Experienced Epidemiologist, Real World Evidence

Are you looking for an opportunity to work in a highly professional, scientific, and global environment where you can use your solid epidemiological and project management skills working with real-world data in chronic diseases? Are you ready to join a team of data scientists and epidemiologists using advanced analytics to improve people’s lives? 

If yes, this may be your opportunity to pursue an exciting career in a global organisation. Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position
You will contribute with your in-depth knowledge of Epidemiology, your analytical skills and project management experience to a team of epidemiologists that, together with data scientists and stakeholders from across the organisation, create actionable evidence from real-world data, providing epidemiological evidence to a broad range of stakeholders across the organisation. 

Our data comes from digital health initiatives through partnerships with medical technology companies, in-licensed databases of electronic medical records or health insurance claims, observational studies, and many other sources.

The location of the position can be in our offices either at Søborg, Denmark, or King’s Cross London, UK.

Your main responsibilities will be to:

• Coordinate and oversee outsourced real-world data activities including studies and rapid analytics working closely with different vendors and varying stakeholders
• Conduct varied and diverse tasks within pharmaco- and classical epidemiology, including guidance on and contribution to study designs and analytical methods
• Identify and determine efficient data collection approaches and data sources relevant for the questions being investigated
• Design analyses that will be conducted in collaboration with data scientists based on the data from Novo Nordisk observational studies, in-licenced commercial data, or from external data sources
• Perform and guide complex epidemiological activities and participate in working groups requiring pharmacoepidemiology expertise
• Communicate your results and findings in a clear and convincing way both orally and in reports, as well as in peer reviewed scientific papers

Moreover, you will be part of setting direction for epidemiological activities in Novo Nordisk. You will be interacting with many stakeholders – either when communicating epidemiological considerations and results to internal stakeholders or through contact with research organisations, commercial partners and academic institutions involved in analysis of epidemiological data.

If you would like to maintain or develop your programming skills as an epidemiologist, you will be given the opportunity to execute insights and studies in R in collaboration with the department’s data scientists. 

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have:

• MSc or PhD, or equivalent qualification with training in Epidemiology
• Applied expertise in pharmacoepidemiologic research from the pharmaceutical, medical, or biological area
• Solid hands-on experience with analytical epidemiological projects and real-world data
• Proven project management experience working with external partners
• Professional proficiency in English 

We expect you to be ambitious and innovative. It is essential that you can use your good interpersonal and communication skills to achieve results together with others, both internally and when working with external project teams. You must thrive in a role where you have responsibility, you are proactive and work can independently as well as collaboratively. The job is globally oriented and excellent communication skills together with interest in co-operating with stakeholders across the globe is a must. 

About the department
In Development, we are responsible for managing clinical drug development worldwide from early development phases to product launch and beyond. We provide medical and scientific documentation for clinical submissions and authorities while ensuring that the process lives up to global standards, regulations, and business ethics.

The department of Real World Evidence is part of Data Science in Development and located in Søborg, Denmark. The department focuses on rapid data insights using descriptive methods and causal relationships from real-world data through advanced statistical methods. We analyse many different data sources to generate evidence to support clinical drug development projects and launched products. You will be joining a diverse team of highly professional, engaged, and motivated data scientists and epidemiologists across sites in Denmark, UK, and New Jersy, USA.

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, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact the Manager Alice Clark at ajcl@novonordisk.com.

Deadline
11 April 2025 
 

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.