Are you an experienced Product Leader of cross-functional teams with a passion for digitalisation and a strong determination to help the business solve challenging problems? Do you have great stakeholder management competencies?
Then, this is your chance to join us as a Product Owner within Digital Study and Monitoring Management. Apply today for a life-changing career!
The Position As a Product Owner in an agile team working with the Study Start Up and Study Conduct domains of the COSMOS Product, you will play a key role in the continued development of one of our high-priority and key digital products, COSMOS.
COSMOS is a backbone product in our clinical development process with more than 2500+ users and 50+ integrations to other systems and solutions. You will be driving a Product Development Team to effectively secure business needs for future effective and GCP-compliant study management. You will evaluate and balance how technology can support and enable the fulfilment of current business needs, while at the same time ensure that our longer-term digital enablement strategy is fulfilled. You will have a huge impact on utilising the full potential of cloud-based technology for clinical study management in a collaboration that spans across other IT systems supporting, for example, clinical development, clinical supplies, and regulatory affairs. Many internal and external stakeholders will rely on your business understanding and your ability to combine business needs with technology enablers and platforms.
Some of your key responsibilities will be to:

Develop, define, and update Product Vision, and Product Roadmaps and ensure link to Program Increment Objectives and Team Iteration Goals.

Ensure that Product Discovery is done continuously so that we are building the right product for the benefit of the users and the business.

Ensure Product Delivery by keeping a prioritized backlog of features that the team can drive to implementation.

Drive risk and impact assessment of new features as well as ensure benefit realisation based on benefit hypotheses.

Challenge future needs and ways of working within Digital Study and Monitoring Management and Digital Transformation area.

In your role, you will work closely with Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Subject Matter Experts for COSMOS, and end users to understand the needs of the business, as well as with colleagues in Digital, Data & IT Development. Further, you will also work closely with relevant software vendors.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

At least 3-5 years of Product Management experience. Preferably within a regulated environment, but not a requirement.

Experience from working in a Scaled Agile Framework, but not a requirement.

Solid knowledge of Product Development practices and Agile practises is expected.

Great stakeholder management competencies.

Academic Degree preferred.

If you cannot tick off all the qualifications, then apply anyway. Be Bold! As a person, you are a positive, solution-oriented candidate with a curious mindset and an interest in process optimization and IT system development. You have the courage to make decisions and take calculated risks. You do not shy away from exploring and trying out new things, and you are engaged in ensuring team goals and successes are achieved. You are as much a part of ensuring others success as well as your own and you lead by example and role model leadership behaviour. We expect you to take ownership, that you are structured and ensure an overview. You are comfortable with challenging and advising stakeholders and you can present complex matters in a clear and precise manner. Above all, you are proactive, have a strong drive and a desire to create real impact for the business. About the department
The position as Product Owner is based in the Digital Study and Monitoring Management area, part of a unit called Digital Transformation, Clinical Drug Development, where we are dedicated to leverage cutting-edge digital technology, data and processes.
Novo Nordisk drives clinical trials in more than 55 countries worldwide and collaborate with 6,000+ sites at hospitals and clinics. Digitalisation is key if we want to succeed with this. Our aspiration: We lead the digitalisation of clinical development to provide new innovative medicines faster for patients living with severe chronic diseases.
We have solid experience in Clinical Drug Development, and we work closely with our stakeholders in headquarters in Denmark, Bangalore (India) and affiliates worldwide to ensure that our new processes are simple and robust.
In Digital Study and Monitoring Management, we are 50+ dedicated colleagues who strive to transform, digitise, optimise and drive the ways of working within clinical studies, so our many colleagues in HQ and in affiliates, as well as the investigators and site staff in clinical investigative sites around the world collaborating on our studies may successfully meet the future demands.
Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is one of the most successful pharmaceutical companies in the world. At Novo Nordisk, we share a passion for changing patients’ lives, and we are always looking for talented individuals who want to join us in this effort.
At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change. We drive it. We are 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 are all working to move the needle on patient care.
Your development and wellbeing are important to us. Training and personal development are key tools to ensure continued development of your toolbox and wellbeing is a primary principle of our organisational area.
Contact
For further information, please contact Head of People & Capabilities Product Owners, Peter Benjamin Kraik Svensson, at +45 30755496.
Deadline
3 March 2024
Kindly note that applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews conducted on a rolling basis. Please refrain from adding a photo to your CV to ensure fair and efficient processing.
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.