Lukas Westphal-Ostrowski · PhD Candidate, Real-World Studies & Regulatory Science
| Position | Company | Location | Deadline | Status | Fit | Contract | Link |
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Safety Surveillance Specialist
Signal detection, PASS, post-marketing PV
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Novo Nordisk
Global Patient Safety
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Søborg, Denmark |
Apr 27, 2026
Closed — not applied
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Not Applied | 9.2/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Senior COA Manager
Clinical outcomes assessments, patient-focused drug dev.
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Novo Nordisk
Global Medical Affairs
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Søborg, Denmark |
Apr 28, 2026
Closed — not applied
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Not Applied | 6.0/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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RWD Steward Manager
RWD governance, FAIR principles, data ethics
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Novo Nordisk
R&D Real World Evidence
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Søborg, Denmark |
Apr 23, 2026
✓ Applied
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Submitted | 7.8/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Analyst / Senior Analyst – RWE
RWE consulting, Nordic registries, pharmacoepidemiology
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Signum Life Science
Nordic RWE Consulting
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Copenhagen, Denmark |
No deadline
Rolling — apply soon
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Identified | 9.0/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Statistician / Senior Statistician
Danish registers, EHR data, mental disorders research
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Copenhagen Research Centre for Biological & Precision
Psychiatry
Mental Health Centre Copenhagen / Region H
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Gentofte Hospital, Copenhagen |
May 17, 2026
17 days left
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Identified | 9.0/10 | 1 year Start: Jun 1, 2026 |
→ View job |
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Clinical Data Manager
eCRF, EDC systems, data quality, clinical trials
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ALK
Biometrics / Global Clinical Development
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Hørsholm, Denmark (DTU Science Park) |
May 3, 2026
⚡ 3 days left
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Identified | 7.0/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Clinical Data & AI Engineer
Data pipelines, agentic AI, clinical data science architecture
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ALK
Clinical Data Science / Global Clinical Development
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Hørsholm, Denmark (DTU Science Park) |
Apr 23, 2026
✓ Applied
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Interview | 7.5/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Senior Clinical Data Management Professional
End-to-end trial data management, GCP, regulatory submissions
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Novo Nordisk
Clinical Data Management & Programming (CDMP)
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Søborg, Denmark |
May 4, 2026
⚡ 4 days left
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Identified | 7.5/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Safety Data Analysis & Reporting Lead
Aggregate safety reports, PSURs, risk management plans
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Ascendis Pharma
Global Patient Safety Medical Science
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Hellerup, Denmark |
No deadline
Rolling — high urgency per recruiter
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Identified | 6.5/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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AI & Digital Transformation Professional
Generative AI use cases in pharma Quality (GxP)
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Lundbeck
Corporate Product Quality
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Copenhagen, Denmark |
May 15, 2026
15 days left
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Identified | 6.0/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Data Analyst
Marine coating performance analytics, Power BI, BI tools
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Hempel
Marine Data & Technology
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Copenhagen, Denmark |
Not specified
Rolling
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Identified | 5.5/10 | Permanent | → View job |
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Scientist — Computational Audiology & ML
Real-world hearing data, ML models, translational research
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Demant / Eriksholm Research Centre
Oticon R&D — 35+ scientists
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Snekkersten, Denmark (partly Smørum) |
May 17, 2026
17 days left
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Identified | 8.5/10 | Permanent | → View job |
Cover letter: Lead with your exact match to their work: pharmacovigilance, RWE-based safety studies, Danish registry data, and drug safety publications. Mention your active surveillance study co-authorship explicitly — this directly mirrors PASS/NIS work. Frame the industry-to-academia gap as methodological depth they won't find in typical industry candidates.
CV: Move the pharmacovigilance and drug safety projects to the top of the Key Research Projects section. Emphasise the diabetes safety studies and the SSRI safety cohort study.
Honest assessment: The domain gap here is real. COA is a highly specialised niche requiring hands-on instrument development experience you don't have. Your psychology background is an asset but insufficient on its own.
