Senior Director

Job Description   

Do you want to be a part of the diabetes therapeutic area leading a high-performing team? Are you passionate about leadership and engaging in cross portfolio and departmental development and leadership activities?

Join us and you will be working with highly talented colleagues, every one of whom strives passionately to create better treatments and care for our patients.

In Clinical Development and Project leadership we are responsible for managing clinical drug development worldwide from early development phases through large clinical development programmes, product approval and market introduction until discontinuation from the market. We ensure medical and scientific documentation for clinical submissions and maintenance of authorisations according to global standards, regulations, and business ethics. 
  

The position 

As Senior Director for one of our diabetes teams, you will be leading and managing a team of highly skilled Medical Specialists and guiding them in their daily work. You will manage relationships with internal and external key collaborators and stakeholders, including Novo Nordisk affiliates. It will be your responsibility to ensure the medical deliveries for key development and life cycle management projects.   
You will report to the Vice President of Medical and Science, become a member of the area’s leadership team, and collaborate closely with the other leaders in the area. You will take an active part in developing the area as well as a lead role in various improvement projects, including process optimisations. 
 

Qualifications 

To thrive and succeed you:

• A Medical Doctor by training and have documented clinical and scientific merits from a Ph.D. degree or equivalent, preferably within an area related to our research.
• Experience in setting direction, leading, motivating, and developing team members.
• Strong understanding of drug development and have experience from pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Have a proven track record of executing clinical trials and interacting with health and regulatory authorities.
• Are fluent in professional English.

You can set direction, lead, and motivate your team and have a strong wish to invest in personal development of your team members. As a person, you enjoy a setting with a high level of complexity and have solid problem-solving capabilities. You find it motivating to lead a high-performing team through creating psychological safety, making empowerment work and setting clear direction.

You may expect travelling activity of approximately 10-20 days per year. 

About the department 

In Medical & Science Diabetes, we are responsible for the planning and execution of global clinical trials and for medical and scientific support to health authority interactions within the Diabetes portfolio. We are instrumental in providing documentation and interpretation of clinical data leading to New Drug Applications (NDAs) and variation applications, periodic safety updates on marketed drugs, and drugs in clinical development, market access and external scientific communication. The department is based in a project-centric organisation, and internally we work in cross-functional teams. Our key external stakeholders are the scientific community and medical experts, regulatory authorities, and market access institutions. 

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.

At Novo Nordisk, your skills, dedication, and ambition help us change lives for the better. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development in a modern flexible work environment. 

Contact 

For further information, please contact Vice President, Louise Færch (LOFC@Novonordisk.com) 

Deadline 

Deadline is 8. February 2025 

Please note that applications are screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible as the advert may close before indicated deadline.

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 in 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.