Strategic Real World Data Manager

Are you passionate about data integrity and quality? Do you have a knack for fostering a culture of data stewardship? If yes, join us as the Strategic Real World Data Manager at Novo Nordisk and play a pivotal role in ensuring the integrity, quality, and accessibility of our research data. 

Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position
As a Strategic Real World Data Manager, you will be an integral part of Real-World Science and partly responsible for the data strategy and data foundation in Data Science. In collaboration with stakeholders across Data Science but also legal, procurement and IT, the candidate will be responsible for strategically identifying relevant clinical data sources, assessing quality and bringing the data in-house for the data scientists to generate valuable insights from the data. 

This position will also focus on developing new processes and governance for additional stakeholders (including but not limited to  Research & Early Development) to leverage RWD. This position will balance between executing on existing processes and strategies, and on developing and driving forward new projects that are not in our current ways of working. 

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Lead collaborations across Data Science and the broader organisation to identify data gaps and needs for projects leveraging RWD
• Identify relevant sources of data that can close these data gaps, conduct quality assessment and contract negotiation
• Collaborate with legal, finance, procurement to execute on data contracts, collaborating with data privacy and IT to ensure data are governed appropriately 
• Create and maintain a relevant internal stakeholder network as well as an external vendor network
• Ensure documentation is in accordance with requirements and addresses discrepancies as required
• Generate guidance on various tracks to help facilitate and execute novel RWD projects across product lifecycle

This position reports to the Associate Director of RWD Assets. Internal relationships include data scientists, epidemiologists, leaders and specialists across Data Science, clinical trial teams, legal, compliance, IT and others across US, UK, and Denmark, and others so we expect someone with flexibility in terms of different time zones. 

Qualifications
To be a competitive candidate, you should have:

• A master’s degree from an accredited academic institution on an equivalency document and at least 5 years of relevant experience working in a similar position
• Understanding of data contracting, data privacy, data sourcing/scouting, data science
• Ability to network internally and advocate for role of department in RWD governance 
• Project management across diverse areas of an organisation that required change management
• Working knowledge of pharmaceutical product development
• General knowledge of clinical data and data science, commercially available data

As a person, you can communicate clearly, transparently, and escalate concerns when appropriate. 

Approximately 10% overnight travel (including international travel) will be expected. 

About the department
Our Research & Development organisation brings together the best minds in life science innovation. The teams located in facilities in Lexington, Watertown, Cambridge and Seattle reflect the full R&D continuum, from early research through late-stage clinical development. Here, we are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple modalities and therapeutic areas. 

We recognise that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. Our R&D hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here – to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact
For further information, please contact Lana Denysyk, Associate Director, at LNDK@novonordisk.com

Deadline
23 March 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.