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Cardiometabolic Educator I - Charleston South Carolina

Employer
Novo Nordisk
Location
Charleston, SC
Start date
Jan 30, 2025
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Discipline
Clinical, Marketing, Sales & Service
Required Education
Bachelors Degree
Position Type
Full time
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Job Details

About the Department                                                                                                                               

In the US, more than 100 million adults and a growing number of children live with the disease of obesity, yet only 2% of them receive dedicated medical treatment. By joining the Obesity Commercial team, you will have the opportunity to help people with obesity receive the care they deserve. The Novo Nordisk aspiration is to be a driving force in the science of obesity, to deliver an obesity portfolio and solutions that matter, to ensure obesity is widely recognized as a chronic disease and to reduce barriers to treatment. Our team is the company’s obesity strategy anchor, partnering enterprise-wide to deliver on this aspiration. The team is comprised of both our home office strategy and marketing execution teams and our field based teams focusing on customer engagements and execution of our strategy. As one of the Novo Nordisk must win battles, developing the obesity market is a rare opportunity backed by Novo Nordisk's long term commitment and track record in helping people living with chronic disease achieve greater health outcomes. If you are passionate about being a force for change, not afraid to take risks and challenge the status quo, and are looking to join a highly diverse and collaborative team, we encourage you to apply. Are you ready?

 

The Position

The Cardiometabolic (CM) Educator is responsible for the delivery of education for relevant local healthcare providers (HCPs), stakeholders, and influencers, including but not limited to practices, health systems community health centers, HCPs and other stakeholders in a given geography.  Utilizing approved clinical resources to support provider efforts to deliver appropriate care for patients. Our goal is to provide information as a trusted advisor in care for chronic diseases through using business ownership and account-centric mindset grounded in our understanding of our customers. The position is part of the commercial sales team focused on establishing Novo Nordisk as the preferred partner in patient care with a focus on further growth of the therapeutic market. This is not a clinical patient-facing role.

 

Relationships

The CM Educator is an integral part of the Cardiometabolic commercial team, serving as a trusted partner for cardiometabolic care education. They engage with a diverse range of HCPs and local stakeholders to enhance cardiometabolic management across the territory and region. Additionally, the role involves proactive collaboration with internal teams such as Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Medical, Legal, and Compliance, contributing to NNI’s CM Sales organization and key performance deliverables.

 

Essential Functions

  • Serve as a role model for the Novo Nordisk Way behaviors and actions
  • Prioritize commercial opportunities and adapting to business priorities
  • Educate HCPs to increase product utilization, optimize treatment, and align with evidence-based medicine and guidelines, while creating awareness of support programs for patients
  • Develop trusted adviser relationships with key stakeholders, presenting approved educational resources to improve adherence to NNI therapies and educate on the proper use, handling, and administration of Novo Nordisk products
  • Collaborate with targeted customers and accounts to identify appropriate patients, differentiate NNI as a therapeutic leader, and communicate effectively with field counterparts to leverage collaborative opportunities
  • Coordinate with sales colleagues to synergize efforts, present approved NNI educational resources, and communicate field insights and customer opportunities with field leadership
  • Partner effectively with internal stakeholders, create awareness of treatment pathways, and demonstrate proficiency in explaining access to NNI products, including virtual engagements
  • Appropriately utilize budget, resources, and opportunities to execute the overall strategy, demonstrating an openness to coaching and executing educational program goals within the territory
  • Clinical Addendum – Obesity
    • Establish Obesity as a chronic disease often requiring pharmacotherapy
    • Use Standards of Care for Obesity Management to educate HCPs on appropriate pharmacologic choices for patient care
    • Support local market opportunities with education and awareness across the ecosystem
    • Work with office staff to pull through benefits verification processes
    • Support branded messaging when appropriate
    • Educate HCPs on the elevated CV risks associated with obesity
  • Clinical Addendum – Diabetes
    • Establish the need to treat diabetes to an appropriate A1C goal
    • Develop awareness on the importance of protocols to support the treatment of diabetes
    • Appropriately present the Standards of Care for diabetes, including management of CV risk in patients with type 2 diabetes, to educate healthcare providers and healthcare institutions on appropriate choices for patient care
    • Support local market opportunities with education and awareness across the ecosystem
    • Educate HCPs on the elevated CV risks associated with type 2 diabetes
    • Support branded messaging when appropriate
  • Clinical Addendum – Cardiovascular
    • Advocate for the clinical impact of treating cardiovascular disease to achieve appropriate A1C goals and weight
    • Raise awareness regarding protocols that enhance the treatment of cardiovascular disease and its associated risks
    • Effectively present the Standards of Care for cardiovascular disease, highlighting the management of cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes and obesity, to educate healthcare providers and institutions on the best choices for patient care
    • Provide support for local market opportunities by offering education and awareness across the cardiovascular healthcare ecosystem
    • Educate healthcare providers on the heightened cardiovascular risks linked to type 2 diabetes and obesity and provide support for branded messaging when applicable

 

Physical Requirements

Up to 75-90% travel required; May require overnight travel. Driver must maintain a valid driver’s license. Must be in good standing by not exceeding the Novo Nordisk points threshold assigned based on review of Motor Vehicle Records.

 

Qualifications

  • A bachelor’s or equivalent degree is required, and/or Pharm D
  • A minimum of 3 years of relevant clinical experience required; relevant educational experience (i.e. PharmD) or industry experience can be substituted as appropriate
  • Ideal mix of both clinical and business experience preferred
  • Intermediate computer skills required (Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Understanding of Healthcare landscape is preferred
  • Excellent verbal and written skills required
  • Ability to work independently in a field-based role is required
  • Prior computer experience using sales data/call reporting software preferred
  • Bilingual preferred in certain geographic markets
  • Must maintain a valid driver’s license

 

 

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.

 

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

 

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

Company

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. Novo Nordisk employs about 54,400 people in 80 countries and markets its products in around 170 countries. For more information visit novonordisk.com.

Our US Research & Development hub, located in the Greater Boston area, brings together the best talent to drive life science innovation. Located in Lexington, Watertown and Cambridge, our teams reflect the full scope of R&D, from early research through late-stage clinical development. We are building for the future by creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. By combining the speed and agility of biotech with the quality, resources, and stability of a large pharmaceutical company, our US R&D hub will benefit from the best of both worlds to develop new medicines that meet the needs of patients.

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