Novo Nordisk Posted November 7, 2026

Senior Manager, Marketing (Vienna, Vienna, AT)

Vienna, Austria Type not listed
Marketing Manager
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About this opportunity

Job Title: Senior Manager Marketing

Location: Vienna, Austria

Your impact begins here

As Marketing Senior Manager, you will shape how Novo engages people and healthcare professionals in Austria, from first awareness through to starting and staying on treatment. You will turn consumer and market insight into marketing strategies and campaigns that deliver measurable results, and lead the teams and partners who bring them to life. Your work helps more people living with serious chronic diseases find relevant information and support today.

What you’ll bring

You are a marketer who combines strategic thinking with strong execution, and who can bring people together to get things done.

A bachelor’s degree or equivalent in marketing, business, communications, life sciences or a related field.

Significant experience in consumer marketing, brand marketing, digital marketing, omnichannel engagement or consumer experience, including responsibility for integrated strategy and execution.

A track record of turning insight into measurable marketing strategies, campaigns, launches or consumer engagement initiatives.

Experience owning a budget, managing agencies, measuring performance and engaging senior stakeholders.

A strong understanding of consumer paths, digital ecosystems, media, analytics, experimentation and marketing effectiveness.

Experience leading people, project teams or complex cross-functional initiatives in a matrix environment.

The ability to turn complex scientific, technical or business information into clear, accessible communication.

Fluent written and spoken English and German.

Useful, but not essential:

Experience in pharmaceuticals, consumer health, FMCG, retail, e-commerce or another regulated consumer environment.

Experience with patient engagement, healthcare professional marketing, e-health, strategic partnerships or business development.

Knowledge of pharmaceutical promotional governance, data privacy and relevant Austrian and European requirements.

Experience with Veeva Vault PromoMats or a similar content review and approval system.

What you’ll do

You will own the marketing direction for Austria and make sure it delivers for people, for healthcare professionals and for the business.

Define and lead an integrated consumer and healthcare professional marketing strategy, with a clear roadmap, investment choices and success measures.

Own the full path from awareness and consideration to activation, initiation and retention, finding the barriers and opportunities at each step and keeping the experience consistent across paid, owned, earned and partner channels.

Lead insight-driven campaigns, launches, content, omnichannel engagement and congress activities, with scientific accuracy, accessibility and compliance built in.

Set the KPI framework and dashboards, and use analytics, A/B testing and test-and-learn to improve channel mix, content and media investment.

Steward the marketing and commercial excellence budget, and explore new digital, e-health and external partnerships and AI-enabled capabilities responsibly.

Coach and develop your team where assigned, and build consumer, digital, analytics, AI and omnichannel capabilities across the organisation.

Who you’ll work with

You will join the Marketing team in the Austrian affiliate, part of International Operations, and report to the Commercial Director. In International Operations, colleagues work across markets to serve people around the world and help improve health at scale.

Based in Vienna, you will lead through influence in a matrix. Your closest partners will be colleagues in Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Legal and Compliance, Market Access, Corporate Affairs, Patient Engagement, Sales, Analytics and Finance, alongside regional and global marketing teams, agencies and external partners. You will bring these perspectives together, make decisions and dependencies clear, and keep execution moving at pace. You will also represent the consumer perspective in leadership, brand and planning forums.

What you can expect here

You will be trusted to own a broad, visible mandate and held to clear performance expectations. You will be supported to perform at your best, with room to make your voice heard in the forums where decisions are made. You will grow by leading across functions, building new skills and sharing what you learn, including in digital, data and AI, where Novo is upskilling its workforce to advance AI for the benefit of people living with serious chronic diseases.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 102,410.00 to 153,620.00 EUR, 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. In our Affiliate in Austria, we offer attractive benefits, including a KlimaTicket public transport pass, health insurance, a company pension, a company car, and flexible working hours

Start now

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to turn consumer understanding into measurable progress for people in Austria, apply for the Marketing Senior Manager role by 16 November 2026. We review applications on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Marketing
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
Vienna, Austria
Employment type
Not listed

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Marketing role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 705 comparable Manager Marketing roles across 117 biopharma companies.

705Comparable roles tracked
651Currently active
117Companies hiring similar roles
58Countries represented

Salary context

130 of 705 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject $102,410/yr – $153,620/yr
Lowest disclosed · Associate, Insights, Intelligence & Strategy Oncology · Pfizer $60,200/yr – $100,400/yr
Highest disclosed · Associate Director, Marketing Program Governance · Novartis $160,300/yr – $297,700/yr
Peer group range $80,300 – $229,000 (median $188,775)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 705 comparable roles

United States259
China87
India57
Japan42
Germany24
Taiwan19

+ 52 more countries

Seniority mix

705 of 705 peers have a known seniority level

Manager527
Associate Director141
Associate37

Therapeutic area mix

135 of 705 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology61
Neuroscience16
Rare Disease10
Cardiovascular / CVRM10
Vaccines & Infectious Disease8
Dermatology & Aesthetics7
Immunology7
Gastroenterology6
Respiratory6
Ophthalmology4

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