Senior Marketing Manager, Obesity 100%
Are you ready to lead one of the most ambitious launches in the fight against obesity? As Senior Marketing Manager, Obesity you’ll turn global strategy into real‑world impact — shaping market readiness, driving adoption across regions, and ensuring patients worldwide benefit from breakthrough innovation. This is your chance to make a lasting mark on a high‑profile launch that will redefine the standard of care.
Your new role: As Senior Marketing Manager, Obesity you will be responsible for leading one of the most significant product introductions in our obesity portfolio. This role is central to shaping and executing launch strategies, driving commercial success, and ensuring effective market readiness across regions and affiliates. Acting as a bridge between headquarters, local teams, and cross‑functional partners, you will translate strategic objectives into impactful initiatives that maximise reach, adoption, and patient impact.
Main responsibilities
* Develop and execute comprehensive launch plans for obesity products, ensuring alignment with global strategy and regional priorities
* Conduct market research and analyse consumer and competitive trends to inform positioning and decision‑making
* Lead collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to deliver launch excellence and commercial readiness across all markets
* Manage planning, execution, and performance optimisation of launch activities outside the top three markets, tailoring approaches to local dynamics
* Oversee the creation and adaptation of brand materials when HQ resources are unavailable, ensuring consistency and regulatory compliance
* Organise and deliver internal training for regions and affiliates in line with HQ strategy, fostering knowledge sharing and launch preparedness
* Participate in key industry events and launch activity plans to gather insights, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and refine strategic approaches
Qualifications
* Hold an academic degree in Marketing, Business Administration or similar
* Have at least 8 years’ experience in marketing within the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry
* Have proven expertise in product management, market research, and promotional campaign development
* Be skilled in interpreting market research and consumer behaviour trends to predict future needs and tailor marketing strategies accordingly
* Be fully proficient in English, both written and spoken
* Experience within the obesity therapeutic area is an advantage
Work in an office‑based position, either in Copenhagen or Zurich. The final location will be confirmed during the recruitment process, taking business needs and candidate fit into account.
As part of International Operations, you will join our largest operational unit. Covering 194 countries and 95% of the world’s population, over 18,000 of us work passionately to serve 35 million patients each day. With a promise to outperform the competition, we continue the growth driver for Novo Nordisk, and to improve health at scale across the globe.
Benefits & culture
Working at Novo Nordisk every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. Over 100 years it has been this unordinary mindset that has built a company unlike any other, where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know deliver extraordinary results.
What we offer: Opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.
Other information
* Work location: 8058 Zürich (ZH)
* Workload: 100%
* Employment start: Immediately
* Employment duration: Permanent
* Qualification: skilled
* Work experience: More than 3 years
* Education: Vocational education and training with the Swiss Federal VET Diploma or equivalent
* English: Orally – Very good knowledge, Written – Very good knowledge
* Application method: Online form
Deadline: 31 October 2025. (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis)
More information: https://www.novonordisk.com/careers/find-a-job.html
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