Usability Specialist - join innovative product development projects in a one-year maternity cover

Would you like to spend a year making a real difference to our end-users, with a maternity cover that will give you a foot in the door to one of the best-performing MedTech companies in the world?

Then we have plenty of tasks allowing you to match your seniority level based on your work experience and skills.

“Joining our innovation projects, your work will have a direct impact on the lives of people with intimate health care needs. And you will enter a team, that is a major part of the Coloplast mission to be user-focused,” says Stine Renberg, Team Manager, Usability Engineering.

We test innovative products and concepts
You will be based at our HQ in Humlebæk and join our Usability Engineering team. Together, we are 5 highly skilled engineering colleagues within the biomedical field, medicine & technology, as well as design and innovation. And we work with end-user research and usability testing of innovative products and concepts. 

“We come into the office at least 4 times a week – simply because we enjoy working together. And we’re really good at planning our own time and looking into new initiatives,” explains Stine.

Plan and execute the usability engineering process in new product development 

In this role, you will be working closely with R&D, Design, Product Management, System Engineering, and regulatory teams. Your aim is to ensure that the usability of our medical devices properly address user needs, patient safety, product performance, regulatory requirements, and commercial needs. In this set-up, you will be the main responsible for documentation and compliance with regulatory standards. 

Moreover, you will serve as a usability project lead on assigned project teams, as well as an internal ad-hoc consultant for matters related to usability throughout the company.

Specifically, you will:

Experience with usability testing/interviews 

We are looking for a new colleague who enjoys collaboration but at the same time can plan their own time. The job requires great analytical skills with the vast amounts of use test data, human skills to connect with users with intimate healthcare needs, and communication skills to deliver your findings to our innovation projects.

Finally, we imagine that you:

Pursuing an ambitious growth agenda, Coloplast develops and markets products and services that make life easier for people with intimate healthcare needs. Employing about 16.000 people and with products available in more than 143 countries, we are one of the world´s leading medical device companies. We are constantly growing our business and always looking for new ways to move forward – we explore, learn and look for new ways of doing things.

Coloplast is committed to being an inclusive organization, where people bring their differences to work each day, fulfil their potential and have a strong sense of belonging because – and not despite – of their differences. We therefore encourage all qualified candidates to apply regardless of gender, age, race, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious belief or physical ability.