Job Description

Department: Safety Medical Writing, Safety Surveillance, Global Patient Safety.

Location :Novo Nordisk Global Business Services (GBS) Bangalore, India

Are you passionate about ensuring patient safety through meticulous scientific writing? Do you have the expertise to handle complex safety surveillance reporting? We are looking for an experienced Safety Medical Writer at senior level to join our team and lead high-complexity tasks related to safety reporting. If this sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position
Senior Safety Medical Writer is a highly skilled expert responsible for independently delivering complex writing assignments. This role requires expertise in aggregate safety analyses and proficiency in preparing pharmacovigilance (PV) regulatory documentation to ensure accuracy, compliance, and clarity

As a Senior Safety Medical Writer at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Be responsible for the preparation of complex aggregate safety reports, Risk Manage-ment Plans (RMPs), and responses to Health Authority questions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, , to ensure high-quality scientific writing and timely reporting of safety data.
• Contribute to the evaluation and implementation of changes in local/global guidelines to ensure compliance with internal and external requirements.
• Contribute to innovation and technical optimization projects within Safety Medical Writing to enhance efficiency, quality, and scalability of deliverables.
• Contribute to process improvement activities, medical writing competency development and skill building across Safety Medical Writing.
• Act as an expert for junior team members, share information, and take proactive steps to excel in your role.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• A master’s degree and/or PhD in Life Sciences (e.g., Pharmacy, Medicine, Veterinary, or Biological), combined with proven experience (>7 years working within pharmacovigilance and medical writing).
• Excellent analytical and communication skills .
• Solid understanding of pharmacovigilance and of drug development in general.
• Expert understanding of Periodic Safety Update Reports (PSURs), Development Safety Update Reports (DSURs) and RMPs, and the guidelines and regulations that drive their preparation.
• Experience in applying artificial intelligence/structured authoring or other technical solutions in medical writing
• Highly collaborative, capable of leading cross-functional team members, negotiating solu-tions, advising them on document structure and content as needed.
• Able to handle multiple projects simultaneously and deliver multiple high-quality documents on schedule
• Fluency in both written and spoken English (business language) and flair for written scien-tific communication and data presentation.
• Experience in handling documents of high complexity (e.g., submissions of Marketing Authorisation Applications) will be considered an advantage.

About the department
Safety Medical Writing is a global team within Global Patient Safety, situated in Bangalore, India and Søborg, Denmark. Safety Medical Writing delivers expertise in regulatory pharmacovigilance documentation to ensure that the safety data of our products is presented clearly and concisely in documents that are fit-for-purpose, with transparency and ethics being our key drivers.
Global Patient Safety is an organization of more than 400 highly professional people with a high level of education within Life Sciences. Safety Medical Writing is responsible for reporting on the emerging safety profile based on routine surveillance of all Novo Nordisk’s products (both cur-rently marketed and under development worldwide), to ensure patient safety.

Deadline: 25 May 2026

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.