Novo Nordisk South Africa, one of the best companies to work for
24 May 2021
Venkat Kalyan, Vice President and General Manager Novo Nordisk South Africa.
Novo Nordisk South Africa has been recently certified as one of the Best Places To Work in South Africa for 2021. We went and interviewed Venkat Kalyan, Vice President and General Manager Novo Nordisk South Africa, who has provided us insights into what makes the company an employer of choice in South Africa.
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Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and 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 rare endocrine diseases. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. We employ more than 45,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 169 countries.