Usability Engineer (Maternity cover)

Are you a detail-oriented professional with an end-user focus, who are passionate about innovation in healthcare? Do you take pride in diving into the details and value coherence and consistency? Are you ready to impact Novo Nordisk’s drug delivery portfolio and impact millions of lives for our end users? 

If yes, you might be the new Usability Engineer to join our team in Devices and Delivery Solutions (DDS) in a maternity cover.

The position
As Usability Engineer you will be an advocate for end users in mid to late-stage medical device development projects. You will be responsible for planning, scoping and documenting usability activities and that authority requirements are met.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Regulatory Compliance and Documentation: You will be responsible for writing and maintaining detailed documentation to support regulatory compliance and design control phases within usability, including the creation of high-quality usability reports
• Manage and coordinate usability process and documentation: You need strong collaboration and project management skills to plan, coordinate, and execute usability activities. The role involves managing timelines, resources, and ensuring adherence to protocols and standards
• Close collaboration with key stakeholders, such as project managers, risk managers, systems engineers, clinical & external vendors
• Report to the Manager of the Usability Research Team, who is also a Usability Engineer by education and training

As part of a talented and growing team, it is expected that you will also be part of optimizing our research process and activities on an on-going basis. Approximately 10-20 days of travel a year is expected in relation to executing usability tests.
 
Qualifications
To be a competitive candidate, you should have:

• An academic degree in a natural science or engineering (MSc or equivalent)
• Solid experience with data documentation and reporting thorough data-collection efforts and analysis is crucial
• Strong analytical competencies, which support your ability to explain usability information in a structured, clear and accurate way
• Stakeholder management skills, which you should expect to use when interacting with technical experts of different disciplines
• Professional proficiency in English and experienced user of MS Office
• Knowledge of international standards and guidance’s including ANSI/AAMI/IEC 62366, ISO 14971 it is an advantage

We value the right mindset and your interpersonal skills higher than your level of experience. You will join a team of highly experienced colleagues who will be there to help and develop your professional skills. The level of complexity will be dependent on your experience.

As a person, you are self-driven, structured and have a desire to improve solutions through good usability. You are a strong team player recognised for your interpersonal skills. You are energetic, result-oriented and comfortable with taking initiative with a ‘can do’ mind-set and drive problem solving. You have an analytical mindset and can easily navigate in the intersection between data, people and processes. Lastly, you have a curiosity and passion for creating the best possible solution for our end users.

About the Department
You will join our Usability Engineering department consisting of 17 skilled usability professionals, who enjoy having a collaborative approach when setting direction within the field of usability. The Usability Engineering department is part of Devices and Delivery Solutions (DDS) which consists of more than 400 colleagues who works dedicated to design and develop innovative medical devices, digital health products, and digital therapeutic solutions for our patients. Only by considering what is valuable from a patient perspective do we help people live their lives to the fullest. 

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first.

We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 63,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing. 

Contact
For further information, please contact Manager of Usability Research, David Wiese +45 3075 5229 (due to holidays, he will be available starting on January, 6th) 
 
Deadline
8 January 2025.
 

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

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.