Employer Branding Market Activation Specialist

Are you passionate about branding - and ideally also talent attraction? Leverage your toolbox of skills to attract and retain top talent for our growing organization through employer branding and talent marketing. With more than 72,000 employees today, Novo Nordisk is a global leader in the pharmaceutical industry on an unprecedented growth journey. Right now, we’re looking for a dedicated and experienced branding practitioner to join our global employer branding team, supporting France, one of our key recruitment markets. Join us on this exciting journey!

This position will be based in Puteaux, France or Chartres, France – Travel between the sites is expected.

The position

The Employer Brand Activation Specialist is responsible for developing and executing the talent attraction and employer branding strategy in France. This includes collaborating with local stakeholders in human resources, communications, and recruitment.

Key responsibilities include:

• Advise and execute on initiatives and tactics to address talent attraction needs short and long term, considering the local market context. This could include, but is not limited to:
• Support with local content and employee stories for “always on” campaigns.
• Create media plans to bring to life our Employer Value Proposition.
• Plan and execute on recruitment marketing campaigns and talent outreach events.
• Build and maintain relationships with universities, industry contacts, and other sources of potential candidates.
• Support/manage recruitment marketing campaigns across the region related to strategic priorities and talent segments.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we expect you to:

• Have min. 5 years of experience working with marketing, branding, communications (preferably related to talent attraction).
• Have experience with digital campaign management (from international marketing agency/consultancy or large international company).
• Ideally BA or other academic degree in business, marketing, branding, communications.
• As a person, you enjoy working both independently and as a team. You have a high degree of cultural agility and an international mindset, and you speak and write English fluently, enabling you to manage stakeholders and work efficiently with colleagues across cultures. You approach tasks with structure, insights, and a positive “can do” attitude, and you thrive in a context where it’s sometimes necessary to learn by doing. We expect you to bring curiosity, respect, and care and we promise to give you the same.

About the department

Join the Global Employer Branding & Onboarding Centre of Excellence team, composed of passionate professionals from diverse backgrounds (HR, Communication, Business Development, Marketing & Natural Sciences). We leverage our differences to create innovative approaches and high-quality solutions to attract top talent globally.

Our main objective is to position Novo Nordisk as a preferred employer, helping business areas worldwide find and attract critical talents. As we grow and enter new therapeutic areas, this presents a unique opportunity to develop impactful strategies to stand out as an employer of choice and secure the talent needed to deliver life-saving treatments to our patients.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further.

Contact

If you have questions about the position, you are welcome to contact Head of Employer Brand Market Activation Jenna Mescon at [emailprotected]

Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by 01 / 04 / 25. We will screen applications continuously, so don’t hesitate to submit it as soon as possible. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.