If you apply: Lead with the Psychology Honours degree and your experience with patient-relevant endpoints in pharmacovigilance. Emphasise your regulatory science background and rapid learning ability. Be honest that COA is a pivot and explain why you're drawn to patient-focused drug development specifically.
Key angle: The job posting specifically calls out "experience with Danmarks Statistik, registries, or national datasets" as an advantage. You have this as a core competency. Frame your academic RWE work as evidence you deeply understand what good RWD governance enables — and why poor governance breaks studies.
Address the governance gap: Acknowledge this is a shift from scientific to operational, but position it as intentional — you understand both sides and want to shape the infrastructure that makes rigorous RWE possible at scale.
CV note: No cover letter needed — add a 2–3 sentence motivation to your CV's professional summary section.
Positioning: Apply as Senior Analyst given your PhD and multi-year research leadership. Your Danish registry expertise is exactly what their clients pay for — and you have more of it than most consultants they'll see.
Application: Send CV + short motivation email directly to acfj@signumlifescience.com. Call +45 61 77 69 75 if you want to ask questions first — they encourage it. Mention your Danish B1 language skills and registry experience prominently.
Unique angle: Your NLP and network analysis experience for the literature mapping project is genuinely differentiated — most RWE consultants don't have this. Mention it as an additional capability you bring beyond standard epidemiological analysis.
Key differentiator: Most statisticians applying here will have strong methods but no content-area relevance to psychiatry. You have both: your antidepressant effectiveness and safety research is literally psychiatric pharmacoepidemiology. Lead with this explicitly — it is unusual and highly valuable.
Cover letter angle: Frame as a natural scientific progression: "My PhD research on SSRI effectiveness and safety using Danish registry data aligns directly with your group's focus on mental disorders and treatment. I already work with the same data infrastructure, the same causal inference methods, and publish in the same journals your group targets."
Highlight on CV: SSRI personalised treatment project (g-formula, doubly robust), SSRI safety cohort study, and the literature network analysis project. Explicitly list g-formula and target trial emulation in your skills section — they are preferred qualifications here.
Honest assessment: The hands-on CDM experience gap (EDC systems, eCRF builds, site query management) is real, but ALK explicitly says a different data-intensive background can work. Your PhD-level statistics and SAS/R/Python skills significantly exceed what most CDM candidates bring — that's your differentiator.
Cover letter angle: Position this as a deliberate move into clinical trials from a strong methodological base. Emphasise that you already work with large health datasets, write analysis plans, manage data quality, and understand the regulatory context. ALK's investment in automation and data governance is the hook — show genuine curiosity about that direction and how your programming skills are directly relevant to it.
Address the gap directly: Acknowledge you haven't worked with EDC systems specifically, but note that your data management depth and technical skills mean the learning curve is in the tooling, not the underlying concepts.
Positioning: Frame as bringing deep methodological and regulatory understanding to a hands-on CDM role. The "drive innovation" language in the job description is the hook — your background in data engineering, LLMs, and reproducible pipelines is directly relevant to modernising clinical data management workflows.
Address the gap: Acknowledge no EDC system experience, but position your data management depth and technical stack (SAS, Python) as evidence the learning curve is in tooling, not concepts.
Honest assessment: The 5+ years patient safety requirement is a real barrier — this is a senior lead position and they mean it. Your pharmacovigilance research background is genuinely relevant but your experience depth in aggregate reporting (PSURs, RMPs) is limited.
If you apply: Send to job@besttalent.dk promptly given rolling urgency. Lead with your Regulatory Science PhD and the diabetes safety surveillance studies as the closest parallel to aggregate safety assessment work. Frame it as bringing strong methodological rigour from academic pharmacovigilance into industry reporting.
Honest assessment: Lundbeck is hiring for someone early-career curious about AI. You are a PhD with real LLM project experience. They may see you as overqualified; alternatively, they may see your technical depth as a bonus. The role description mentions only "a few lines of motivation" — low investment to apply.
