Team Leader - Market Access

• Managing a diverse team of data and domain experts, setting goals and objectives, and ensuring that team members meet their targets. Should provide feedback, training, coaching, motivation, and disciplinary action when necessary.
• Responsible for planning team's activities, resource allocation and monitoring progress to meet aligned goals. Should set clear expectations for the team, communicate these expectations to team members, and provide regular feedback to improve performance.
• Evaluate individual and team performance against objectives and identify areas for improvement to promote growth and ensure the team is meeting its targets.
• Operations mgmt. for the team and making sure that there is strong contingency plan in place for business continuity
• Hiring future talents based on expectations with business partners in IOSO
• Talent attraction, hiring, leadership and development o Developing strong pipeline for sustainability of the COE 
• Driving key assessment projects to spot opportunities to expand internal team as per business needs 

· Program management: 

• Responsible for overall planning and designing of market access projects along with IOSO stakeholders and proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues, and initiating appropriate corrective action 
• Since projects will involve participation and impact multiple functions/ groups, one must develop working relationships with all interfacing teams including IO Market access and commercial teams, Medical / clinical teams, and pricing teams 
• Drive weekly calls to brief multiple groups on the progress of projects and ensuring all actions are being taken and as a group to reach desired goals 
• Monitors project status and adjusts resources and priorities accordingly 
• Resolves issues and conflicts with team members, management, peers, and business partners 
• Provide accurate project task estimates and resource planning forecasts 
• Identify roadblocks and provide precise solutions with good rationale 
• Effective co-ordination of any new capability or addition to existing projects for the business to enable effective change and realisation of projected benefits 

· Stakeholder management  

• Collaborate efficiently with IOSO Stakeholders, Global stakeholder, and affiliates to look at feedback, development opportunities 
• Development and successful delivery of stakeholder engagement plans in accordance with the overarching stakeholder engagement strategy o Discuss and align with IOSO stakeholder to define future roadmap of market access projects 
• Provide briefings and support to technical teams for meetings with stakeholders 
• Ensure to share important milestones or any people challenges 

· Strategic tasks  

• To define the long-term vision of the team and drive progress towards creating impact to business 
• To develop newer capabilities within the team and strengthen the market access and commercial offerings 
• Team expansion in terms of geographical reach and service expansion 

· Finance GBS initiative and responsibilities 

• Key participation in Commercial Analytics and Extended management meetings and driving initiatives 
• Driving and managing key initiatives within department and at unit level to meet the strategic requirements

Main job tasks:

• Provide analytical and consulting services in designing, delivering, and executing projects related to Commercial analytics
• Develop presentations for key stakeholders across International Operations
• Experience in designing and building a compelling, structured, and logical storyboard
• Translates business strategies to high-quality PowerPoint slides quickly and effectively
• Excellent oral and written communications and editorial skills with communications and project management experience. Should be comfortable working directly with the senior leaderships
• Prepare the project plans, track project milestones and own end to end responsibility for the projects
• Strong project management skills in resolving multiple dependencies from different teamsspread in different geographies across International Operations.
• Ongoing alignment on project milestones and deliverables from the in-house process experts and Business Commercial teams
• Ensure superior customer satisfaction by delivering high end quality deliverables. Resource management for the tasks

• Analysis Methodology and Modelling
• Resource management
• Stakeholder customization and understanding Business knowledge
• Manage the market access team and ensure alignment with product and business strategy

Other areas of responsibility:

• Ensure own unit comply with local legislation and NN health and safety requirements (as described in Q189808 'Health and Safety in Novo Nordisk')
• Collaborate with HS reps and ensure their involvement in relevant health and safety processes
• IDP and performance discussions with team members
• Compliance to NN, IT and dress code policies for the team

Key stakeholders

· Includes VPs / Directors/ Senior Managers from IO and across regions within IO
· International stakeholders
· CA mgmt. and Finance HOD Team members

Type of communication

· The position requires consistent engagement with numerous external and internal stakeholders 

· Good communication and stakeholder engagement skills are necessary to manage relationships efficiently

Innovation and change:

· Appraising the performance of team members at a regular basis
· Supporting internal movements of resources as per their IDP and job requirements
· Independently plan and follow up on execution, project progress and evaluation of needed resources
· Train the team on technical and functional competency

Geographic responsibility:
Primarily IOSO, regions and affiliates
Includes limited interaction with other areas as well

Knowledge, skills, and experience:

Education: Master and bachelor degree from recognized university – Pharma, Biotechnology, Public health, Management preferred

Experience:

• Minimum 8-10 Years of experience in analytical domain with market access and commercial projects 
• Knowledge on pharma market access and drug commercialization is a must 
• PMP, or similar project management training/ work exposures 
• Minimum of 3+ experience with Project management and managing key stakeholders in any geography 
• Strong program/ project management skills with around 2 or 3 years of proven track record in supporting operational excellence, Process efficiency, lean projects 
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills

Personal skills : Stakeholder management, problem solving, pharma market access, people management, vendor management