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Senior Associate - Sample Operations Support

Novo Nordisk AS

  • Plainsboro, NJ
  • 2 days ago
  • $99,000–$120,000 Per Year

Highlights

System/Program Management: Responsible for ensuring system accuracy in Direct to Physician (DTP) sampling programs including review and monitoring of user system access, creation of system input files for Rep users and HCP Accounts and collaborate with system teams to ensure timely uploads and data verification. Sample Reconciliation: Collaborates with third party vendors to ensure that samples have been accounted for, transferred, returned and processed appropriately and conduct follow up activities for HCP sample disbursement verifications with HCP office/accounts in accordance with procedures and service levels.

Numbers & Facts

LocationPlainsboro, NJ
IndustryBiotechnology/Pharmaceuticals
Salary$99,000–$120,000 Per Year
Company Size2,500 to 4,999 employees
Year Founded1923
Websitehttps://www.novonordisk.com/

Description

About the Department

The Cardiometabolic Care Sales Team is at the forefront of US sales efforts for Novo Nordisk's robust cardiometabolic product portfolio, which includes world-class therapies for treating multi-morbid conditions such as diabetes, obesity, and the reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events. Our ambition is to advance broad cardiometabolic disease management by bringing exciting new therapies to market to improve patient outcomes. As a team member, you will connect therapies to new specialties, build cardiometabolic advocates, and apply learnings that impact local markets and the organization in a cross-collaborative way.

At Novo Nordisk, we create value by having a patient-centered approach and are committed to providing innovation to the benefit of our stakeholders. We focus on personal performance and development and have a culture centered on helping leaders create the conditions for people to be at their best. If you want to join a highly diverse and collaborative team and are ready to take the next step in your career with a company committed to meeting the evolving needs of patients with cardiometabolic diseases, come join us!

The Position

Support Novo Nordisk field sales force by coordinating sampling practices, which includes distribution, accountability and compliance of product samples to ensure compliance with the Prescription Drug Marketing Act (PDMA) and company policies and procedures.

Relationships

This position reports to the Director, Sample Operations and interfaces with Sample Operations Team Members, Field Sales, NNI Customer Service, NNI Product Quality and external relationships with distribution and compliance vendors.

Essential Functions

  • Communications: Communicates to applicable field sales representatives on a regular basis necessary information and updates required for sample deliveries and tracking
  • Customer Service: Maintains an understanding and awareness of all Sample Operations processes to effectively support phone and email inquiries from field representatives to provide guidance according to policies/procedures and facilitate resolution of sample issues
  • Documentation: Collaborates with Team Members to review, revise and ensure consistency of Departmental work instructions, field guidance documents and other documentation / Department directories for accuracy
  • Sample Ordering: Supports procedures, system and inquiries related to sample order processes
  • Sample Reconciliation: Collaborates with third party vendors to ensure that samples have been accounted for, transferred, returned and processed appropriately and conduct follow up activities for HCP sample disbursement verifications with HCP office/accounts in accordance with procedures and service levels
  • Sample Reconciliation: Partners with Sample Operations Team members to monitor, conduct follow-up and closure of transactional issues and appropriate documentation/tracking
  • Sample Reconciliation: Reconcile sample accountability inventory reports produced at the territory level based on weekly, monthly, annual, for-cause and/or random type inventories
  • Operations Support: Reviews and evaluates requests and inquiries for field tools and materials (thermometers, coolers, SRFs, etc.) to sampling representatives and determines next steps for approval, replacement, or decommissioning and provides guidance for proper handling
  • Projects: Participates in various projects to ensure proper monitoring, follow up, completion of tasks and communications occur in line with project timelines
  • System/Program Management: Responsible for ensuring system accuracy in Direct to Physician (DTP) sampling programs including review and monitoring of user system access, creation of system input files for Rep users and HCP Accounts and collaborate with system teams to ensure timely uploads and data verification
  • Sharepoint Management: Responsible for the creation, maintenance and organization of the Department SharePoint page. Work with stakeholders to create or update content, as needed
  • Support Role: Provides back-up support to Sample Operations Team functions when Team Members are not available due to vacation, illness, leave, etc
  • Transactional Reporting: Gathers, prepares and analyzes data for periodic reporting to monitor sample transactions and provide high-level operational metrics
  • Vendor Collaboration: Liaises with NNI contracted vendors to support Departmental functions to ensure proper ordering, tracking and communication occurs within approved NNI business rules

Physical Requirements

0-5% overnight travel required. This is a Home Office position. This position follows all NNI guidance for remote/in office dedicated time. EST time-zone hours.

