Scientific Director
Novo Nordisk
August 11, 2026
On-site
Lexington, MA
Clinical Research and Development
The Scientific Director is a senior scientific leader and subject matter expert shaping strategic direction and advancing diabetes disease biology insights.
Responsibilities:
- Provide biological leadership to impact portfolio strategy, ensuring programs are grounded in robust human biology, translational relevance, and differentiated clinical value.
- Advance novel diabetes targets and emerging mechanisms of action, including diabetic comorbidities.
- Integrate human cohorts, clinical datasets, biomarkers, and omics data into disease understanding, target validation, and precision medicine strategies.
- Contribute subject matter expertise to the TA research agenda; link scientific priorities to long-term portfolio and business needs.
- Deliver high-quality scientific insights enabling program progression; influence portfolio direction and go/no-go decisions via expert recommendations.
- Build external scientific networks and represent the organization via presentations, publications, patents, and external engagements.
- Promote scalable, inclusive, collaborative approaches across a global matrix.
Qualifications:
- PhD (required) with 7+ years’ experience; or MD/DO with 3+ years’ experience.
- Diabetes drug discovery SME; strong small-molecule expertise; siRNA or other nucleic acid modalities is a plus.
- Expert knowledge of scientific and translational challenges for drug development in T1D; prior industry experience.
- Proven ability to coordinate and obtain buy-in from internal/external stakeholders; influence without direct authority.
- Strong communication skills (agenda, meeting leadership, conveying scientific results across international sites); team-focused, collaborative mindset.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- 10–20% overnight travel required.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; 401(k); flexible spending accounts; employee assistance; tuition reimbursement; voluntary benefits (e.g., group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet and auto/home insurance); time off, flexible vacation, parental leave.
Application instructions:
- For special assistance/accommodation when applying: call 1-855-411-5290 (accommodation requests only).
Responsibilities:
- Provide biological leadership to impact portfolio strategy, ensuring programs are grounded in robust human biology, translational relevance, and differentiated clinical value.
- Advance novel diabetes targets and emerging mechanisms of action, including diabetic comorbidities.
- Integrate human cohorts, clinical datasets, biomarkers, and omics data into disease understanding, target validation, and precision medicine strategies.
- Contribute subject matter expertise to the TA research agenda; link scientific priorities to long-term portfolio and business needs.
- Deliver high-quality scientific insights enabling program progression; influence portfolio direction and go/no-go decisions via expert recommendations.
- Build external scientific networks and represent the organization via presentations, publications, patents, and external engagements.
- Promote scalable, inclusive, collaborative approaches across a global matrix.
Qualifications:
- PhD (required) with 7+ years’ experience; or MD/DO with 3+ years’ experience.
- Diabetes drug discovery SME; strong small-molecule expertise; siRNA or other nucleic acid modalities is a plus.
- Expert knowledge of scientific and translational challenges for drug development in T1D; prior industry experience.
- Proven ability to coordinate and obtain buy-in from internal/external stakeholders; influence without direct authority.
- Strong communication skills (agenda, meeting leadership, conveying scientific results across international sites); team-focused, collaborative mindset.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- 10–20% overnight travel required.
Benefits:
- Medical, dental, vision; life and disability insurance; 401(k); flexible spending accounts; employee assistance; tuition reimbursement; voluntary benefits (e.g., group legal, critical illness, identity theft protection, pet and auto/home insurance); time off, flexible vacation, parental leave.
Application instructions:
- For special assistance/accommodation when applying: call 1-855-411-5290 (accommodation requests only).