Executive Director - Real World Evidence

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 Executive Director, Real World Evidence (RWE), is responsible for assuring the generation of real-world evidence to help build the clinical, economic and humanistic value proposition across all stages of the lifecycle for NN products and therapeutic areas in the U.S.

 

Relationships

This position reports directly to the Vice President, Clinical Data Science & Evidence (CDSE) in Clinical, Medical and Regulatory Affairs (CMR) and has broad responsibility for managing multiple internal relationships within and across NNI and NN A/S.

 

Internally, the incumbent works in close collaboration with leadership in CMR, Market Access, Marketing, Legal, Public Affairs, Global Market Access, and Global Clinical Development.

 

The ED works through the Real-World Evidence team to deliver impactful real-world evidence for all key products. The team executes on the evidence generation plan and ensures that the evidence is scientifically rigorous to impact and inform health care decision making.

 

Essential Functions

• The Executive Director, as head of the Real-World Evidence team is responsible for providing strategic vision, expertise, leadership, and direction to the team.
• The Executive Director leads the team responsible for delivering the real-world evidence associated with the strategic, long-term, and integrated Evidence Generation plans for key products. The team ensures that the evidence is generated based on relevant research questions that are aligned with NNI business priorities. These plans are the drivers for all evidence generation activities across NNI.
• The Executive Director leads the team responsible for ensuring that the studies are high quality, relevant and delivered on time. This includes working with vendors, global RWD and IT teams, clinical teams, medical affairs, and customers to execute on the studies i.e., develop study protocol, manage study conduct, deliver study results and drive publications in top tier journals. As needed, the studies and analytics will also be translated into field tools for use by medical and commercial field personnel.
• The Executive Director leads the team responsible for engaging with the internal teams to ensure the RWE material is user friendly, relevant, high quality and communicated during customer conversations. This would involve interfacing with internal teams and field teams to train the field on RWE communication tools and ensure that the key points out of the studies are clearly communicated to the field teams.
• To support these activities, the incumbent is responsible for owning the RWE execution process, interfacing with key high-level leaders to drive the process, ensure timing and expectations to deliver integrated and impactful RWE for all key products.
• Assures that delivery of U.S. strategic insights and inputs from real world data are provided to shape NNI project teams through the EG planning teams and process.
• Assures that RWE required for health economic models, including decision analytic, cost-effectiveness, budget impact and disease treatment models are designed and implemented based on the specific needs to support the market access and performance of Novo Nordisk products.
• Establishes, oversees implementation, and monitors adherence to administrative policies and procedures including those guiding RWE and reporting of RWE findings with payor and provider customers
• Responsible for RWE annual budget, assures RWE investments (research, tools, FTEs, publications, field liaisons) are driving attainment of goals and priorities.
• Inspires, increases motivation and productivity in implementing policies and management practices that attract and retain the best RWE talent in the U.S.
• Ensures commercial alignment of RWE and initiatives with brands, public affairs, market access and medical strategies.
• Oversees RWE activities to develop RWE for inclusion into cost models that demonstrate t