Sr Director Global Medical Affairs, Rare Blood Disorders

In rare disease, every strategy carries extraordinary weight. In this role, you’ll unite expertise, innovation, and collaboration to shape global impact — while leading a team that turns medical vision into reality.

Your New Role

We are seeking a seasoned and visionary leader to join our Global Medical Affairs Leadership team. This role offers the opportunity to leave a legacy for people living with blood rare disease (hemoglobinopathy) by enabling and inspiring a highly skilled, passionate team to drive the medical strategy and stakeholder engagement in a rapidly evolving therapeutic area,

Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• Ensuring the medical affairs team members design and implement a global medical strategy that is rooted in business objectives & priorities, meets patient & clinical needs and adheres to compliance and regulatory standards.
• Providing strategic insights into the commercial & portfolio strategy, product development, while driving standards for robust strategic input and expertise by the medical directors at a product level
• Being accountable for the evidence strategy and driving data generation through fostering strong collaboration between the medical affairs, the evidence generation team and health care professionals
• Ensuring the team drives medical education and brings scientific thought leadership through impactful KOL engagement using a wide variety of medical communication channels.
• Leading, inspiring and developing a high-performing team, fostering excellence in medical affairs capabilities and maintaining state-of-the-art competencies and know-how.
• Driving excellence in medical execution of activities and (pre-)launch performance of the medical teams across the global organisation and the affiliates of key markets, embracing new ways of working.
• Representing Medical Affairs in cross-functional teams, international professional associations and scientific exchange forums, anticipating business challenges and/or opportunities for partnering in a rapidly changing environment.

Your New Department

Rare Disease, based in Zurich, Switzerland, is the global head office of the rare disease arm of Novo Nordisk. We are focused on improving the lives of people with serious chronic rare diseases. Patients are at the centre of everything we do. Our vision is to be a leader in rare blood, rare bleeding and rare endocrine disorders. We live the Novo Nordisk Way and draw on the company’s rich heritage. Our working environment is entrepreneurial and fast-paced, and we are an ambitious team that values curiosity and generosity. If this spirit is appealing to you, then we may be the right place for you.

Your skills & qualifications

We seek a bold, strategic thinker with extensive expertise in medical affairs, a strong business acumen and a global mindset — the ideal candidate thrives in complex environments and is dedicated to advancing healthcare through scientific innovation, effective leadership, collaboration and a result-oriented approach. This role requires a confident communicator, a visionary leader, an effective mentor and a trusted partner within an expansive network.

• A Medical (MD) or pharmacy degree, or PhD with strong experience in hematology or related therapeutic areas in rare diseases.
• Over 10 years of medical affairs experience, including global, regional, or multi-country exposure.
• Proven track record in influential leadership and ability to build and drive high-performing collaborative teams.
• Proven track record of creating business value through functional impact: strategic planning, prioritisation, scientific engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Fluency in English with the capability to operate effectively in a global matrix environment and across diverse cultural and scientific settings.

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. For over 100 years this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

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.

Deadline
21st October 2025. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

Disclaimer

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

Novo Nordisk is not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on

solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.