Do you want to be part of a dynamic team, working in an international environment that drives clinical trial activities? Do you want to develop further as a people manager within the clinical trials field? Then keep reading - we may have just the right job for you! Clinical Development Centre (CDC) Poland is expanding and is looking for a new CTA Team Manager.

The Position
As our new CTA Team Manager you will be responsible for leading the CDC Clinical Trial Administrator (CTA) team within all countries (Adjacent Affiliates) in the CDC Poland, and to ensure administrative support in assigned clinical trials for Trial Manager and Clinical Research Associates in accordance with the Novo Nordisk’s policies and procedures, SOP’s, local legislation and GCP requirements. You will be involved in personal and professional development of your team members, as well as setting and monitoring of clinical performance targets for the team.

While your main focus is on People Management activities, your responsibilities will also include maintaining the best in class trial execution and quality through the following:

• Overall accountability for clinical trial documentation management (including filing and archiving) for clinical trials, covering all involved Adjacent Affiliates within the CDC Poland.
• Proactive risk management and escalation of issues/risks for documentation process handling in the clinical trials.
• Deployment of CTA resources to clinical trials.
• Developing strong working relationship with CDC Clinical Management Team, Clinical Research Managers, Trial Managers in Adjacent Affiliates, region SEEMEA, HQ and other relevant stakeholders.
• Collaboration across CDC countries and with Medical Affairs organisation to deliver clinical trials.

Your direct reports are CTAs located in countries that are part of CDC.
The position will be based in Warsaw and reporting to the CDC Clinical Operations Manager.

Qualifications
Our ideal candidate is a natural people leader with a strategic mindset, great planning and execution skills. It is important that you have the ability to share knowledge with others and coach your colleagues. You also have excellent negotiation, communication and presentation skills demonstrating your ability to drive change and work in a changing environment, to proactively find efficient ways of doing things. You need proven decision-making and problem-solving capabilities.  

We expect you to have:

• Proven experience in all operational aspects of planning and conducting of clinical trials in accordance with ICH-GCP, as well as a successful international collaboration.
• Proven experience of managing/supervision of a team in the pharmaceutical industry or Contract Research Organisation (CRO) – as a Line Manager, or as a Regional Trial Manager/Clinical Project Manager.
• Stakeholder management skills.
• Fluency in English – written and spoken.

About the Department

CDC Poland is part of Region South East Europe, Middle East and Africa (SEEMEA) and is a new set-up of clinical organization in Novo Nordisk Poland, covering a group of 16 countries including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Poland. CDC Poland is responsible for conducting clinical trials across this group of countries, providing clinical trial management and administration support to adjacent Affiliates. CDC Poland is currently responsible for approximately 20% of global patients in Novo Nordisk clinical trials.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

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