Job Description

Drive clinical excellence across trial sites, ensuring the highest standards of patient safety, data integrity, and regulatory compliance in studies that advance treatments for serious chronic diseases.

Your new role

As a Clinical Research Associate, you'll be the vital link between Novo Nordisk, clinical sites, and cross-functional teams, driving excellence in trial execution.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Serving as the primary liaison between Novo Nordisk, clinical sites, and study teams, conducting on-site and remote monitoring visits to ensure protocol compliance
• Safeguarding patient safety and data integrity by monitoring site data, resolving discrepancies, and managing adverse events in line with ICH-GCP and regulatory requirements
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with investigators and site staff to support recruitment, retention, and overall site performance
• Driving the implementation of risk-based quality management (RBQM) principles to proactively identify and mitigate risks throughout the study
• Overseeing investigational medicinal products, study supplies, essential documents, and equipment to ensure proper accountability and compliance
• Leading site training and providing continuous support on protocols, operational procedures, and compliance requirements
• Maintaining accurate trial documentation, including the Investigator Trial Master File, and ensuring inspection readiness throughout all trial stages

Your new department

You'll be joining our Clinical Development Centre (CDC) in Spain, a dedicated team committed to advancing our clinical trial portfolio across the region. Working closely with site staff, investigators, and cross-functional teams, you'll play a crucial role in bringing life-changing treatments from development to patients, ensuring every trial is executed with precision and care. We combine curiosity, advanced tools, and human data to develop transformative therapies. Through collaboration and operational excellence, we shape and deliver an innovative pipeline to meet future patient needs.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for a Clinical Research Associate who thrives in dynamic environments and is passionate about clinical excellence. You'll bring with you:

• A Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences or a related field
• Minimum 2+ years' experience in clinical trial monitoring for international phase II / III trials is mandatory.
• Previous experience in diabetes, obesity, CVD and / or rare diseases will be an advantage.
• Strong understanding and knowledge of ICH-GCP guidelines, regulatory requirements, and clinical trials methodology
• Proficiency in digital tools, including electronic data capture (EDC) systems, CTMS, eTMF, and other clinical trial software
• Totally fluent Spanish and english is required
• Flexibility to travel as required

You have demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders across all organisational levels. Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to work independently and as part of a team. Strong organisational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple sites and priorities simultaneously. High attention to detail, integrity, and commitment to quality and patient safety is key for success.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.