Clinical Operations Manager - CRA Team

Are you passionate about clinical trial management? Do you have a track record in leading teams to success? If so, then we might have the right opportunity for you!

We are looking for a Clinical Operations Manager to join us in the Warsaw, to lead our superb CRA team in Cardiovascular & Emerging Therapy Areas Department in Clinical Development Centre Poland. If you are ready to make a significant impact, read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As our Clinical Operations Manager, you will primarily be responsible for leading our CRA team to deliver specific trials within the Cardiovascular & Emerging Therapy Areas by implementing the tactics of our Clinical Development Centre (CDC).

As part of the position, you will:

• Ensure timely and quality delivery of therapy area-specific clinical trials at CDC level through effective team management to meet our trial targets, including risk management
• Lead the team members in onboarding, talent management, people development, and performance management in alignment with our objectives
• Build an effective team operational model and manage resources as well as workload efficiently
• Drive therapy area level improvement initiatives and change management to achieve overall CDC efficiency.
• Foster strong cross-functional cooperation across teams.

Due to the nature of the role, we expect you to be able to come on site at least 3 times a week.

Qualifications

We are searching for skilled communicators who aim at lifting their team and are able to navigate in complex environments. In order to thrive in this role, meeting the following qualifications is expected:

• A Master's degree in life or natural sciences (preferred)

• At least 4 years of experience in clinical trial management and at least 1 year of people management experience
• A strong track record in clinical trials execution within a multifunctional team and training
• The ability to leverage connections with internal and external stakeholders to make things happen
• Fluency in English and Polish – both in oral and written form.

We are searching for skilled communicators who aim at lifting their team and are capable of navigating in complex and ambiguous environments, while delivering ambitious results through effective management.

About the Department

The role sits within the Clinical Development Centre (CDC) in Poland, Warsaw and reports directly into the head of the Cardiovascular and Emerging Therapy Area department and you will be leading a dedicated CRA team of 8-10 individuals.

Our team is responsible for running all clinical development activities from the initial planning of clinical trials to authority submission. We provide resources, processes, and competencies to all development projects, ensuring process alignment, optimisation, and competency development. Our collaborative and supportive atmosphere fosters knowledge sharing and training across trial management and medical staff.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a 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

Please apply to the role via our careers site as unfortunately we don’t accept directly sent resumes.

Deadline

Kindly apply before 24th May, 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.