Trial Management Graduate

Trial Management Graduate: Kick-start your global career!

Are you a master’s student with an interest in clinical trial design and conduct? Be a part of Novo Nordisk’s growth journey and accelerate your own. Turn your degree into a global career at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies! 

About the Trial Management Graduate Programme

At Novo Nordisk, clinical trials are essential to the development of new and innovative medicines for people living with serious chronic diseases. Trial Management, nested within Novo Nordisk’s Clinical Operations department, plays a vital role in our ambitious drug development program. We plan and execute clinical trials to produce the high-quality data and scientific documentation required by health authorities, to turn our promising pipeline of exciting new medicines into marketable products. 

The full-time position as a Trial Management Graduate, will enable you to be a part of a team driving operational deliverables crucial to the successful execution of clinical trials. You will be involved in planning, executing, and overseeing clinical trials, experience a variety of cross-functional collaboration, work with stakeholder management and have assignments in different phases of a clinical trial. You will also enjoy the privilege of being part of a graduate network, which will allow you to broaden your learnings even further, while building your opportunities and relationships across the company. 

As you embark on your life-changing career in Novo Nordisk, we will provide you with:

• Accelerated personal and professional development from day one
• International professional experience
• Vast exposure and networking possibilities

The position

During the two-year programme you will undertake three challenging and exciting eight-months rotations. The first rotation is planned to take place within Clinical Operations at our corporate headquarter in Denmark, where you will be thoroughly onboarded and develop in the role as a Global Trial Manager. Your second rotation will be in Clinical Development in one of our global offices around the world, providing you with insights through the perspective of an affiliate, learnings about how trials are conducted on the sites and hands on operational experience. In your third rotation, you will return to Denmark and work with some of the stakeholders you have interacted with during your first two rotations. You will work as a fully-fledged member of each team, with responsibilities for one or more projects, in an environment characterised by a vast global network, knowledge sharing and challenging assignments in a dynamic, project-centric organisation.

After two years in the Novo Nordisk Graduate Programme, you will be offered a permanent position as a Global Trial Manager, with continued focus on your future career development.

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed as a Trial Management Graduate, we expect you to have:

• A relevant master’s degree within natural sciences from 2024 or 2025, with above average academic achievements. While not a requirement, those pursing a PhD -or having completed one in 2024- are also welcome to apply if their cumulative work experience does not exceed 1 year.
• International experience, for example from studying a full semester abroad, working or volunteering
• Relevant work experience or extracurricular activities obtained next to your studies – however, no more than 1 year of full-time work experience between or after completing your studies (when hired)
• Global mindset, ability to adapt quickly to change, displaying agility and willingness to explore and innovate
• Excellent communication skills, be a team-player, driven and eager to learn
• Professional fluency in English and be globally mobile

If you meet the criteria and are interested in joining the programme on 1 September 2025, please make sure to submit your application no later than 30 November 2024 GMT+1.

Important: upload this when you apply 

Before clicking the apply button, please ensure you have uploaded your CV (please upload under “resume”), cover letter and most recent academic records (upload these two documents as one file under “cover letter”) in English. Applications without these uploads will not be considered.

In the cover letter we expect to learn more about your motivation for wanting to join Novo Nordisk and the Graduate Programme, as well as your personal and professional competencies. Hence, make sure you include:

• What are your expectations from the graduate programme, and how will it support your career aspirations? 
• What team characteristics do you value, and what three qualities do you believe others appreciate about you? 
• Tell us about a time where you have applied innovative thinking to either your studies or work
• Share an example with us, describing how you have worked with a challenging or complex task

The cover letter must not exceed one page.

You can apply from any device but as you will be asked to answer several questions on the application page, we recommend applying from a PC instead of a mobile phone.

About the Graduate Programme

Our Global Graduate Programme is designed to bring together change makers with a diversity of perspectives and equip them with the tools needed to accelerate their personal and professional development. The two-year programme allows you to explore the world while developing your career. You will be taken on three rotations around the globe where you will work in a fast-paced environment and grow in ways you never could have imagined. You will be exposed to the entire Novo Nordisk value chain while being challenged to explore your boundaries and reach your full potential. If you want a general introduction to the Novo Nordisk Graduate Programme including all 18 tracks then click here. 

Contact

For questions about the Trial Management Graduate Programme, please contact our current graduates Iman Baramaki, IBKI@novonordisk.com or Niloufar Soltani, NFST@novonordisk.com. You can also click on this link for information on our upcoming graduate webinars.

About Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. We employ more than 69,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 170 countries. We are on a relentless mission to drive change for millions of people living with chronic diseases, and we need people like you to join us on this mission and take Novo Nordisk into the future. 

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.