Global Commercial Marketing Graduate: Kick-start your life-changing career!
Are you a master’s student with an interest in Commercial Strategy & Marketing? Turn your degree into a global career at one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies! Be a part of Novo Nordisk’s growth journey and accelerate your own.
Our global Graduate Programme is designed to bring together change makers with a diversity of perspectives and equip them with the tools needed to accelerate their personal and professional development. The two-year programme allows you to explore the world while developing your career. You will be taken on three rotations around the globe where you will work in a fast-paced environment and grow in ways you never could have imagined. You will be exposed to the entire Novo Nordisk commercial value chain while being challenged to explore your boundaries and reach your full potential.
About the Global Commercial Marketing graduate programme
When you join the Global Commercial Marketing team at Novo Nordisk, you’ll contribute to a line of business that’s integral to driving strategy within our organization – one that’s been entrusted to educate our customers and physicians about our life-changing products.
Global Commercial Marketing provides early business input to discovery projects and prepares long-term commercial and marketing strategies. We also prepare the markets for product launches and ensure optimal execution of commercial and marketing strategies locally. We are responsible for managing our global key opinion leader relationships successfully and our vision is to be the best commercial team in the global pharmaceutical industry and a key contributor to value creation in Novo Nordisk.
Throughout the programme you will gain hands-on experience with global and local pharmaceutical marketing and sales challenges and product pre-launch, launch and lifecycle processes. You will work with senior managers and build an international network of world-class colleagues, establishing yourself as one of tomorrow’s key people in commercial marketing at Novo Nordisk.
The position
During the two-year programme you will undertake three challenging and exciting rotations of 8-months duration within commercial, marketing and sales, both in our corporate headquarters in Denmark and in our global affiliates. You will gain experience working as a fully-fledged member of the teams and receive leadership and teamwork training and development.
During the first rotation in our headquarters in Denmark, you will experience hands-on learning and a solid introduction to corporate life and the entire pharmaceutical life cycle of a brand. On your second rotation, which will be in an international office, you will gain local market insights and high responsibility. On your third rotation, you will experience the final link in the pharmaceutical value-chain, as you work with sales in an affiliate market and have responsibility for your own customer and sales targets.
About Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is the 2nd most valuable pharmaceutical company in the world based on market cap. It was founded in 1923 and is headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark.
Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat.
We employ more than 60,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 170 countries. We’re on a relentless mission to drive change for millions of people living with chronic diseases, and we need people like you to join us on this mission and take Novo Nordisk into the future.
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Qualifications

To apply for the Global Commercial Marketing track, you must have:

• A master’s degree from 2023 or 2024 in a relevant field, for example within commercial strategy, marketing, branding, product management or business – and above average academic achievements
• International experience, for example from studying a full semester abroad, working or volunteering. If Covid-19 restrictions have prevented you from obtaining (additional) international experience, e.g. studying or completing an internship abroad, feel free to still apply and explain what your plans were, how they changed and what relevant experience you have gained instead.
• Relevant work experience or extracurricular activities obtained next to your studies
• A commercial mind-set and a passion for commercial marketing
• Team-player attitude, excellent communication skills, high drive, and an eagerness to learn
• Professional fluency in English and be globally mobile
• International driver’s license

If you meet the criteria and are interested in joining the programme, please make sure to submit your application no later than 14 December 2023 GMT+1.
Contact
For questions about the Global Commercial Marketing track, please contact one of our current graduates, or visit the FAQ section of our graduate careers site.
Important: Prepare this before you apply
Before clicking the apply button please ensure you have prepared your CV, latest academic record and motivational letter in English.

In the motivational letter we expect to learn more about your motivation for wanting to join Novo Nordisk and the Graduate Programme, as well as your personal and professional competencies. Hence, make sure you include:

• What are your expectations of the Graduate Programme and how will the programme support your career aspirations
• Share an example with us, describing a successful accomplishment from a team collaboration (max 180 words)
• What characteristics do you appreciate in others when working in a team and what three characteristics you think others appreciate about you, and why
• Please describe what particularly intrigues you about this specific graduate track – Global Commercial Marketing - and why you have decided to apply for it?

You can apply from any device but as you will be asked to answer several questions on the application page, we recommend applying from a PC instead of a mobile phone.
More information about the Graduate Programme
If you want a general introduction to the Novo Nordisk track including all 15 tracks then click here. For specific information about the Global Commercial Marketing graduate programme click here.
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.

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