Principal Specialist - Pharmacovigilance Metrics Governance

Pharmacovigilance Metrics Governance Principal Specialist

   

Team: PV Quality & Compliance Monitoring, Global Patient Safety

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

Are you passionate about pharmacovigilance, quality and compliance? Do you want to help shape the governance framework that safeguards patient safety on a global scale? Join us in PV Excellence and play a key role in driving how we monitor, measure and continuously improve the performance of our global PV system.

 

Your new role
As PV Metrics Governance Principal Specialist, you will support the digital tools and processes that underpin our governance framework for central monitoring, measuring and reporting of global PV system quality and compliance metrics. You will work across Global Patient Safety (GPS), affiliates and external partners to ensure coherence, synergy and continuous improvement.

 

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the implementation and maintenance of a robust governance framework for GPS oversight of the global PV system, ensuring adherence to quality and compliance objectives
• Operationalising internal metrics governance meetings to ensure optimal reporting and escalation of issues relating to PV system quality and compliance
• Driving improvement initiatives and cross-functional projects that harmonise PV quality and compliance processes with internal and external standards
• Building strategic partnerships with internal and external stakeholders, benchmarking against industry standards, and anticipating needs through regular engagement and feedback loops
• Performing and facilitating corrective and preventive actions in collaboration with stake-holders, and ensuring inspection and audit readiness within your area
• Designing ways of working that create synergy across GPS and affiliate activities, mini-mise duplication, and foster a culture of quality and continuous improvement

 

Your new department
In Research & Development, you'll be part of a unit that explores bold scientific ideas and ad-vances them into clinical testing. We combine curiosity, AI 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.
Within R&D, you will join PV Quality & Compliance Monitoring team within Global Patient Safe-ty (GPS) – the team responsible for ensuring the integrity, quality and compliance of our global pharmacovigilance system. We work closely with GPS departments, NN affiliates, R&D, health authorities and contractual partners across Denmark, our Global Business Services centre in Bangalore, and beyond

 

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for an experienced PV professional who thrives in a complex, global stakeholder landscape and who can balance independence with strong collaboration. To succeed in this role, you'll bring:

• A Bachelor's degree, preferably in Life Sciences, with a minimum of 6 years' relevant pharmacovigilance experience in operations
• Expert knowledge of pharmacovigilance principles and international regulatory requirements regarding drug safety, combined with a firm understanding of PV and quality KPIs and excellent knowledge of GxP
• Solid knowledge of databases and systems utilised by GPS, and experience participating in regulatory authority inspections
• Strong interpersonal, communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to reach agreement on matters of strategic importance across diverse professional and cultural backgrounds
• A structured, detail-oriented and quality-focused mindset, with the ability to handle com-plex tasks where few or no defined procedures exist – paired with innovation, flexibility and a drive for simplicity while maintaining compliance
• Fluency in English, both written and spoken

 

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.

 

Deadline
25 June 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.

Experience Level

Senior Level