Senior Product Owner

Do you have a passion for digitalisation and product ownership? Are you an experienced leader of cross-functional teams, eager to make a real impact in clinical development? Do you want to contribute to bringing innovative medicines to more patients around the world?

Then you could be the Senior Product Owner within Site Facing Clinical Systems we are looking for.

At Novo Nordisk, we are scaling our digital capabilities to conduct more clinical studies globally. If you’re driven by solving complex business challenges through technology and want to be part of a company that’s making a difference in patients’ lives, we would love to hear from you. 

The position
As Senior Product Owner for one of our site-facing clinical systems, you will play a central role in shaping how technology enables clinical operations. You will lead a cross-functional Development and Operations (DevOps) team, working within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) to ensure ef-fective, GCP-compliant execution of clinical projects. Your responsibilities will include evaluating how technology can address current and future business needs, while aligning with Novo Nordisk’s long-term digital enablement strategy. You will collaborate with a broad range of inter-nal and external stakeholders who will rely on your business insight and your ability to connect operational needs with digital solutions and platforms.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:
• Acting as Product Owner for a scrum team working on one of our site-facing clinical sys-tems and collaborating closely with other relevant projects
•    Ensuring continuous product discovery while incorporating end-user perspectives
•    Maintaining an overview and prioritising upcoming activities
•    Analysing requirements and working with clinical operations and IT to implement priori-tised activities
•    Driving risk and impact assessments of new requirements
•    Defining and driving operational roll-out, support, and communication to end-users
•    Challenging future needs and ways of working 

In your role, you will work closely with product managers, scrum masters, subject matter experts, sas well as internal and external business users to understand business needs, as well as with colleagues in Development IT who handle IT development. You will also collaborate with relevant software vendors

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have:

• An academic background in life sciences, or any other relevant field where validated sys-tems are common as part of a regulated environment
• At least 5 years of experience in product management throughout the entire lifecycle of a clinical system—from ideation and development to implementation, maintenance, and eventual sunsetting of a system
• Experience in trial management is considered a plus, along with familiarity with Agile methodologies and product development practices in a regulated environment
• Strong stakeholder management competencies, with the ability to present complex mat-ters clearly and precisely, combined with a holistic approach that distinguishes needs from wants and an eye for simplification
• You must be comfortable with challenging the status quo and making tough decisions. Above all, you are driven and eager to create a real impact for the business

As a person, we are looking for a proactive, positive, and solution-oriented candidate with a strong emphasis on product management capabilities.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies globally. We share a pas-sion for changing patients' lives and are always looking for talented individuals to join us in this effort. At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change; we drive it. We embrace the spirit of experi-mentation and strive for excellence without fixating on perfection. Your development is im-portant to us; training and personal development are key tools for continuous growth.

Contact
For further information, please contact Michele de Gier Gustafsson, Head of People & Capabili-ties, at +45 30 75 79 between 15:00 and 17:00 CET or via email at mcgu@novonordisk.com.

Please be aware that the Hiring Manager will be unavailable for calls between May 30th and June 10th.

About the Department
The position as Product Owner is based in the Site Collaboration department within the Patient & Site Technology area, part of a unit called Process Transformation and Digitalisation, Global Trial Portfolio. Here, we leverage cutting-edge digital technology, data, and processes. Novo Nordisk drives clinical trials in more than 60+ countries and collaborates with over 10,000 sites at hospi-tals and clinics. Digitalisation is essential to our success, and our aspiration is to lead the digitali-sation of clinical development to provide innovative medicines faster for patients living with se-vere chronic diseases.

Our team has solid experience in developing and delivering digital processes and systems to support the Clinical Drug Development, and we work closely with stakeholders in headquarters in Denmark, Bangalore (India), and affiliates worldwide to ensure our new processes are simple, robust and fit-for-purpose. In the Site Collaboration department, we are 10+ dedicated colleagues striving to transform, digitise, optimise, and enhance the ways of working within clinical studies.

Deadline
Please submit your application no later than June 2, 2025.

Note that relevant candidates may be invited for interviews on an ongoing basis before the 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.