New Product Planning & Forecasting Associate Director

Your impact begins here

As New Product Planning & Forecasting Associate Director, you will bring a strong commercial perspective and shape the long-term forecasts that guide brand, portfolio and corporate decisions within Blood & Endocrine (formerly Rare Disease). Your recommendations will help senior leaders decide where to invest, so promising science reaches more patients living with rare, serious chronic diseases. Your work starts influencing real decisions from day one.

What you’ll bring

We are looking for someone who combines scientific understanding and commercial insight with rigorous analysis and can turn complexity into clear recommendations. You bring:

• A Master’s or PhD in business, economics, medicine, biology or pharmacy.

• 8–10 years of relevant experience in the pharmaceutical industry or similar experience from a top management consultancy.

• Experience developing global and local forecasts integrating epidemiological, market, clinical, and competitive assumptions.

• Experience working across the pharma value chain (e.g., clinical development, market access, commercial) to assess an early-stage assets’ clinical and commercial value.

• Strong commercial understanding and a solid grounding in natural science.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build clear frameworks from limited data.

• Strong understanding of financial valuation methodologies and value drivers for pharmaceutical assets.

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.

• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Useful, but not essential:

• Direct experience in forecasting, new product planning, and asset valuations.
• Experience working with Rare Disease, especially in endocrine, musculoskeletal, and/or renal diseases.

What you’ll do

You will play a leading role across two connected areas: New Product Planning and Forecasting. Working across assigned assets and therapy areas, you will turn complex clinical, market and competitive insights into clear recommendations that guide development and investment decisions.

You will:

• Own New Product Planning & Forecasting wholistically for one or two therapeutic areas within the Blood & Endocrine

• Drive Target Product Profile development for early-stage assets working in close collaboration with the Global Project Teams.

• Lead project valuations and risk assessments for pipeline assets at critical gate passages

• Own the long-term forecast process and outcome, challenging local market assumptions and deliver realistic and ambitious forecasts.

• Develop scenarios that reveal the key value drivers, opportunities and risks, and translate them into clear actions for brands and senior management.

• Provide robust, fact-based decision support to Global Project Teams and senior leaders, ensuring alignment between commercial, clinical and regulatory strategies.

Who you’ll work with

In Product & Portfolio Strategy, colleagues connect commercial strategy, medical affairs and business development across therapy areas, helping guide the Novo portfolio and strengthen competitiveness. You will join the New Product Planning & Forecasting team within Commercial Excellence & Strategic Planning in Blood & Endocrine, reporting to the Director of NPP & Forecasting.

Your work is global in reach. You will partner closely with multiple teams across the organization, both at local and regional level – as well as with external vendors and consultants. Bringing these perspectives together, you will create clarity, secure buy-in and help decisions move at pace.

What you can expect here

You will work in a high-trust environment with a high level of independence and empowerment to make decisions on your daily work. The role offers cross value chain exposure across commercial, medical, research and supply, and the chance to influence choices that shape the future of the portfolio. You will be trusted to raise the bar, mentor others and grow your commercial and analytical expertise.

Salary

For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 847,000.00 to 1,245,100.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate's skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

 
Incentives and Benefits

The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here .

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to turn analysis into decisions that shape a portfolio and progress for people living with rare, serious chronic diseases, apply for the New Product Planning & Forecasting Associate Director role by November 6th, 2026 . Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.