Contract & Budget Specialist

What if your attention to detail and negotiation skills could directly accelerate access to life-changing treatments for patients around the world?

Your new department

You'll be part of a unit that explores bold scientific ideas and advances them into clinical testing. We combine curiosity, AI tools, and human data to develop transformative therapies. Through collaboration and operational excellence, we shape and deliver an innovative pipeline to meet future patient needs.

Within Clinical Development – Business Operations, you'll join a dynamic team that ensures the operational backbone of our clinical trials runs smoothly. We bridge strategy and execution, managing the critical contracts, budgets, and vendor relationships that enable Trial Managers to focus on bringing new treatments to patients. Given the current growth in clinical studies, our work is fast-paced, detail-oriented, and essential to accelerating patient access.

Your new role

We are looking for a hands-on Contract & Budget Specialist to join our Clinical Development Business Operations team. This role is highly operational, requires strong ownership, and the ability to manage multiple negotiations in parallel with high attention to detail. You'll be responsible for the end-to-end creation, negotiation and execution of clinical trial budgets and contracts, working directly with clinical sites and closely with Trial Managers, Legal and Finance.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Building clinical trial budgets from scratch based on protocol requirements
• Generating and maintaining Fair Market Value (FMV) analysis for Mexico
• Negotiating budgets directly with clinical sites (public and private)
• Acting as contract owner, coordinating with Legal through internal platforms and tracking contract lifecycle (approvals, signatures, renewals)
• Uploading and managing budgets in internal systems for Global approval
• Maintaining accurate budget and contract tracking to ensure compliance and financial consistency
• Communicating status clearly and proactively to Trial Managers and stakeholders
• Participating in audits/inspections related to contracts, budgets or payments

Required experience

You'll thrive in a high-paced, dynamic environment and bring strong organizational skills combined with financial acumen. We're looking for someone with:

• 2–4 years of experience in clinical research, budgeting, finance, contracts or similar roles
• Strong Excel skills (tables/pivots required) and comfort working with numbers, financial scenarios and cost analysis
• High level of organization, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple negotiations in parallel
• Strong negotiation skills – the ability to negotiate firmly but diplomatically, including saying "no" when outside FMV
• Excellent communication skills and resilience to manage demanding stakeholders
• Background in Finance, Administration, Clinical Research, or related fields (experience negotiating directly with sites is a nice to have)

Working at Novo Nordisk

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.

What we offer

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.

More information

For more information, visit novonordisk.com, Facebook, Instagram, X, LinkedIn and YouTube. To complete your application, click on "Apply now", attach your CV and follow the instructions.

Deadline

Please apply before May 04th, 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

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.