Marketing Manager

Marketing Manager

**Category**:Commercial Marketing**Location**:Auckland, North Island, NZ**About the department**
The marketing team for Novo Nordisk New Zealand is composed of skilled professionals dedicated to driving the success of our brands. The team collaborates closely with various departments across Oceania & APAC, including sales, Finance, supply chain and Customer Engagement to ensure cohesive and effective market strategies. The job is based in New Zealand, and you will be reporting directly to the Country Manager New Zealand.**The position**
As a Marketing Manager, you will be in charge of leading the marketing of Novo Nordisk New Zealand products whilst co-ordinating the effective use of business resources and processes to ensure successful execution of market strategies and sales tactics. You will:
- Deliver annual business results for brands/products and support the affiliate in achieving business goals by leading and implementing selected product strategies and tactical plans aligned with New Zealand growth objectives.
- Develop and execute multi-channel marketing campaigns, including direct-to-consumer initiatives, sales force materials, conferences, and events, while ensuring effective brand positioning through customer segmentation and targeting in collaboration with the Customer Engagement Team.
- Lead, prepare, and implement launch activity plans for mid-term projects, ensuring readiness for future business platforms.
- Work closely with Finance and the Customer Engagement Team on sales demand forecasting and manage market research projects to support product and service marketing efforts.
- Manage and allocate the marketing budget to maximize impact, maintain flexibility, and ensure a high return on investment, while also developing team members to ensure readiness for current and future challenges.

**Qualifications**
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in Marketing, Science, or a Business Management-related discipline.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in a marketing or commercial management role within the pharmaceutical, medical devices, consumer health, or life science industries; experience in other industries (e.g., FMCG) is a plus.
- Strong track record in brand management, product launches, and developing market plans.
- Self-aware, curious, and aligned with the Novo Nordisk purpose.
- Must be a New Zealand Citizen or Permanent Resident.

**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**Deadline**
15 November 2024- We 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