.
- Consult/collaborate with the medical department to align marketing and medical messages; provide feedback on product performance to the Sales force and Sales Manager.
- Identify and develop contact with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs); maintain and execute a regular visit plan with target customers in coordination with the Sales force; coordinate with creative and event agencies to ensure success of promotional campaigns

**Qualifications**
- You have a relevant academic degree within medical or business administration area; MBA degree is a plus.
- You have minimum 3 years of experience within pharmaceutical or consumer healthcare industry preferably with 2 years’ experience in a Product Manager role or of equivalent accountability
- Your knowledge and experience of the disease area as well as the local healthcare landscape and customer-base are considered an advantage
- You have excellent and effective communication and interpersonal skills
- Good command of English is required, both written and spoken

**Working at Novo Nordisk**

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales - we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

**Contact**

**Deadline**

Until the completion of recruitment.

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.

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