Position

Senior Clinical Science Director, New Therapy Areas

Stellenbeschreibung

Stellenbeschreibung

Lage

Zurich, Switzerland

Stellenkategorie

Clinical Development and Medical

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Senior Clinical Science Director, New Therapy Areas

About the department
As a key driver of Novo Nordisk’s future growth, International Operations (IO) is the largest operational unit in Novo Nordisk and covers more than 190 countries and 95% of the world’s population. Around 430 million people are living with diabetes in these countries and an estimated 570 million live with obesity. We serve 25 million people each day living with chronic diseases. Novo Nordisk International Operations, Strategic Operations, is head quartered in Zürich, Switzerland.

The position
You will be responsible to lead the scientific activities  planned for all projects within the new therapy areas (TAs), encompassing CVD, CKD and Alzheimer’s disease. You will gather insights from relevant KOLs across IO and facilitate medical guidance to the clinical operations teams, enabling them to successfully deliver on trials within these areas.
To ensure IO Clinical Development delivers on all projects within the new TAs, you will ensure that dedicated medical staff are available across all 16 clinical development centres (CDCs) across IO to support projects. It will be your responsibility to ensure that teams will be fully trained, with the right operational framework. 
You will lead the new TA medical teams in a matrix environment, setting direction, ensuring alignment, best practise sharing and providing support, when required. You will identify and develop a network of KOLs across IO, who will advise and guide entry into these new TAs and work with the new TA medical teams across CDCs to highlight key medical issues that could impact operational deliverables.
As a subject matter expert within the new TAs, you will ensure that the new medical teams are equally trained, to enable them to act as local medical experts for the local clinical teams and investigators. 
To ensure robust scientific support to clinical operations teams, you will engage with the medical and scientific teams for the new TAs within Global Medical Affairs and IO-SO, Clinical Medical and Regulatory (CMR) heads in the regions and CDCs within IO.
You demonstrate independence, innovation and initiative, when prioritising planning and performing tasks either assigned by management or initiated by oneself. You always perform tasks in compliance with Novo Nordisk Way of Management.

Qualifications
You hold an MD or PhD degree in healthcare and bring a strong background in clinical research and clinical operations. 
You are ideally trained and certified in ICH GCP.
You bring a strong clinical background, with experience managing patients and a good knowledge of the pharmaceutical drug development process.
You bring a strong scientific background, are comfortable at presenting to the scientific community and can pick up in-depth scientific knowledge related to new TAs with ease.
You demonstrate cross-functional leadership experience and can successfully communicate and negotiate in a matrix environment.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk offers an excellent inclusive culture with a focus on healthy living, flexible working and corporate social responsibility activities. The Novo Nordisk Way includes our vision, our values and our commitment to ensure we are a great place to work and we want you to be a part of that!
At Novo Nordisk we recognise 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 the communities we operate in.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. We are happy to discuss flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs.

Contact 

If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your motivation letter, CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool.

Deadline 

Please submit your application via our online application tool by Thursday 10th June 2021.

Millions rely on us 

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. 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. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.