Senior Scientist for Solid State Characterisation

Are you passionate about bringing innovative, effective, and convenient oral biologics to patients worldwide? Oral Delivery Technologies I is expanding and seeking a new colleague to join our dynamic team. If you have an innovative mindset and thrive in an early research setting, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

The Position
Your main objective will be to ensure that we have high-quality characterization methods to assess oral formulations of therapeutic proteins and peptides. This will involve developing innovative techniques to meet the continuously evolving needs of new oral drug delivery concepts. Further, the role will also involve augmenting our most utilized characterization methods with a focus on making them faster, standardized, and automated.

Furthermore, you will:

• Participate in the progression of drug research projects, contribute with advanced characterization expertise, give input to project plans, present data, handle scientific challenges and discuss results and issues
• Design and execute laboratory experiments and interpret and report results with high accuracy and quality
• Drive digitalization activities and enhance the value of data collected 
• Develop good stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Identify better practices and create improvements in methods, techniques, and ways of working

Qualifications
To thrive and succeed, we expect you to have:

• PhD degree in Life Sciences (pharmaceutical sciences or other relevant discipline)
• Expertise with solid-state characterisation including particle size measurements (e.g. size distribution, morphology, etc.), thermal analysis (e.g. DSC and TGA), spectroscopy (e.g. Raman, FTIR), and powder diffraction (XRPD)
• Strong ability to interpret solid-state characteristics and their impact on formulation design
• Proficiency in using statistics, data analysis, and related methods to understand, analyse, and present data
• Basic computational skills (MATLAB, Python, C++) is a plus

As a person, you:

• Are a good team player, and consistently engage in constructive collaborations
• Have an open-minded and flexible mindset, while focusing on solutions and opportunities
• Value knowledge sharing with fellow scientists and laboratory technicians
• Have excellent communication skills and are good at engaging stakeholders in a cross-functional, multi-disciplinary setting

About the department 
Oral Delivery Technologies I department is composed of 11 dedicated and enthusiastic colleagues. Our collective goal is to develop orally delivered biologics, which can ultimately improve the lives of patients with serious chronic diseases. Here you’ll find a scientific environment that encourages innovation and ingenuity and provides the opportunity to work closely alongside highly skilled scientists to develop the next generation of oral biologics.
The department constitutes together with two other oral departments the section called Oral Delivery Technologies within the CVP area Biophysics and Formulation. The CVP area is a central part of Global Research Technologies located in Måløv, Copenhagen area, Denmark. The CVP area is responsible for biophysical screening and early oral and injectable formulation development of peptide and protein compounds and other modalities across the entire Novo Nordisk research portfolio. We aspire to drive innovation by applying cutting-edge technology and formulation expertise, and we are currently transforming the way we work by implementing automated workflows and using data science. 

Working at Novo Nordisk 
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 to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.
 

Contact
For further information, please contact Tina Bjeldskov Pedersen, Director of Oral Delivery Technologies 1 at +45 30 75 18 11 or Tobias Palle Holm, Research Scientist of Oral Delivery Technologies 1 +45 34 48 70 67.
 

Deadline
5 May 2024. 

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV.
 

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.