Product Owner

Key Skills

Analytical and Problem solving, Biostatistics, Data science techniques, Effective communication skills, Product Management

Job Description

The position

As a Product Owner, you will play a vital role in the setting up and running a cross-functional team focused on business outcomes. You will need to flag and proactively manage implementation risks, resourcing challenges and ensure you consider the change journey required for the products to be adopted at-scale within Novo Nordisk. You will need to have a keen eye for validation, data integrity and quality, as our product should be used in a GLP/GCP environment heavily controlled by GDPR regulations as well.

The AutoReport team is part of the Smart Assay project which has been running in Global Discovery & Development Sciences since 2020. The product aims to create a seamless flow for collection of data and automatic report generation in a GxP environment. When ready, the product should enable fully automatic reporting, which will enable faster submission to authorities and ensure even stronger data integrity and quality.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading cross-functional teams to build MVPs and towards a scaled user-centric product.
• Developing roadmap for the team, planning sprints and owning reporting of progress.
• Managing interdependencies with other workstreams, flagging risks and driving solutions to mitigate them.
• Collaborating closely with technical teams to ensure technical prerequisites are in place for products to be built.
• Coordinating team with operational excellence and engaging with business owners to embed products within the broader organization.
• Supporting Change Management initiatives and roll-out to end-users. 

Qualifications

You have experience as a Product Management/Owner, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry, similar research functions or start-ups with a strong background in validating/managing GxP systems.

To be successful in this position, you possess: 

• SAFe certification as Product Owner is a plus.
• Strong in planning and execution and good understanding of agile ways of working and building products. 
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with a strong ability to work cross-functionally.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Expertise with clinical and/or non-clinical data and its secondary uses across research & early development, development, Biostats / data science, commercial, is a plus. 

In this position, we expect that you can lead the product, as well as collaborate with a diverse group of people and provide mentoring and guidance for more junior colleagues. Above all, it’s important that you have the right mind-set, take task ownership, you’re open to challenge and be challenged, and you’re driven and results oriented. In addition, you are creative, innovative and with ‘can-do’ and pragmatic attitude towards management.

About the department

Our area Non-clinical and Clinical Assay Sciences (NCAS) is responsible for assay development for pre-clinical and clinical of new pharmaceutical drugs, including immunogenicity and biomarker analyses, and we support the entire drug product portfolio of Novo Nordisk. NCAS consists of five departments with scientists, automation specialists and lab technicians. We have a strong collaborative atmosphere and share laboratory facilities that house a range of different state-of-the art techniques. NCAS is a GLP/GCP regulated area and is currently undergoing a transformation towards a more digitized and automated laboratory involving all five departments. Smart Assay Lab is driving this transformation, and you will be Product Owner of one of the tracks, to support faster reporting in all of our drug projects.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in 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. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

If you are curious to learn more, please contact Kirsten Reichwald, department Manager at +45 30 77 67 45.