Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager

**Category**:Commercial Marketing**Location**:Riyadh, Riyadh, SA- Are you passionate about making a meaningful impact in the rapidly growing and promising field of obesity therapy? Do you have the expertise to lead and inspire a cross-functional team toward excellence? If so, we are looking for a Marketing Manager to join our dynamic team at Novo Nordisk Saudi Arabia.- This position is based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and reports directly to the Senior Director of the Obesity Business Unit-
**The position**
- As a Marketing Manager for Obesity, you will lead a cross-functional matrix team to implement the obesity strategy, ensuring excellence throughout the patient journey. You’ll coordinate with Global and Regional launch teams, driving a forward-thinking brand team that prioritizes high-impact tactics. Your role involves educating and inspiring the organization on the Obesity portfolio’s core story and strategy while identifying growth opportunities. You’ll also manage multiple stakeholders to ensure cohesive messaging across all touchpoints and build strong relationships with key external stakeholders, KOLs, and target HCPs to elevate Novo Nordisk's presence in the Obesity market.- Other responsibilities will include:
- Developing and executing strategic and tactical local plans, including market segmentation, competitor analysis, and scenario planning, while exploring various sales channel opportunities.
- Customer Insight and Engagement through gaining insights from patients and HCPs to inform tactical plans, and develop relationships with KOLs, key influencers, and customers to enhance healthcare partnerships.
- Ensure effective execution of marketing plans and projects, maintaining communication with senior management on outcomes, challenges, and risks, while managing budgets to meet profitability goals.
- Align with medical, market access, and communication teams to support campaign execution, ensuring consistency in messaging and strategic understanding across the organization.
- Lead cross-functional teams in implementing tactical plans, adopt agile learning in unpredictable situations, and share best practices while adhering to business ethics, local laws, and Novo Nordisk guidelines.

**Qualifications**
- On a personal level, you are an agile individual with a flexible mindset, capable of adapting to change and driving meaningful transformation.-
- Graduate in Life Sciences, Business, Marketing, or a related field, with an advanced marketing/business qualification being highly desirable.
- Over 10 years of marketing experience in the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or consumer goods industries, with a proven track record in customer-facing roles, creative MCE expertise, and successful development and execution of market access launches.
- Proficient in evaluating return on investment for marketing tactics, assessing new sales channels across private, public, online, and offline sectors, and possessing strong market research understanding.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills, with experience in report writing, presentation creation, and tailoring content to specific audiences.
- Experienced in people management and change management, with the ability to lead teams effectively and drive organizational change.
- Knowledge of the obesity market is a plus.

**About the department**
- The obesity unit in Saudi is responsible for building the relevant strategies related to addressing one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the kingdom with more than 35% among adults, where we are concerned with helping people living with obesity across their treatment journey, also working with a wide range of stakeholders to develop this important therapy area and to prepare the market for more future innovative treatments/solutions of Obesity that will help to change the lives of millions living with Obesity in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia**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 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise 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**- Deadline- We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
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