Qualifications

  • A bachelor's degree from credited institution preferred. Accounting, Finance, or related field plus two years pharmaceutical marketing/sales experience
  • Two years equivalent pharmaceutical sample accountability/marketing/sales experience may be substituted for degree, when appropriate
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality
  • Ability to multi-task and effectively manage conflicting priorities
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Office, including Excel
  • Ability to problem-solve and critical thinking
  • Customer service skills
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to leverage AI to enhance productivity and incorporate process improvements in daily tasks and projects
  • Team player: ability to collaborate well with team members, other departments and various stakeholders/suppliers

The base compensation range for this position is $99,000 to $120,000. Base compensation is determined based on a number of factors. This position is also eligible for a company bonus based on individual and company performance. Novo Nordisk offers long-term incentive compensation and or company vehicles depending on the positions level or other company factors.

Employees are also eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs including medical, dental and vision coverage; life insurance; disability insurance; 401(k) savings plan; flexible spending accounts; employee assistance program; tuition reimbursement program; and voluntary benefits such as group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet insurance and auto/home insurance. The Company also offers time off pursuant to its sick time policy, flex-able vacation policy and parental leave policy.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, were not chasing quick fixes - were creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, weve been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of whats possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, were making healthcare more accessible, treating and defeating diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger - a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.

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.

About Company

Working at Novo Nordisk

 

Life-changing careers

Starting a career at Novo Nordisk is more than getting a job. It is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people living with a serious chronic disease.

Whether you are a part of supplying insulin for patients around the world, discovering the next breakthrough at one of our state-of-the-art research centres, working with us is truly life-changing.

 

We are inspired by life

We are a proud life-science company on a mission to ensure that people living with a chronic disease can live a full life. Millions rely on us.

We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. From our colleagues in the lab, working to change lives through pioneering break-through treatments, to our colleagues putting sustainability at the core of our processes and working to prolong the life of our planet, this mission to improve lives is at the core of our every action.

 

Together we drive change

Change is a constant — change in lifestyle, change in technology, change all over. At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it.

We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future.

That’s why we continuously push to improve the way we work and the lives of the patients we serve, creating innovative solutions that fit the way people want to live. To accomplish this, we embrace a spirit of open-mindedness and experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection.

 

Together, we are life-changing

Our company is our people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We want to ensure that every employee can achieve a work-life balance that supports their current priorities and where they want to go next.

 

Your development starts here

We value our employees for the unique skills, backgrounds and perspectives they bring to the table. We work continuously to help bring out the best in all of our people, offering opportunities for development and creating an environment of mobility within the company. We strive to offer a workplace that’s great to be in and to be from.

It is very important to us that anyone working with us feels empowered as an employee and as a person. We all should have the opportunity to act fast, make decisions and be agile. 

With a career at our company, you will feel a difference right from the start. A sense of inspiration that comes from a shared belief in driving positive change for people, families and communities everywhere, and it’s a collective effort. We rely on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 45,000 employees.

In the video above, meet  Marie Darting, one of our scientists, and hear more about her work as a formulation scientist, her perspective on development plans and the impact she feels her work has on people living with a chronic disease.

 

Who we are

We were founded in 1923 and today we are a global healthcare company headquartered just outside Copenhagen, 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 diabetes.

With almost 100 years of experience, one of the broadest diabetes product portfolios in the healthcare industry, as well as an award-winning pipeline of innovative products, our success is built on our company values – the Novo Nordisk Way.

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