Novo Nordisk Fellowship - Multidisciplinary (Multiple Positions)
Novo Nordisk Inc.
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Details
Posted: 11-Oct-24
Location: Plain, New Jersey
Type: Fellowship
Job Setting:
Pharmaceutical Science/Industry
Required Education:
PharmD
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Employer will assist with relocation costs.
ATTENTION: To be considered as an applicant, you must apply directly to the job posting on the Novo Nordisk website: Job ad (novonordisk-us.com).
About the Department
The Clinical, Medical and Regulatory (CMR) department at Novo Nordisk is one of the most diverse and collaborative groups within the organization. From health-care-provider interactions and developing and implementing regulatory strategies with the FDA to providing medical education and collecting data to support efficacy and new product development, CMR is involved. The one thing that keeps us all marching to the same beat is our patient-centered focus. At Novo Nordisk, you will help patients around the world. As their needs evolve, so does our challenge to find better and more innovative ways to improve their quality of life. We’re changing lives for a living. Are you ready to make a difference?
The Position
The Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship is a two-year, experiential program based in Plainsboro, New Jersey. This fellowship is intended to provide an educational and practical experience for a PharmD within the pharmaceutical industry. The fellow will contribute to different functional areas at Novo Nordisk Inc., where a PharmD’s training and expertise will provide value to the organization. The fellow will gain the skills needed to pursue a career within the pharmaceutical industry where their education and experience can make a significant contribution to meeting customer needs and achieving company goals.
During this two-year fellowship, the fellow will gain experience in several concentrated focus areas: one year in Medical Information and two, 6-month rotations in other functional area(s) within the department at Novo Nordisk, Inc.
Relationships
The fellow will report to the Fellowship Director throughout the two-year program and will also have a reporting relationship with a manager/preceptor in the respective functional areas during their rotations. Additional key internal relationships may include Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, Learning & Development, Clinical Trial Management, and Clinical Development.
Essential Functions
Fellow will collaborate with cross-functional areas including Medical Affairs, Regulatory Affairs, Marketing, etc. This structured approach will allow for a broad, “hands-on” experience.
Fellow may complete a research project related to challenges, best practices, trending topics, and/or innovative methods for communication of scientific information. This research may then be presented to internal stakeholders or at a key conference/congress.
Fellow may be asked to attend other relevant scientific conventions, national team meetings, and other travel as required and as feasible based on business needs.
Fellow will gain experience for one year in Medical Information and two additional 6-month rotations in two of the functional areas listed below.
Medical Information (required)
Gain an understanding of the role and responsibilities of a Medical Information Manager in a pharmaceutical industry setting.
Provide verbal, written, and on-demand video responses to unsolicited medical and technical inquiries about Novo Nordisk, Inc. products from health care professionals (HCPs), institutions, and/or payors.
Create and/or revise standard and custom Medical Information responses for use in answering existing and anticipated medical and technical inquiries from HCPs.
Assist field medical and sales colleagues who receive unsolicited inquiries and request medical information support.
Revise and/or add to content in comprehensive evidence-based medical information documents (e.g., clinical overviews, formulary dossiers, online evidence repository).
Ensure compliance with FDA requirements as they affect medical communications; responses must be accurate, up-to-date, balanced, and scientific.
Provide related medical support, which may include but is not limited to: internal product and disease state training, collaborating on Customer Care Center scripts, staffing medical booths at meetings/conventions, global alignment of medical information standards and best practices.
Medical Promotional Review (option)
Gain an understanding of Medical Promotional Review and the team’s commitment to critically evaluating promotional material for its scientific validity and medical accuracy, as well as consistency with the FDA-approved labeling.
Assist the Promotional Review Board (PRB) team to ensure all promotional materials (i.e. , consumer and HCP websites, HCP brochures, disease awareness campaigns, direct-to-consumer commercials) are accurate, fair-balanced, truthful, and non-misleading, all while helping to achieve marketing’s goals.
Learn the core fundamentals of Medical Accuracy Review and Medical Review in an assigned therapeutic area(s).
Participate in cross-collaborative PRB meetings, engaging with stakeholder colleagues in Medical Affairs, Marketing, Legal, Marketing Operations, and Product Safety.
Medical Education (option)
Gain an understanding of industry regulations pertaining to Independent Medical Education and ensure that assigned programs are funded and executed in compliance with these guidelines.
Participate in the review and evaluation of grant requests submitted by various medical education providers. Analyze needs assessments, instructional design, learning objectives, and agenda in submitted grant requests to ensure alignment with medical education strategy.
Manage assigned medical education programs to ensure successful implementation of programs within budget.
Review program content, after their dissemination to intended audiences, for medical accuracy and fair balance.
Assess the effectiveness of supported programs by reviewing outcomes data.
Develop and disseminate monthly communications to internal stakeholders to share the value of supported medical education programs.
Publications (option)
Gain an understanding of industry regulations pertaining to scientific publications and ensure that publications are executed in compliance with these guidelines.
Participate in the development of publication plans, needs assessment, gap analysis and publication proposals to ensure alignment with Novo Nordisk, Inc. and Global publication strategy.
Represent Publications team at Global Publications Planning Group meetings, and internal stakeholder and external vendor status update meetings.
Manage assigned disease state or product-specific publications to ensure successful poster or oral presentations at congresses and submissions of manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals.
Assess the impact and reach of Novo Nordisk, Inc. Publications.
Innovate publications and extend the reach through multichannel engagements, digital formats of publications (publication extenders), and automation and AI technologies.
Physical Requirements
10% overnight travel required.
Qualifications
Received a Doctor of Pharmacy degree from an ACPE-accredited college of pharmacy within the last three years.
Strong academic track record preferred.
Demonstrated leadership capabilities.
Presentable, highly articulate, goal-oriented, honest, with high integrity and strong ethics.
Track record of teamwork, innovation and project management.
Ability to think critically, strategically, and independently.
Possess good communication skills, both oral, written and presentation.
Demonstrate an ability to perform medical accuracy review with strong attention to detail.
Proficiency in Microsoft Office software applications such as PowerPoint, Excel and Word and overall computer skills with knowledge of literature search technique required.
We are a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark with our US headquarters located in Plainsboro, NJ. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity, and rare blood and rare endocrine diseases. 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 55,000 people in 80 offices around the world.
For over 100 years, we have been translating the unmet medical needs of people living with a serious chronic disease into innovative medicines and delivery systems, like our insulin pens. Our treatments today are benefiting millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. From our labs to our factory floors, we are discovering and developing innovative biological medicines and making them accessible to patients throughout the world. Our industry is dynamic. And the scientific understanding of the diseases we treat and the people living with them, improves every day. This is a constant reminder that what got us to where we are t...oday is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. As an employer, we recognize the need to embrace experimentation and strive f or diversity and inclusion to help make better decisions by ensuring that multiple perspectives are considered. Together, we’re life changing.