Pharmacovigilance Senior Manager

Are you ready to shape the future of Pharmacovigilance (PV) strategy and operations? Are you passionate about safeguarding patient safety and leading impactful change?

Do you have the expertise to lead pharmacovigilance activities, build strong collaborations with global teams, and ensure compliance in a dynamic, international organization? If so, we invite you to join Novo Nordisk as our new Senior Manager, Pharmacovigilance for Region EUCAN, and help us drive excellence in a dynamic, international environment.

The Position

As a Senior Manager your main responsibility will be to develop and drive the pharmacovigilance function for Region EUCAN ensuring both internal and external PV compliance with the ultimate objective of ensuring Patient Safety.

Among your main responsibilities will be:

• Establish and expand the regional Pharmacovigilance function, fostering collaboration with global teams for consistent and compliant operations
• Lead PV strategy in Region EUCAN, coordinating activities to safeguard patient safety and compliance.
• Proactively identifying areas for improvements and drive solutions to ensure ongoing compliance.
• Representing Region EUCAN in various forums acting as the primary contact for PV related topics for affiliates, regional office and Global Patient Safety organization.
• Leading the EUCAN PV Leadership Team that includes affiliate safety responsible persons, maintaining full regional oversight of PV activities and optimizing processes in line with regulations and available resources.
• Supporting the audit/inspection preparation, share learnings, and identify, plan and communicate training and onboarding needs.
• Supporting on ad hoc regulatory activities

Qualifications:

• University Degree in Pharmacy, Medicine or related medical field
• 5 years’ experience in Pharmacovigilance within the pharmaceutical industry, with solid experience of working in an international team.
• Demonstrated leadership, proven track record in managing regional pharmacovigilance activities and ensuring compliance with safety regulations
• Strong business acumen, showing agility and fast solution orientation, strong Stakeholder Management, communication with impact upwards and downwards
• Leading teams without direct reporting lines, able to create and drive a strategy
• Being solution oriented, responsible, good at details, pro-active, able to navigate easily in diverse set-up, self-motivated, independent working style.
• Advanced English language skills.

About the affiliate and team

The position is based in Denmark within our Regulatory Affairs and Pharmacovigilance department. Our department plays a critical role in ensuring regulatory compliance and safeguarding patient safety. We are a collaborative and dynamic team, working at the intersection of regulatory affairs and safety pharmacovigilance. Together, we strive to ensure the safety of our medicines, from clinical trials to post-marketing, while shaping future regulatory frameworks. Join us and contribute to making a real difference for patients worldwide.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk we also recognise 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 and backgrounds, and from different cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and the communities we operate in.  

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all our job applicants. We are happy to discuss flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs.

Contact

If you have questions, feel free to contact Camilla Jacobsen

‎- CMJA@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

Apply before 11/11/2025

Are you interested in this opportunity? We look forward to your online application before the application deadline. Please include your CV in English.

We invite you to not hesitate and apply soon as we reserve the right to close this vacancy for further applications when we have received sufficient applications that meet the requirements. 

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process

Millions rely on us

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. 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. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.