Do you aspire to accelerate your leadership career within a global pharmaceutical company built on life-changing innovations? Does leading a department of incredibly talented and engaged colleagues from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds inspire you? Would you like to be a pivotal and valued business partner bringing our innovative treatments to people who need them? Then we have an exciting leadership opportunity for you as Associate Director to head up a department in Regulatory Affairs CMC Diabetes & Obesity. Apply today and join us for a life-changing career.

The position

We are looking for a leadership colleague that can set direction and have a strong drive to succeed together as a team to join RA CMC Diabetes and Obesity. As Associate Director, you will have the daily leadership responsibilities for the people in your team and set direction to ensure that we as a team provide best in class regulatory CMC strategies to the projects we support, thereby ensuring FAST submissions and approvals globally.

Our philosophy is clear: When you thrive, and are properly challenged in your position and job, you are the best and most valuable colleague. Being part of an organisation that works as a strategic business partner across various parts of a product’s life cycle, you have exciting opportunities in both our department and across the company and you are expected to carry on this mindset when developing yourself as well as your team.

Qualifications

You have leadership experience within pharmaceutical operations or drug development preferably from Regulatory Affairs. You have a strong interest in developing people and teams with a proven track record of strong results. You have excellent communication skills in English, and you are known as a leader who excels in driving change and innovation. You inspire your surroundings to exceed their best, and you will never compromise on the quality of our products nor the safety of our patients.

As a person you are ambitious and strive to become a future leader. You have a proactive mindset – you take the lead on overcoming challenges and show your team the way forward. You demonstrate a sound business understanding and you believe in empowering people around you, offering them constructive feedback and guidance to improve their performance. You are well-organised and have a good strategic focus. You can keep your spirits high even under pressure and as a skilled communicator you can collaborate at any organisational level.

About the department

RA CMC Diabetes & Obesity is part of Regulatory Affairs CMC & Device. We are 45 colleagues working in project teams from the early phases of drug development and throughout the life cycle of the marketed products worldwide. We are responsible for driving the regulatory affairs CMC strategies and submission activities related to the drug of the drug-device development projects as well as the increasing oral development pipeline.

Our organisation is dynamic and there is focus on improving work processes both in relation to implementation of new regulations and thinking “out of the box”, setting bold regulatory strategies enabling us to go above and beyond to the benefit of the business and the patients we serve. Our work is essential to keep bringing innovative, patient-centric, and best-in-class solutions to our patients. That calls for team spirit, collaborative minds, skilled colleagues, and a great focus on knowledge-sharing. So, look forward to being surrounded by talented, cooperative, and embracing teammates in a strong and empowering culture filled with humble people.

In Novo Nordisk Regulatory Affairs CMC & Device we are committed to being one step ahead. The robust strategies we build, prepare, and execute are based on our work across the entire drug development value chain. As we are involved from the earliest research and all the way to securing and maintaining commercial licenses for our medicines, we feel like the glue that connects everything. We strive to make our work and efforts valuable and impactful to both Novo Nordisk and the lives of our patients. All for the purpose of driving change and giving people access to best-in-class, life-changing treatments – faster than ever.

Working at Novo Nordisk

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 50,000 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 are life changing.

We are a global organisation and welcome Danish and international applicants, and we offer mobility and relocation support. The position is based in Søborg, Denmark.

Contact

For further information please contact, Sabine Tarp +45 3075 5404, Senior Director RA CMC Diabetes & Obesity.

Deadline

31st December 2022. Applications will be evaluated continuously when received and candidates may be called for interview 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.

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