Drug Product Planner, Temporary Position, 12 months

Drug Product Planner, Temporary Position, 12 months

Clinical Supplies Trial Set-up

Måløv, Denmark, Onsite

Drive reliable clinical trial supply planning and help ensure drug product availability across global studies where timing, shelf life, stakeholder alignment, and supply accuracy matter every day.

Your new role

As a Drug Product Planner, you will play an important role in securing drug product availability for Novo Nordisk clinical trials worldwide.

You will work with supply and demand planning across clinical studies and help ensure that products are available in time to support trial execution. A key part of the role will be creating and maintaining production plans, coordinating forecast and batch availability, and balancing supply and demand while minimising waste.

The role sits close to both clinical supply set-up and production-related stakeholders. This means you will work with planning dependencies, limited shelf life, changing trial needs, and several internal stakeholders across Clinical Supplies, CMC, Global Manufacturing Supply, Global Trial Planning, and production facilities.

You should therefore be motivated by solving complex planning puzzles, working with data and assumptions, and following up with stakeholders to ensure that plans remain realistic, aligned, and executable.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Creating and maintaining production plans in alignment with the production facilities in relevant planning systems
• Securing drug product availability to enable execution of clinical trials according to supply strategies
• Balancing supply and demand within inventory policies to minimise waste
• Optimising trial usage of batches based on remaining shelf life, quantity, and FEFO principles
• Coordinating forecasts, order confirmations, and batch release with relevant production and supply stakeholders
• Chairing supply and demand meetings with key internal stakeholders
• Maintaining accurate planning data in relevant systems
• Identifying and contributing to process improvements within the team and department
• Ensuring compliance with internal procedures, standards, and relevant GMP/GCP requirements

Your new department

Clinical Supplies Trial Set-up is part of Clinical Supplies in CMC Development. We are responsible for preparing clinical trials for execution by ensuring that trial products can be planned, packaged, labelled, distributed, and supplied effectively across global clinical studies

You will join the Supply Chain Set-up area, where we work with supply chain set-up and drug product planning for clinical development projects across more than 40 countries. The team works closely with stakeholders across Clinical Supplies, CMC, Global Manufacturing Supply, Global Trial Planning, and production facilities.

The working environment is analytical, collaborative, and highly regulated. You should therefore be comfortable working with planning details, changing assumptions, stakeholder dependencies, and documentation requirements. Good judgement is needed to balance supply certainty, shelf life, inventory levels, and waste reduction.

Your skills and qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine that you:

• Hold a bachelor’s or master’s degree within Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Logistics, Economics, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field
• Have hands-on experience with supply chain planning, logistics planning, inventory planning, demand/supply planning, batch planning, production planning, or similar
• Have experience working with planning processes where timing, lead times, stock levels, and availability are important
• Have strong analytical skills and are comfortable working with data, assumptions, scenarios, and planning tools
• Can coordinate with stakeholders across functions and follow up to ensure progress and alignment
• Have solid system skills and are confident working with Microsoft Office and planning-related systems
• Communicate clearly in English, both written and spoken
• Are fluent in Danish or able to work effectively in a Danish-speaking team environment

Experience from pharma, clinical supply, GMP/GCP-regulated environments, FMCG, retail supply chain, food, or other industries working with products with limited shelf life will be considered an advantage, but it is not a requirement.

As a person, you are structured, proactive, and comfortable working with details while keeping the broader supply picture in mind. You take ownership of your deliverables, follow up when something is unclear, and are motivated by solving complex planning challenges together with stakeholders. You are a strong team player who contributes positively to collaboration and team dynamics.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk, you’ll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 570,200.00 to 838,100.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Deadline

July 26th, 2026

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.