Epidemiology Manager (12-month maternity cover)

Søborg, Denmark or London, UK

Are you looking for an opportunity to apply your epidemiological expertise to directly impact patient safety and regulatory decision-making? Do you enjoy translating complex safety and regulatory questions into high-quality evidence that supports real-world use of medicines? Then this may be the opportunity for you.

Your new role

As an Epidemiology Manager in R&D Real-World Evidence – Regulatory & Safety (R&S), you will play a key role in planning, driving, and delivering post-authorisation safety studies (PASS) and other regulatory- and safety-driven real-world evidence (RWE) activities.

You will translate health authority commitments and evolving safety questions into robust, fit-for-purpose epidemiological studies and evidence outputs. Working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, you will support patient safety, maintain marketing authorisations, and enable timely regulatory decision-making.

Your primary responsibilities include

Leading post-authorisation safety studies (PASS)

• Act as scientific lead for secondary PASS based on real-world data and contribute to primary and affiliate-led PASS
• Translate safety concerns, regulatory commitments, and health authority expectations into study designs, protocols, and analyses
• Ensure high-quality, scientifically robust and operationally efficient study delivery
• Driving delivery and cross-functional collaboration

Coordinate PASS activities across Global Patient Safety, Global Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Operations, and external partners

• Support planning, outsourcing, vendor oversight, and execution across the study lifecycle
• Ensure alignment of timelines, priorities, and deliverables across stakeholders

Translating regulatory and safety needs into evidence

• Turn regulatory and pharmacovigilance questions into clear and actionable RWE strategies and analyses
• Partner with epidemiologists, data scientists, and external collaborators to deliver timely insights
• Ensure delivery aligned with regulatory commitments, safety priorities, and product lifecycle needs

Managing priorities and execution

• Handle multiple parallel projects and stakeholders in a dynamic environment
• Prioritise effectively to ensure fit-for-purpose delivery
• Contribute to efficient and scalable ways of working across projects

Your new department

R&D Real-World Evidence – Regulatory & Safety plays a central role in supporting regulatory submissions, health authority interactions, and patient safety decisions across the product lifecycle.

The team focuses on generating regulatory-grade real-world evidence, with a strong emphasis on post-authorisation safety studies (PASS) and safety evidence generation.

Your skills & qualifications

• MSc, PhD, or equivalent training in Epidemiology
• Experience in pharmacoepidemiology or drug safety studies
• Hands-on experience working with real-world data (e.g. registries, EMR, claims data)
• Ability to translate safety, regulatory, or clinical questions into practical study designs and deliverables
• Strong experience working in cross-functional teams
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, rare determination, and constant curiosity. For over 100 years, this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 651,100 DKK to 956,900 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.

Contact

For further information, please contact Director Jane Møll Pedersen at +45 3075 3759 .

Deadline

28th June, 2026. 

Applications will be evaluated continuously when received and candidates may be called for interview before the deadline.

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