Junior Start up Specialist

Are you ready to kick-start your career in clinical research with a global healthcare leader? Do you have a passion for ensuring clinical trials run smoothly from the very beginning? Would you like to grow in an innovative environment where your contributions truly matter?

If you answered yes, apply now for the Junior Clinical Start Up Specialist position at Novo Nordisk!

The Position

As our Junior Clinical Start-Up Specialist you will play a vital role in clinical research. You will manage start-up activities for clinical trials, ensuring compliance with local regulations, good clinical practice, Novo Nordisk procedures, and protocol requirements. Your work will focus on delivering reliable data and protecting study participants as you activate trial sites before the first patient visit in the country. Additionally, you will be responsible for executing regulatory submissions, including clinical trial applications, and ensuring timely approvals.

In addition, you will:

• Prepare and submit Clinical Trial Applications to Health Authorities and Ethics Committees, ensuring compliance with local regulations, trial protocols, and applicable guidelines
• Follow up on submissions until approvals are obtained, and collaborate with teams to answer queries and provide necessary documentation
• Maintain effective communication with Health Authorities and Ethics Committees, ensuring all trial team members are informed of submission status and timelines
• Manage document translations and approvals, including Clinical Trial product labels and directions for use
• Ensure timely updates in the Vault Regulatory Information Management system, maintain confidentiality, and comply with company policies and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

We’re looking for a detail-oriented individual who thrives in a team environment and is eager to collaborate with others. You should bring drive and motivation to your work, always taking initiative to learn and grow.

In addition, you should bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in a life science field, pharmacy, nursing, or a related qualification
• Basic GCP qualification
• First experience in industry-sponsored clinical research, whether in roles like start up specialist, clinical study coordinator with experience in start-up activities (submissions to MoH/EC), or other clinical trial regulatory submission roles
• Alternatively, recently started your journey as a clinical research associate
• Fluency in written and spoken Hebrew and English

About the Department

Join our vibrant team in Kfar Saba, Israel, where we are committed to advancing diabetes care through innovative scientific communication and strategic partnerships. Our department fosters a collaborative and dynamic atmosphere, where your contributions can make a significant impact on our mission. With a focus on building strong relationships with healthcare professionals and associations, we aim to drive positive change in the field of diabetes.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send us your CV in English language directly via our online application tool. 

We thank all applicants for their interest, however, only those candidates selected for inter-views will be contacted.

Deadline

Apply before 28 April 2025

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.