Associate Project Director - Data Lead - Data Orchestration

About the Department                                                                                                                                               

Our East Coast Global Development Hub brings together the best minds in life science innovation with facilities in Lexington, MA and Plainsboro, NJ. We support programs from early research through late-stage clinical development. We are building for the future, creating a distinct R&D community based on collaboration, partnerships, and cutting-edge research across multiple innovative modalities and therapeutic areas. Our East Coast Global Development Hub merges biotech speed and agility with large pharmaceutical company quality, resources, and stability, uniting the best of both worlds to develop new medicines for patients. We recognize that improving human health starts here and that patients rely on us. We’re changing lives for a living. Are you ready to make a difference?  This role is within Data Orchestration and is part of the department in Data Science.

The Position

The Associate Data Lead Project Director will lead and drive major and high complexity clinical data science projects with cross organizational assignments and deliverables important to Novo Nordisk. This includes: Define and execute the data strategy and consider alternative data strategies; Indirect leadership of project members/managers from Data Science. Communicate and negotiate with several internal and external stakeholders.

Relationships

The Associate Data Lead Project Director reports to the Senior Director, Data Orchestration. Internal partners include among other Corporate Vice Presidents and Vice Presidents in the global Data Science function, Project Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents and Directors in the Medical and Science function. External relationships include among others medical experts, health authorities, academic researcher and institutions

Internal Stakeholders:

Data Science

Project teams (CVPs, PVPs and M&S)

R&ED or Translational Science & Medicine

Strategy, Access & Marketing (RWE, HEOR, NPP, Digital Health, Insights and Forecasting)

GEPA

Regions/Affiliates

Senior/Executive management

Global Medical Affairs

Project teams

External stakeholders:

Medical experts

Academic researchers and Institutions

Health authorities

Research and data agencies /vendors

IT

Global and local health authorities

Essential Functions

• Key responsibility
• Responsible for timely planning and proper execution of data science activities resulting in an optimal Target Data Profile for a Therapeutic Area and/or one or more Global Projects
• Help drive the uptake and use of the concept Target Data Profile across Novo Nordisk projects
• Project leadership and management with respect to all data science activities for the projects ensuring all relevant Data Science experts (Biostatistics, Pharmacometrics, Data Management, Data Scientists with data modality expertise (omics, imaging, Digital Health), AI/ML expets, RWScience etc) are involved in Global Project Team (GPT) activities at the right time and to the right extent
• Internal and external stakeholder management
• Communication and cross-functional cooperation
• Ensure cross-portfolio data learnings
• Membership of one or more Global Project Teams

Physical Requirements

Up to 10% overnight travel required. Travel is expected up to approximately 10% per year (International).

Qualifications

• Education Level:
• Master’s degree required. PhD highly preferred 

• Relevant work experience includes:
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical industry value chain and product development
• Comprehensive understanding of at least one data science discipline in drug development (such as biostatistics, pharmacometrics, advanced analytics, or epidemiology), or a background in scientific or medical oversight for the design of drug development programs
• Project management experience leading cross-functional (and perhaps global) projects
• Experience from early to late-stage drug development preferred 
• Knowledgeable of the Novo Nordisk value chain preferred

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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