General Manager & Vice President, United Arab Emirates

We are looking for an experienced and strategic commercial leader to join an innovative and dedicated affiliate in the United Arab Emirates who will be guiding the organisation to the next phase of its development.

If you are looking for an exciting career within a leading global healthcare company on a very strong growth trajectory and if you believe that the strongest results are achieved by collaboration and creating cohesive, winning teams with individuals who are empowered to strive for quality and excellence, then we would like to hear from you.

The role as General Manager and Vice President offers an exciting opportunity to head up a fast-growing affiliate in a dynamic, high-potential market. The position is based in Dubai reporting to Corporate Vice President of Business Area Middle East, Africa, and CIS (BAMEAC).

Your coaching and innovative mindset are instrumental in bringing our products through to the patients, in a compliant way!

The position  

As General Manager and Vice President, you will drive the strategic leadership and set direction and priorities to drive business performance, improvement, and growth, in alignment with Novo Nordisk’s corporate strategy.

By combining a strong commercial mindset and business understanding, you can develop innovative solutions and strategies while providing guidance and direction to the team. You will set the stage for a future-fit organisation that encompasses both short-term and long-term goals.

Through your extensive leadership experience, you will maintain and nurture an existing culture of engagement and high performance where people are empowered to take decisions and where there’s a high sense of belonging driven by purpose and employee experience.

You will be head up a cross-functional team of various departments and Business Units such as: “Obesity”, “Rare Disease”, “Diabetes”, “Finance”, “Clinical Medical Regulatory & Pharmacovigilance” and “Legal, Ethics, Compliance & Quality”, and “People & Organisation”, where effective communication, collaboration and best practice sharing is at the forefront.

Qualifications

• You have a degree qualification coupled with significant experience in pharmaceutical industry.
• A minimum of 5 years of previous GM experience from pharmaceutical, healthcare industry would be preferred and important consideration in decision making. Combined with a proven track record heading up sizable sales organizations are required to be successful in this role.
• Bringing significant business experience from the healthcare industry in the Middle East Region, is seen as highly beneficial.
• As a seasoned people leader, you are investing in developing your employees and support their growth. You are comfortable with multicultural environment, you create a collaborative, inclusive culture, you empower, and foster diversity, and encourage innovation.
• You are a commercially savvy business executive, an excellent communicator, and analytical thinker experienced developing and implementing strategies.
• You can make clear choices that balance the organisation's overall goals and objectives.
• In addition, you are resilient and can manage ambiguity and changing priorities.

This is an ideal role for a business savvy people leader, with an entrepreneurial mindset, who enjoys driving growth, forming, and nurturing partnerships, supporting science, and building strategies for new pathways to the market.

About Novo Nordisk United Arab Emirates (UAE)

Novo Nordisk affiliate in United Arab Emirates is part of Business Area Middle East, Africa, and Commonwealth of Independent States (BAMEAC).
The affiliate employs approx. 115 positive and engaged employees who are empowered to overcome challenges and driving changes in fast-changing environment.

Novo Nordisk UAE aims to have a healthy, engaging, diverse, and fully inclusive company where employees can perform at their best, and where we benefit from different perspectives and backgrounds.

At Novo Nordisk, we believe in being a sustainable business that adds value to society by investing in our local communities. We do so through partnerships with medical- and patient associations as well as through interactions with government entities.

For many years now, we have been committed to help serve patients living with diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. With you at the helm and as ambassador for Novo Nordisk in United Arab Emirates, we aim to reach even more patients with our life-saving medicines. 

Deadline
5 May 2024.
Please submit your application via our online application tool. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your resume or CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

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.

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.