Sr. Director/VP, Consumer

Employment type: Full time. Requisition: JR379. Start: 2026-10-01. Country: United States of America.

Does it excite you to work with building consumer-first strategies for obesity and metabolic health, and do you have experience with growing consumer-facing healthcare brands in a regulated, prescription-only environment? Do you like the challenge of starting with a blank slate? If this sounds like you, and you are ready to take on a broad area of responsibilities, then you could be our new colleague.

Your new position As Head of US Consumer (Metabolic & Obesity Franchise), the role builds and leads Zealand Pharma’s global consumer strategy across an emerging obesity and metabolic health portfolio, including petrelintide in collaboration with Roche/Genentech.

The position shapes consumer-driven demand (especially in primary care), integrated patient activation, and persistence—bridging consumer brand building with biotech rigor and compliance. This is a hands-on, build-and-scale leadership role, US-based with regular travel to Denmark and key partner hubs.

Because the portfolio is co-commercialized with Genentech (Roche), you will also carry the ideas into the alliance and push a large, sophisticated partner organization to be braver than the category norm1 …