Clinical Operations Manager

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Novo Nordisk has a very exciting future ahead with several innovative products in the pipeline. To reach our ambition of improving the lives of millions of people, we are expanding our Clinical Operations Team

**The Position**

You will lead an outstanding team of 10 Trial Managers located across Spain, Portugal, and France, ensuring an excellent execution of our clinical trials and a strong alignment with relevant local and international departments. Being part of the Clinical Development Center (CDC) Leadership team, you will play a key role in the definition of the clinical development strategy for the CDC countries.

Among your responsibilities

• As a Line Manager, you will empower the team to be accountable, autonomous, self-organized and agile. You will guide their professional journey assuring team satisfaction, motivation, development, and healthy work-life balance. To achieve this goal, you will be involved in training, development plans, recruiting, onboarding, performance appraisals
• Oversee of Clinical Trials ensuring all aspects from start-up to closure are conducted professionally and to a high standard, in accordance with Novo Nordisk’s policies and procedures, external regulations and ICH GCP, acting as an ambassador for the company and contributes to making Novo Nordisk the preferred partner in clinical trials.
• In strong partnership with the rest of the CDC leaders, you will have a relevant role in the cultural transformation towards agile ways of working, simplification, and definition of an optimal communication strategy.
• Co-create and assist the implementation of a common Clinical Development strategy in alignment with all relevant local, regional, global and CDC strategy. Be the point of contact for global and regional stakeholders in clinical trial matters.

**Qualifications**

• Life Science Degree
• Strong Clinical Research background with **minimum 3 years of People Manager experience in a Clinical Operations department**. Experience managing Trial Manager, Project Managers or other senior roles will be an advantage.
• International mindset and ability to lead and inspire beyond the physical frontiers. Agility in leading virtual teams across different countries. Experience managing people cross-country will be an advantage.
• People centricity and strong leadership skills. Excellent communication, and presentation skills. Cross-functional and team player mindset.
• Ability to work in changing environment, leading an agile methodology, being innovative and finding efficient ways of doing things.
• English and Spanish fluency is required for this role.
• Able to value diversity, uncertainties and complexity and transform them as opportunities for the team and the company

**About the Department**

The one thing that keeps the Clinical Operations team marching to the same beat is its patient-centered focus. As patients’ needs evolve, so does our challenge to find better and more innovative ways to improve their quality of life. With this ambition, we are currently immersed in a transformational journey lead by the management team in which the new CRM will land.

Moreover, you will directly report to our CDC Head having the opportunity to collaborate with multiple colleagues across different departments, countries and settings.

**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**

If you believe you are qualified and are willing to take the challenge, please submit your updated CV in our platform.

**Deadline**

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.