Senior Clinical Supply Manager

Are you ready to ensure that patients worldwide receive uninterrupted access to innovative clinical trial treatments?
Join Novo Nordisk and play a central role in driving clinical supply strategies across global trials. This is your opportunity to combine operational excellence, stakeholder collaboration, and supply expertise to support life-changing medicines.

Your new role

As Senior Clinical Supply Manager, you will take ownership of clinical supply strategies across global trials, ensuring delivery excellence from study start-up through to close-out. You will act as a trusted partner within cross-functional trial teams, balancing operational execution with strategic oversight to secure uninterrupted supply to patients.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Clinical Operations, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Manufacturing, and external partners, contributing to key decisions that shape clinical trial success.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and executing robust clinical supply strategies across complex, global trials to ensure timely and compliant delivery
• Acting as the Clinical Supplies representative in Trial Teams, timelines, and key supply decisions
• Driving operational excellence by monitoring trial performance, supply KPIs, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Managing and overseeing external partners such as CROs and CMOs, ensuring quality deliverables and strong collaboration
• Proactively identifying risks and leading mitigation actions to maintain uninterrupted supply and high-quality trial execution

You will operate in a dynamic, international environment where your ability to align stakeholders and translate complex challenges into practical solutions will be key to success.

Your new department

You will join Supply Chain Planning (SCP), an integral part of CMC Clinical Supplies at Novo Nordisk. The department plays a vital role in ensuring that clinical trial products are available globally at the right time, quality, and quantity.

Working at the intersection of supply chain management and regulatory requirements, SCP supports the full clinical development lifecycle. The environment is highly collaborative, offering strong exposure across functions and opportunities to contribute to the development of future treatments.

Your skills and qualifications

To succeed in this role, you bring strong expertise in clinical trial supply combined with a proactive and structured mindset. You are comfortable working in complex, global environments and skilled at building relationships across functions.

We expect you to have:

• A MSc in Pharmacy or a related scientific/technical discipline, along with solid experience in clinical trial supply within pharma or biotech
• Proven experience supporting global clinical trials across multiple phases, from start-up to close-out
• Strong knowledge of clinical development processes, ICH-GCP, and GMP/GDP requirements
• Experience with supply forecasting, IRT systems, packaging and labelling, and vendor management
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence without formal authority

As a person, you are structured, collaborative, and solution-oriented. You take ownership, thrive in dynamic environments, and maintain both attention to detail and a strong overview of priorities. Your ability to navigate complexity and keep patient impact at the centre of decisions will set you apart.

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

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from DKK 651,000 to 956,900, 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

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact Christina Engmose Håkansson at cpse@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

09 August 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.