International Medical Director

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Category: Clinical Development

Location: Søborg, Capital Region of Denmark, DK

Are you a medical doctor with extensive experience in clinical drug development and are you committed to making a difference for patients with new and innovative treatments?

If so, this is your chance to be part of a team of talented medical doctors in a great and inspiring working environment. Apply today

The position
As an experienced International Medical Director in the Obesity team, you will get the opportunity to:

• Drive the planning and design of clinical studies and provide medical oversight during study conduct.
• Become a Global Project Team member and thus help drive the project(s) forward.
• Interpret data including assessment of benefit/risk, document results, and support regulatory submissions and interactions.
• Present internally and externally and co-author relevant publications.
• Take part in setting the strategic direction for the area and mentor and guide younger colleagues.

You will work in close collaboration with many other skill areas such as trial management, biostatistics, global patient safety, and regulatory affairs. We also interact with colleagues in regional offices as well as external stakeholders including regulatory authorities, Health Care Professionals, and therapeutic experts.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

• A medical degree and clinical research experience, ideally through a PhD or similar.
• Ample experience with clinical development in the pharmaceutical or biotech industry.
• Natural flair for building strong network(s) internally and externally.
• Either leadership experience or informal leadership skills.
• Eagerness to learn and disseminate and share learnings actively within project, department, and therapeutic area.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

On a personal level, you thrive in a dynamic and international environment with focus set on quality and innovation. You have strong coordination, planning, and collaborative capabilities combined with flexibility, commitment, and ability to prioritise tasks. You enjoy working with a high level of complexity and have solid problem-solving capabilities to support this. Most importantly, you are a lifelong learner welcoming the opportunity to develop new skills, gain further experience within drug development, and understand yourself even better.

We value our team's good spirit; therefore, we appreciate curiosity, empathy, and a good sense of humour.

About the department
In Medical & Science, Obesity we are responsible for the planning and execution of global clinical studies and for medical and scientific support to health authority interactions. 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.

Contact
For further information, please contact hiring manager Ida Carøe Helmark at

Deadline
6 January 2025

Please note that applications are screened on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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 the communities we operate in. Together, we're life-changing.