Vice President, Patient Access & Public Affairs

Category: Market Access

Location:Mississauga, Ontario, CA

• Participates as an active member of the Executive Team in setting and achieving strategic goals of the company.
• Makes important contributions as part of the senior leadership team, working well with colleagues and setting an example for the organization as a whole.
• Builds strong relationships with external customers to enhance the Novo Nordisk image in the marketplace.

• Creates a clear and concise vision that aligns with relevant strategies across the NNCI portfolio
• Oversees the development, effective execution and ongoing monitoring of all Patient Access business plans and strategies
• Develops strategies and relationships that support market growth opportunities for current and new products.
• Understands the impact that the changing healthcare market will have on NNCI products and effectively conveys implications that NNCI products may have on the wider healthcare market.
• Explores and evaluates potential opportunities in all emerging customer marketplaces.

• Responsible for establishing the value of NNCI products through health economics and for generating supportive data and evidence through outcomes research.
• Responsible for submissions to Health Technology Agencies.

• Responsible for contracting and pricing strategies, tactics, and initiatives to maximize profitability goals, and increase market share and productivity and measurable impact and value to the organization.

• Oversees the development, effective execution, and ongoing monitoring of all Patient Access field activities.
• Actively participates in high stakes negotiations.

• Responsible for NNCI being a solution-oriented partner to patients and policymakers in the joint ambition to raise the standards of care in our therapy areas and help solve society’s fundamental challenges.
• This includes Cities Changing Diabetes, Circular for Zero, sustainability, patient relations, Take Action.

• Responsible for NNCI grants, donations and sponsorships

• Responsible for NNCI compassionate care programs

• Develops and monitors performance against budgets.
• Reviews and audits expense reports.
• Establishes, oversees implementation, and monitors adherence to administrative policies and procedures.
• Evaluates appropriate use of resources to ensure attainment of NNCI profitability goals.

• Leads, defines vision, sets strategy for department, and ensures effective people management, including development goals and annual goals and measurements that are consistent with priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and measurements process
• Builds an effective leadership team ensuring that each individual in a leadership role embraces the Novo Nordisk Way and instills a winning culture within the team
• Ensures that IDP are completed and include completed learning and aspirations for all employees to enable achievement of goals, and career development
• Through leadership and coaching demonstrates the Novo Nordisk Way and imbeds the NN Way of leadership and 4 leadership themes into the Units work and plans.

• An advanced degree in science and/or business. Meaningful exposure to statistical and mathematical modelling preferred.
• Demonstrated success at the executive leadership level.
• Extensive experience managing managers.
• Meaningful experience at managing successfully through difficult problems.
• Cross-functional experience at both global and affiliate level is preferred
• At least 15 years of progressive pharmaceutical/healthcare experience required with a strong knowledge of the payer and policy environment.
• Strong background in relationship management; especially with payers and policymakers