(Senior) Principal Scientist, Toxicopathology

(Senior) Principal Scientist, Toxicopathology

Shape the future of nonclinical safety assessment. As Principal Scientist in Toxicopathology at Novo Nordisk, you'll be the trusted expert guiding our most critical safety evaluations—influencing decisions that protect patients before therapies ever reach them. Your deep expertise and scientific leadership will span from evaluating toxicopathology findings to regulatory interactions, ensuring the highest standards of pathology assessment across our global pipeline.

Your new role

In this pivotal position, you'll lead toxicopathology excellence across exploratory, nonclinical, and GLP studies. You'll be the key scientific voice—solving complex safety challenges, driving discipline development, and ensuring our pathology data meets the highest standards for regulatory submission.

Furthermore, you will:

• Act as Sponsor's Peer Reviewing Pathologist (PRP), evaluating toxicopathology findings, the pathology report and overseeing the quality and credibility of pathology data across internal and Contract Research Organization studies (both GLP and non-GLP)
• Lead pathology data responsibility across assigned projects, including evaluation, interpretation, and safety assessment for both study reports and regulatory submissions to health authorities
• Develop and advance toxicopathology methods and practices, ensuring optimal techniques, up-to-date terminology, and diagnoses applied across projects and the broader organization
• Mentor and supervise peers and junior colleagues, fostering scientific excellence and knowledge-sharing within the discipline
• Bridge toxicology and pathology expertise across project teams, presenting scientific findings at design reviews, safety committees, and departmental meetings
• Help advance digital pathology capabilities
• Prepare regulatory documents and lead interactions with health authorities on pathology and safety matters
• Participate in due diligence activities, evaluating nonclinical pathology and toxicology data to inform business decisions

Your new department

In Research & Development, you'll be part of a unit that explores 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.

The Pathology & Imaging department sits in our nonclinical safety assessment area. Working from our site in Måløv with global reach, you'll collaborate across Contract Research Organizations, regulatory authorities, and internal project teams to ensure rigorous, scientifically sound safety evaluations that protect patients and advance our pipeline.

Your skills & qualifications

We're seeking a toxicopathologist with deep scientific expertise, strong self-leadership, and the ability to influence across complex stakeholder landscapes.

You bring:

• 6+ years of professional experience in toxicopathology with demonstrated expertise in nonclinical safety assessment and GLP compliance
• Proven ability to reach consensus and convince internal stakeholders—including senior management—through strong scientific reasoning, even when perspectives differ
• Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to translate complex biological and safety issues into clear, well-balanced risk assessments for diverse audiences
• Strong business acumen combined with a highly proactive mindset; you identify problems, adapt methods creatively, and establish new approaches within your field of expertise

• Strong attention to detail, combined with the ability to deeply engage with and thoroughly assess complex pathological material
• Digitally savvy, with interest and practical experience in digital pathology and related technologies, and the capability to help drive implementation and adoption of digital and computational approaches within toxicopathology

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively as a team player across global, multinational environments, building strong networks and collaborating with colleagues at all levels
• Role model qualities: showing initiative, enthusiasm, flexibility toward change, and independence in driving processes forward

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. In Research & Development, your scientific rigor directly impacts millions of patients—whether through rigorous safety assessment that brings therapies to market, or through innovation that challenges what's possible.

Deadline

Deadline is 25 March 2026. We look forward to receiving your application.

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.