If you apply: Keep the motivation minimal and lean into AI enthusiasm and pharma curiosity. Don't oversell the PhD — frame it as scientific rigour applied to practical AI implementation.
Honest assessment: This is the weakest domain fit in the batch. Marine coatings is far from your background, the role centres on Power BI tooling you haven't used, and it sits below your qualification level. The statistical work is present but not the focus. Apply if the other roles thin out or if you're genuinely drawn to the marine sustainability angle.
Key differentiator: Most applicants will be ML engineers without a research publication track record, or researchers without strong engineering depth. You sit at the intersection — an MSc in Social Data Science (explicitly listed), a PhD with peer-reviewed output, real-world data ML experience, and demonstrated ability to build end-to-end systems. That combination is unusual.
Domain gap strategy: The role is fundamentally about ML on real-world longitudinal data — the fact that the data is audiological rather than pharmacoepidemiological is a detail, not a disqualifier. Frame your SSRI outcome prediction work (predicting treatment response from registry data) as directly parallel to predicting hearing aid satisfaction from usage data. Both are treatment outcome prediction problems on observational, real-world cohorts.
Cover letter angle: Lead with the methodological parallel — real-world data, treatment outcomes, longitudinal population-level modelling — then acknowledge the domain shift as intentional and explain why hearing care research interests you. Eriksholm explicitly values research integrity and taking chances; that culture suits your profile well.
Note: Deadline is May 17 — same as the psychiatry statistician. Both deserve strong applications; this one may have higher upside given the research environment and the explicit MSc field match.
| # | Position | Why this order | Action needed |
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| ✓ | RWD Steward Manager — Novo Nordisk | Submitted Apr 23. | Done |
| 🎯 | Clinical Data & AI Engineer — ALK | Applied Apr 23 — interview secured. | Prepare for interview |
| — | Safety Surveillance Specialist — Novo Nordisk | Closed Apr 27 — not applied. | Closed |
| — | Senior COA Manager — Novo Nordisk | Closed Apr 28 — not applied. | Closed |
| 1 | Clinical Data Manager — ALK | Closes May 3 — 3 days. Short motivation letter only. | CV + short motivation letter via EasyCruit by May 2 |
| 2 | Analyst/Senior Analyst RWE — Signum Life Science | Rolling — near-perfect fit (9.0/10). Earlier is better. | Email CV + motivation to acfj@signumlifescience.com |
| 3 | Statistician / Senior Statistician — Copenhagen Research Centre for Biological & Precision Psychiatry | Strong fit (9.0/10). Deadline May 17 — 17 days. Full application package required. | Cover letter + CV + diplomas + publication list → Region H portal by May 16 |
| 3 | Scientist, Computational Audiology & ML — Demant / Eriksholm | Strong fit (8.5/10). MSc Social Data Science explicitly listed. Deadline May 17 — same day as psychiatry role. Research environment, publications valued. | CV + cover letter via Demant careers portal by May 16 |
| 4 | Senior CDM Professional — Novo Nordisk | Good fit (7.5/10). Closes May 4 — 4 days. Senior-level CDM; regulatory science background helps. | CV + cover letter via Novo Nordisk careers portal by May 3 |
| 5 | Safety Data Analysis & Reporting Lead — Ascendis Pharma | Rolling, recruiter says high urgency. Fit 6.5/10 — 5+ years PV requirement is a stretch. | Email to job@besttalent.dk, mark "1941 / Safety Data Analysis and Reporting Lead" |
| 6 | AI & Digital Transformation Professional — Lundbeck | Fit 6.0/10. Entry-level role — you are overqualified, but AI-in-pharma angle is interesting. Closes May 15. | CV + few lines motivation via Lundbeck careers portal by May 14 |
| 7 | Data Analyst — Hempel | Lowest fit (5.5/10). Marine domain mismatch; BI/Power BI focus differs from your analytical stack. Apply only if other options thin out. | CV + motivation letter via Workday portal |