Commercial Excellence Manager
Ireland
Are you passionate about turning data, insights, and strategy into commercial impact? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can shape commercial excellence initiatives, influence key stakeholders, and drive business growth? If so, this could be the opportunity for you. Join Novo Nordisk as a Commercial Excellence Manager and help optimise commercial performance while contributing to better outcomes for patients worldwide.
As Commercial Excellence Manager, you will play a pivotal role in driving commercial effectiveness across the organisation. You will work closely with sales, marketing, and cross-functional stakeholders to identify opportunities, develop strategic initiatives, and ensure exceptional execution of commercial plans.
Key responsibilities include:
Analysing market trends, competitor activities, customer behaviour, and performance metrics to generate actionable insights that support strategic decision-making.
Optimising the use of CRM solutions through user support, training, continuous improvement activities, and data-driven recommendations to maximise impact and adoption.
Collaborating with sales, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to ensure alignment, facilitate effective communication, and support successful execution of commercial initiatives.
In this role, you will operate with a high degree of autonomy, providing recommendations that influence commercial strategy and business performance. You will also represent the function in strategic discussions and contribute to the development of a culture of continuous improvement.
You will join Customer Excellence within the International Operations EVP area. Customer Excellence is dedicated to enhancing commercial effectiveness by combining strategic thinking, data-driven insights, and operational excellence to deliver sustainable business growth. The team works closely with commercial functions and key stakeholders across the organisation to ensure that resources, capabilities, and strategies are aligned to drive meaningful outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to high-impact initiatives while working in a collaborative and international environment.
Your skills and qualifications
To succeed in this role, we are looking for a commercially minded professional who combines strong analytical capabilities with excellent stakeholder management skills.
We imagine that you have:
A minimum of 5 years of experience in commercial marketing, sales excellence, business strategy, or a related commercial function, with a demonstrated track record of driving business growth.
Proven project management skills, strategic thinking, adaptability, and a proactive approach to solving complex business challenges.
Experience with CRM systems, performance metrics, commercial planning, and incentive programme development will be considered an advantage.
Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.
Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 74,890 to 119,000 EUR, corresponding to Job Level 7 and 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.
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.
At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've 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 what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing 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.
