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Global Development, Clinical Track
Novo Nordisk’s Graduate Programme in Global Development (GD) is a stimulating opportunity for future GD leaders to join a fast-growing, successful and borderless company. As a Novo Nordisk graduate, you’ll gain broad knowledge of the process of developing new products, from the earliest phases to market penetration. You will be part of an international environment and gain an overview of all activities required to get new drugs through clinical development. Your perspective will be shaped both at our headquarters and our affiliate locations, where you’ll gain hands-on experience in facing diverse tasks.
The GD Graduate Programme will give you valuable trial management and project management skills, and an understanding of cross-organisational collaboration. You will have real responsibilities in an intensive learning environment, and you will build up an international network of colleagues.
Furthermore, the Novo Nordisk graduate programme unlocks a world of opportunities. Most of our graduates are hired on a permanent basis upon completing the programme.
What you will be doing
As a GD graduate, you will gain experience working in a broad range of responsibilities that may include:
- Various disciplines of trial management including safety monitoring
- Project management
- Knowledge of regulations & guidelines within Good Clinical Practice
- Presentations to internal and external audiences
- IT systems, insight in electronic submission of files to the authorities
- Interaction and collaboration with trial management stakeholders such as external vendors
- Contract negotiation
Scope of the programme
The GD Graduate Programme aims to develop future leaders with the competencies to manage clinical trials and trial programmes. The programme comprises three rotations during a two-year period between Trial Management and a trial management related department, i.e. Regulatory Affairs, Safety Operations, Clinical Pharmacology in DK, and a Novo Nordisk office abroad.
Earlier programmes have brought the graduates to India, USA, Spain, England and Germany.
Rotation details
Rotation 1
The rotation focuses on the general business principles, processes and ethical imperatives of the clinical trials conducted within Novo Nordisk. The rotation is carried out in a department within headquarters that is relevant to trial management, e.g. Regulatory Affairs.
Rotation 2
This rotation takes place at an affiliate where the basic principles and knowledge gained from the first rotation are turned into practice. The graduate is responsible for co-monitoring at an affiliate and will thereby experience the hands-on work at the clinics and hospitals where the trials are running.
Rotation 3
The third rotation builds on the two previous rotations, where the graduate focuses on the central role of the International Trial Manager, giving special attention to the coordination of the global stakeholders within the planning and conducting of clinical trials. This last rotation thereby prepares the graduate for a career in international trial management.
Requirements
To join the GD Graduate Programme you will have successfully completed a Master's degree in a relevant field within natural science, such as pharmacy, veterinary, biology, biotechnology or an equivalent. We are looking for people with an international profile who are performance-oriented, outgoing and willing to learn from others. Preferably, you have a track record of extra-curricular activities. You should be able to work as part of a team and also independently, and proactively take ownership of your areas of responsibility.
Graduate recruitment for 2009 has now ended. Next recruitment campain will take place primo 2010.
