General Manager

Job title: General Manager

Company: Novo Nordisk


Job description: Do you wish to make a difference in the lives of patients living with chronic diseases and lead a multi-country organisation that will bring innovation to the market? Are you prepared to embrace and tackle challenges as part of your daily work and use your excellent business and people leadership skills to develop and grow our business? If so, then seize the opportunity and apply to become our new General Manager for Novo Nordisk Oceania (Australia & New Zealand).About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with 100 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care and a world leading position in obesity care. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs 77,000 people in 80 countries and markets its products in more than 168 countries. Across Australia and New Zealand, the Oceania affiliate employees 300 people.We have a clear purpose to defeat diabetes, obesity, and other chronic diseases. We are now looking for an inspiring and progressive General Manager to successfully expand our market and bring our innovations to patients in Australia & New Zealand.
This position is an excellent opportunity to work with an industry leader that is constantly breaking new ground and to build your career in Novo Nordisk, which has been recognised over consecutive years as a Great Place To Work™.The position
As General Manager for Oceania you will, together with your team, set the vision and lead the entire country organisation on its path into the future. You will represent the interests of Novo Nordisk and patients within Oceania, be responsible to meet and exceed the P&L by developing mid to long term strategic plans, evolve the organisational culture and develop people capabilities that are fit for future. You will be based in Sydney, Australia and be a member of the senior leadership team of Region Asia Pacific, reporting to the Senior Vice President of Region APAC.Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead by example to inspire the organization towards customer centricity, digitalization, and sustainability, shaping and executing the organizational strategy in alignment with Novo Nordisk’s values.
• Develop and nurture strategic partnerships with external parties, including authorities, industry stakeholders, customers, and suppliers, to drive profitable and sustainable short- and long-term growth.
• Secure market share and operating profit through continued sales growth, ensuring market access for the product portfolio and successfully bringing new innovations to market.
• Represent Novo Nordisk to local authorities and key opinion leaders across therapeutic areas while building strong, trusting relationships with Medical, Payer, and Commissioning authorities.
• Foster a performance-driven culture by promoting ongoing performance dialogues, ensuring all activities comply with Novo Nordisk internal policies, local laws, and ethical standards, reinforcing the belief that there is ‘No business without ethics’.

Qualifications

• Relevant graduate-level degree (e.g., Pharmacy, Science, Business Administration) with at least 15-20 years of experience in the pharmaceutical, therapeutic health products, or related industries.
• Minimum of 8 years of executive management experience, successfully leading functions such as sales, marketing, business development, or finance across multiple settings (affiliate, region, headquarters).
• At least 8 years of experience in people management, with a track record of leading and developing high-performing cross-functional teams, ideally managing leaders of leaders.
• Strong understanding of public affairs and stakeholder engagement, as interactions with external parties are critical to the role’s success.
• Possess an entrepreneurial mindset with a strong frontline focus, demonstrating the ability to inspire and engage through impactful communication, while exemplifying compliance and ethics, and exhibiting innovative thinking alongside a robust cultural understanding

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here – to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions). For further information please reach out to our TA Partner, Karen Palmer at NKZP@novonordisk.comYou do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. To ensure a fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.Deadline
25 July 2025We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. First Nations peoples are encouraged to apply.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.#LI-AMS1

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Location: North Sydney, NSW

Job date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:25:03 GMT

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