Job Description

About the Department

The Clinical, Medical and Regulatory (CMR) department at Novo Nordisk is one of the most diverse and collaborative groups within the organization. From health-care-provider interactions and developing and implementing regulatory strategies with the FDA to providing medical education and collecting data to support efficacy and new product development, CMR is involved. The one thing that keeps us all marching to the same beat is our patient-centered focus. At Novo Nordisk, you will help patients around the world. As their needs evolve, so does our challenge to find better and more innovative ways to improve their quality of life. We’re changing lives for a living. Are you ready to make a difference?

The Position

Senior, Clinical Informatics leads the functions in the Clinical Data Science & Evidence (CDSE) department of NNI focused on clinical informatics tools development to support the CMR organization. This individual will serve as a subject matter expect on clinical and medical informatics software and system development with customers in collaboration with the research partnerships function of the real-world evidence department as well as manage a team of internal informaticists to develop internal informatics tools to support the CMR functions. This individual will serve as a leader within NNI, the broader NN organization and the industry within these areas by sharing best practices, advising other functions, and driving broader adoption and optimal use of clinical informatics tools.

Relationships

This individual will report to the VP of CDSE and serve on the CDSE Leadership Team. This individual will provide leadership to the clinical informatics team, mentor and develop individual contributors within the clinical informatics team, and work collaboratively with other CDSE functions, CMR functions, broader NNI and Global functions to ensure local market needs are met. This individual will represent these functions across NNI, NN and the external environment to include scientific conferences and societies, key opinion leaders, advisory boards, industry councils and the broader medical community.

Essential Functions

• Lead the clinical informatics team in the (CDSE) department of NNI focused on clinical informatics tools development to support the CMR organization. This individual will serve as a SME and team leader in the organization and drive the development of CDSE’s capabilities to advise on and deploy clinical informatics tools to meet the evolving needs within these areas. This individual will serve as a leader within NNI, the broader NN organization and the industry within these areas by sharing best practices, advising other functions, and driving broader adoption and optimal use of these activities
• Development:
  • Drive personal and team development of individual contributors in terms of clinical informatics capabilities. Attends relevant scientific meetings, conferences, and courses

• Strategic:
  • Primary ownership for the CMR Clinical Informatics Strategy
  • Oversee and provide strategic guidance for all clinical informatics tools developed internally and serve as SME with customer partnership activities in NNI and ensure alignment with NNI enterprise strategy, portfolio, and product strategies as well as Global strategies. Drive understanding and appropriate use of clinical informatics in the organization and secure compliant processes are in place
  • Participates as a strategic, contributing member of the CDSE leadership team and oversees NNI due diligence and other senior level oversight associated with the role
• Internal/external relationships:
  • Foster development of relationships with US and Global KOLs and thought leaders, including but not limited to the function, serving as a driver on the use of clinical informatics representing NN in external professional societies, pharma associates, seminars, and conventions

Physical Requirements

10-20% overnight travel required.

Development of People

Supervisory

Ensure that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.

Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.

Qualifications

• Doctoral degree in clinical or life sciences research field (MD, PharmD, PhD, DNP, DrPH, etc.) preferred
• Graduate degree or clinical fellowship in informatics-related area (health informatics, clinical informatics, nursing ‎ informatics, health informatics, epidemiology, data science, etc.) preferred ‎
• 10+ years informatics experience preferred
• 3+ years of personnel management and team leadership responsibilities in an informatics capacity preferred
• Board certification in medical informatics preferred
• Solid understanding of the US Healthcare system
• Strong interpersonal, collaborative, relationship building and communication skills
• Superior strategic/tactical planning experience within a healthcare/pharmaceutical/technology environment is required
• Must maintain necessary credentials and remain in good standing within the medical/scientific community (if applicable)

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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.

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