CMO Professional within Clinical Trials (Maternity leave cover)

Are you passionate about working with contract manufacturing organisations within Clinical Trial Supply Chain and thriving in a dynamic and international environment with many stakeholders? Would you like to be part of a rapidly growing part of Novo Nordisk’s PSQ&IT (Product Supply, Quality & IT) organization coordinating multiple activities together with a dedicated team of colleagues? Then we have a job for you!

The position

As CMO Professional within Clinical Trials, your overall objective is to ensure stable and reliable planning, production (packaging and labelling) and release of products outsourced to our CMOs. This is done in close collaboration with our multiple areas as Quality, Production planning and Sourcing.

Your job as responsible for the CMO is to oversee the clinical trial supply chain, improve collaboration, ensure efficient planning and priorities with all stakeholders. Furthermore, will you be involved/responsible for handling of deviations, change requests, customer complaints and other important tasks are done timely, to ensure products can be released and shipped to the patients in a good flow. You will have a wide range of stakeholders, both internally in Novo Nordisk and at our CMOs.

Additionally, you will participate in some of our reporting processes e.g. monthly forecast, performance analysis, reporting on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and driving/participating in optimization projects. In this role, you will need good communication skills and a structured approach to the tasks at hand, to gain commitment from both internal and external stakeholders. Stakeholder management is a central part of this role. You will be responsible for ensuring timely and adequate information to both internal stakeholders and CMOs during trial conduct. You are expected to contribute to identifying and proactively engage in implementing standardization, optimization, and simplification of processes. All the task in this job requires a quality mindset. We offer you an exciting job in an international environment with the possibility to play an important role in Novo Nordisk contract operations, together with our CMOs and with a broad network across Novo Nordisk.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in the role, we expect you to have:

·        A master´s degree within a relevant discipline, e.g. Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy, life science or similar

·        Two or more years of experience working in a pharmaceutical production environment, including experience with outsourcing of production and/or quality control processes

·        Excellent computer skills, being an advanced user of MS Excel, and the ability to handle several IT systems in daily operations

·        An analytical and structured mindset, with the ability to thrive working with frequently changing priorities and tight deadlines

·        Experience with process optimization and LEAN tools, and a natural inclination toward continuous improvement

Your outgoing personality and your communication style make it easy for you to establish and maintain trustful relations across a diverse organization, where many people have backgrounds very different from yours. You are great at engaging and managing stakeholders and you are excellent in your communication skills with fluency in written and spoken English.

About the department

Supply Chain Planning (SCP) is a key member of Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Clinical Supplies (CS) and is vital in bringing new drugs to market. Our responsibility is to ensure that trial products are available on time and in the right quality and quantity for all clinical trials conducted globally by Novo Nordisk. We operate in the combined field of supply chain management and regulatory requirements within drug development.

Working at Novo Nordisk
In Novo Nordisk, your skills, your commitment and your ambitions help us improve many people's lives. In return, we offer you the opportunity to work with talented colleagues, and a wide range of opportunities for professional and personal development.

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact Manager Christina Engmose Håkansson at cpse@novonordisk.com.

Deadline
9 June 2025.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
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We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

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.