Safety Surveillance Analytics Specialist (Maternity Cover)

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring robust and consistent signal detection in a growing and complex portfolio? Are you passionate about the science behind safety surveillance? Then come join us in a role where your analytical expertise directly protects patients and strengthens our ability to detect safety signals across a rapidly growing portfolio.

Your new role

As a Safety Surveillance Analytical Specialist, you will act as a methodological and process expert, ensuring that our signal detection analyses are scientifically robust, consistently applied, and aligned with regulatory expectations. This is a 1-year maternity cover position where you'll play a pivotal role in strengthening our signal detection framework while working under the guidance of our signal detection principal specialist.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and further developing signal detection and signal validation analysis strategies ensuring consistency across studies and therapeutic areas
• Acting as a methodological expert and advisor on signal detection approaches, including statistical, trend based and exploratory methods, and their applicability to different data sources
• Supporting and improving the signal detection process, including governance, and documentation
• Providing expert input into surveillance plans, analysis plans, and responses to complex internal or Health Authority requests
• Contributing to the definition of requirements for analytical tools and surveillance systems used in signal detection
• Driving continuous improvement initiatives related to signal detection methodology, and processes,
• Delivering training and guidance to colleagues on signal detection methodology, analysis strategies, and best practices within clinical trial surveillance

Your new department

In Research & Development, you'll be part of a unit that explores bold scientific ideas and advances them into clinical testing. We combine curiosity, AI tools, and human data to develop transformative therapies. Through collaboration and operational excellence, we shape and deliver an innovative pipeline to meet future patient needs.

Within Research & Development, you'll join our Safety Surveillance Analytics team, a specialized group dedicated to ensuring the highest standards of safety monitoring across our expanding therapeutic portfolio. Working closely with Safety Surveillance Advisors, Safety Data Scientists, and key stakeholders across the organization, you'll contribute to a culture where scientific rigor meets practical impact, and where your expertise helps protect millions of patients worldwide.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for a scientifically curious and methodologically strong professional who is motivated by improving how safety surveillance is performed. Furthermore, you'll bring with you:

• A master’s degree in life- or natural sciences
• Solid experience in safety surveillance and signal detection
• Demonstrated expertise in signal detection methodology, analysis strategies, and interpretation of complex safety data
• Sound understanding of the signal management lifecycle and relevant regulatory frameworks (e.g., GVP and GCP)
• Experience translating scientific and analytical concepts into clear guidance, processes, and training material
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work independently in a senior expert role
• Comfort advising and influencing across organizational boundaries

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. In R&D, you'll be part of a community that values scientific excellence and collaborative problem-solving – where your analytical expertise touches the lives of millions of patients around the world, and where breakthroughs happen through perseverance, curiosity, and the willingness to challenge what's been done before.

Deadline

6th of April 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.