Department – Centralised Monitoring Unit (CMU)- Bangalore

Does your motivation come from challenges and working in a dynamic environment? Do you thrive in a working environment where close collaboration with key stakeholders and strategic alignment is essential? Do you have a can-do attitude with continuous improvement as one of your career objectives? Then we might have the right position for you. Apply now and join a growing team, working in an international environment.

About the department

The Centralised Monitoring Unit (CMU)- Bangalore, is a department within the Global Trial Portfolio area. It is a perfect blend of skilled medical professionals (Medical reviewers), medical illustrators (graphical designers), technical programmers (Functional programmers), statistical monitors and central monitors. Medical reviewers actively involved in Risk based medical monitoring in collaboration with the medical specialists from Denmark, with focus on ensuring overall patient safety and wellbeing of all clinical trial participants, by ensuring compliance to protocol and identifying potential clinically significant outliers that requires medical attention and medical data cleaning. The Functional Programmers develop operational visualisations in data visualization tools to support the trial teams on proactive centralised monitoring and Statistical Monitors perform detection of unusual data patterns, systematic errors and potential lack of compliance or fraud across trials. Our medical illustrators create visually appealing content for our clinical meetings and central monitors perform review of key risk indicators.

The Position

As Central Monitor, an ideal candidate will be responsible for providing inputs in defining standard and trial specific key risk indicators and performing ongoing monitoring of operational risks. Ensure both standard and trial specific Key Risk Indicators (KRI’s) impacting patient safety and data quality and regulatory compliance are appropriately defined as per protocol, monitoring strategy etc prior to start of centralised operational monitoring review.

• Responsible to Perform ongoing centralised operational monitoring activities on assigned studies using vendor platform dashboards/outputs in accordance with NN SOPs, ICH/GCP, regulatory guidelines & directives.
• Provide inputs to applications, databases and systems used to monitor operational data.
• Responsible for communication and findings of operational review to relevant stakeholders to enable decision making. Act as primary contact for relevant stakeholders and participate in project meetings for assigned centralized monitoring studies .
• Contribute to discussions around share learnings and practices with wider CMU department colleagues and with other relevant stakeholders
• Maintain knowledge of and act in compliance with global and local SOPs, GCP and other regulatory requirements.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of bachelor’s degree in life science/scientific or health care discipline.
• Above 3 years of relevant clinical research experience with good knowledge of drug development process and risk-based quality management principles.
• Prior CRA/Field Monitoring and analytical tool experience is desirable
• Skill in aggregate data review and interpretation using visualization/analysis software’s
• Solid understanding of clinical trial design, trial execution and operations.
• Ability to successfully manage multiple projects and priorities.
• Good Communication & Presentation skills.
• Ability to plan well and handle complex tasks simultaneously and independently.
• Ability to work collaboratively and effectively in a cross functional and culturally diverse teams.
• Ability to work independently/responsively and with tight deadlines and under pressure.
• Quality mind-set and strong analytical skills, Strong attention to detail , Proactive and resilient to changes .
• Interact with colleagues, stakeholders, project members, management in a proactive and professional manner.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

If you believe you are a match for the above requirements and are willing to take up the role, please apply here with our online application tool.

Deadline

Apply on or before: 28th November 2024.

Disclaimer

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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.