Medical Liaison, Obesity & Liver Health - South Texas

Novo Nordisk • Houston, TX

77d • Remote

About The Position

The Clinical, Medical and Regulatory (CMR) department at Novo Nordisk is a diverse and collaborative group focused on patient-centered care. This department is involved in healthcare provider interactions, regulatory strategies with the FDA, medical education, and data collection for efficacy and new product development. The Medical Liaison role functions as a scientific liaison between Novo Nordisk (NNI) and key external customers to further scientific exchange. This role provides advanced product, scientific, and medical field support to Medical, Sales, Marketing, Managed Care, and Government teams by leveraging academic/professional credentials and scientific expertise to communicate with healthcare providers, organized providers/accounts, and other relevant healthcare organizations. Strategic territory prioritization will be based on customer need and analytics. The position involves developing and maintaining medical (territory and account) plans in coordination with the Field Director. The role serves as an organization spokesperson on advanced medical and technical projects with internal teams and maintains external relationships with key opinion leaders (KOLs), academic institutions, physicians, nurse practitioners, diabetes educators, pharmacists, blood bank staff, organized providers/IDNs, and MCOs.

Requirements

• Doctoral degree required
• At least two years’ experience in a health-related system, pharmaceutical company, or managed care environment required
• Must maintain a valid driver’s license.
• Must be in good standing by not exceeding the Novo Nordisk points threshold assigned based on review of Motor Vehicle Records.
• The territory for this position is South Texas and the candidate must live within the territory or in a bordering state, located near a major airport.

Nice To Haves

• Relevant clinical and/or therapeutic experience preferred
• Displays business acumen/knowledge based on experiences such as participation in formulary process decisions
• Extensive experience in diabetes strongly preferred
• Strong communication skills

Responsibilities

• Builds relationships and demonstrates the clinical outcome and benefits of NNI products.
• Educates and demonstrates the benefits of key products to HCPs.
• Provides medical information and coordinates educational workshops, round tables, medical forums, etc.
• May explore and identify sites for clinical trials in all stages of development.
• Functions as a scientific liaison between NNI and key external customers to further scientific exchange.
• Provides advanced product and scientific and medical field support to Medical, Sales and Marketing, as well as Managed Care and Government.
• Communicates with health care providers, organized providers/accounts and other relevant healthcare organizations using academic/professional credentials and scientific expertise.
• Develops and maintains medical (territory and account) plans in coordination with his/her Field Director.
• Serves as organization spokesperson on advanced medical and technical projects with ML teams, Clinicians, Marketing, Market Access & Government and Sales personnel.
• Establishes the medical account strategy/plan through the identification and cultivation of key relationships and brings forth appropriate collaboration opportunities.
• Collaborates with Health Economics & Outcomes Research (HEOR) team to deliver scientific value proposition of NNI’s products and devices to key customers and formulary decision makers.
• Delivers HEOR presentations upon request.
• Collaborates with Marketing and Sales management to inform the development of scientific strategies to optimize NNI’s products and development activities in the medical community.
• Collaborates with trial/study investigation sites; ensuring effective coordination and facilitation of studies to ensure timely review, initiation and completion, as well as publication of study results.
• Provides clinical support in cooperation with other Novo Nordisk groups to ensure investigators demonstrate appropriate knowledge of studies, support patient recruitment and retention activities, answers responsive requests from investigators and provides feedback to sites to other groups.
• Coordinates and collaborates with regional FMA team members to ensure integrated comprehensive coverage of regional clinical and scientific needs.
• Coordinates with key internal stakeholders to provide customized and dedicated system-wide clinical education and support within respective IHNs and coordinate and manage professional relations of Novo Nordisk within these Networks from an overall “account management” level.
• Coordinates with respective HSM to provide scientific and clinical education to Chief Executives, Medical Directors and formulary stakeholders to secure proper access to NNI’s products and services in respective IHNs.
• Develops and presents product and scientific updates as requested, including Formulary presentations within IHNs, using approved material.
• Completes administrative duties in an accurate manner and on a timely basis, in line with current SOPs and working practices.
• Complies with all guidelines, policies, legal, regulatory and compliance requirements.
• Ensures effective administrative management of regional business as well as operational budgets.
• Maintains thorough understanding of all relevant Novo Nordisk processes and procedures and proactively assists other FMA members to further their understanding with these as needed.
• Provides monthly reports on scientific support activities in region to Director including budget expenditures as directed.
• Records all activities within a customer response management system (e.g. VEEVA) and all expenses within Concur in accordance with FMA procedures.
• Attends assigned medical and scientific meetings: a) ensures and maintains awareness of current issues and new data pertaining to NNI products; b) develops and maintains relationships with key health care providers and IHNs; c) develops appropriate use of NNI products and greater utilization of its services d) supports and assists representatives and managers in answering questions from health care providers and IHNs.
• Combines account management skills, business acumen and scientific expertise to enhance value and develop collaborative relationships.

Benefits

• We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
• Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer.
• Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.
• If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree