Clinical Research Associate Trainee

Novo Nordisk

Novo is a global healthcare company dedicated to driving change for lasting health. For more than a century, we have combined scientific innovation with a deep understanding of people’s lives to prevent and treat serious chronic diseases. Our work goes beyond medicines, focusing on the biological, emotional, social and environmental factors that influence health. By bringing science closer to real life, we develop solutions that help people live healthier lives. Today, more than 67,000 employees worldwide contribute to our purpose: driving change towards lasting health and creating a positive impact for patients, communities and society.

Your impact begins here

As Clinical Research Associate Trainee in Portugal, you will join the Hands-on programme and support CRAs as their role becomes more strategic, risk-based and digital. You will be able to actively support the daily activities of the clinical trials team with opportunities to learn and grow with a high standard training programme.

Your work helps strengthen quality and speed up digital and AI adoption in the clinical trials that support people living with serious chronic diseases.

What You’ll Bring

No previous CRA or monitoring experience is needed.

A life sciences degree.
A post-graduation or master’s in clinical monitoring
Fluency in Portuguese and English. Spanish (considered an asset).
Interest in clinical research, and accuracy when working with data.
Basic understanding of clinical trial methodology and awareness of ICH-GCP, data integrity and risk-based quality, with a willingness to learn.
Working knowledge of spreadsheets and presentation tools, an aptitude for dashboards and automation, and an interest in responsible AI use.
Integrity, a focus on quality and patient safety, and confidence in escalating concerns.

Useful, But Not Essential

Academic projects in clinical research, data analysis, dashboards or process improvement.

What You’ll Do

Working under supervision, you will help CRAs make site management clearer, faster and more risk focused.

Prepare site interactions and follow-up, consolidate recruitment, retention and site performance information, and keep action trackers up to date.
Join site and study meetings and supervised monitoring activities, as your training allows.
Build basic dashboards, trackers and templates, and help design, test and document simple automations, including AI-enabled ones, using approved tools.
Review agreed metrics and flag potential risks or data quality issues to the responsible CRA or study team.
Support documentation checks and inspection readiness within your assigned scope.

Who You’ll Work With

You will be based in Lisbon within Research & Development in the Portuguese affiliate. Your closest partners are the CRAs, your supervisor or mentor and Clinical Operations management.

What You Can Expect Here

You will learn by doing real work, with a mentor, clear learning objectives and training that builds your clinical research knowledge. You will own your tasks, be heard when you spot a better way of working and build capabilities for potential future CRA opportunities.

For this position, the monthly gross salary is 920€. Our benefits include 17,40€ food allowance per day worked (part in meal card and other in salary complement), IT Equipment, Work Accident Insurance and Perks in the office such as food and beverages (snacks, daily soup and drinks), massages and other team building events.

Benefits will be implemented according to the company procedures, guidelines & business needs.

Duration of the program is 1 year.

Start now

Your impact begins today. Apply for the Clinical Research Associate Trainee role by 13 November 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so apply as soon as you can.

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