Commercial Executive – Private Obesity

For over 100 years Novo has been driving change to defeat diabetes. They are now transforming their business and taking their expertise into therapy areas including obesity, cardiovascular and renal disease. Their story is one of incredible growth and success, which has culminated in receiving many prestigious awards, such as Best Places to Work and Vitality - Britain's Healthiest Workplace. They are investing significantly in its UK private Obesity market and are now seeking a Commercial Executive to support the teams driving growth across this priority area.

This newly created role will support the delivery of commercial priorities by enabling effective account execution, coordinating business development activity, and providing timely insight and operational support to help drive sales performance and realise growth opportunities.

• Support routine commercial execution activities, including website monitoring and operational checks.
• Coordinate delivery of commercial initiatives
• Support contracting, governance and approval process
• Enable account teams by preparing materials and operational support
• Support approvals, governance processes and operational housekeeping
• Organise meetings, events and team administration
• Prepare reports, presentations, account overviews, meeting documents and regular commercial updates
• Work collaboratively and act as a key point of contact across Commercial, Marketing, Medical, Market Access and external partners to support joined up delivery
• Maintain sales reports, dashboards and commercial trackers
• Own routine reporting, commercial trackers and account documentation
• Consolidate data into regular business updates

Novo values their employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and work continuously to bring out the best in them. They are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of their employees, the patients they serve and communities they operate in.

• Excellent salary and benefits will be offered to the successful candidate.

• Demonstrable and relevant commercial, sales support or business operations experience
• Demonstrable data and insights experience, including confidently working with commercial/sales data, analysing and interpreting information, maintaining reports or dashboards, identifying trends or gaps, and translating data into meaningful business insights
• Strong commercial coordination and operational execution experience
• Previous experience managing multiple stakeholders, priorities, actions and deadlines
• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience in sales, commercial, marketing, life sciences or a related discipline
• Excellent organisational and administrative skills
• Experience of using web-based technologies and internal communication systems
• Strong attention to detail
• Proactive, enthusiastic and commercially minded approach
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work to deadlines
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Outlook, Word and Excel
• Basic CRM reporting capability; ability to pull/validate standard reports or extract datasets
• Project coordination experience in a busy working environment
• Customer service skills including telephone skills
• Experience supporting social media or digital marketing activity