Head of Oceania Cdc

**About the Department**

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Novo Nordisk’s purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. Working at Novo Nordisk is never just a job. It’s the opportunity for a life-changing career. For nearly 100 years, Novo Nordisk has pioneered scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to its medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease. As an employee at Novo Nordisk, you have the potential to make a difference to both people and society.

As part of a globally successful pharmaceutical business, Novo Nordisk Oceania is a high growth affiliate with an exciting growth trajectory and pipeline in new products and therapy areas in the coming years. We proudly live our purpose of improving the lives of patients within the therapy areas our products treat and put both patients and people firmly in the centre of everything we do.

**The Position**

We offer a market competitive salary and a range of benefits including above standard superannuation, circuit breaker days and additional gifted leave, an amazing culture which ranks us number 1 in the recent Best Place to Work survey, and an opportunity to work on truly life changing new medicines.

The responsibilities of the role are, and is not limited to:

- Manage the Clinical Development Centre to achieve trial recruitment and quality objectives for Oceania across sites in Australia and New Zealand, and drive CDC strategy and overall trial allocations, capacity management, productivity, site selection and feasibility strategies, quality and training initiatives within the CDC
- Collaborate with regions above affiliate, other CDC units within Novo Nordisk globally and other Oceania teams to ensure high quality relationships with stakeholders, as well as provide clear communication with all key stakeholders.
- Perform regular workload assessments and ensure productivity is maintained and optimised on an ongoing basis
- Evaluate effectiveness of trial processes and local practices and adopt a continuous improvement approach to increasing efficiency and simplicity
- Ensure a positive and high-performance culture within the CDC, and is responsible for the overall maintenance of site requirements and budgeting. Establish and maintain good relationships with Key Opinion Leaders, vendors, external clients, ethics committees and Health authorities

**Qualifications**
- Must have a minimum of 10 years of experience within clinical trial management
- Experience with people leadership, including management of managers
- A Degree qualification in Pharmacy, Life Sciences or related
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience with operations management within a clinical setting

**Working at Novo Nordisk**

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. 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. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales - we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

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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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