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Novo Nordisk

Senior Portfolio Manager

November 1, 2024

Senior Portfolio Manager

Category: Project Management & Agile

Location:Høje-Taastrup, Capital Region of Denmark, DK

Are you passionate about portfolio management, eager to develop and drive impactful reporting processes, navigating a dynamic stakeholder landscape? Do you thrive in shaping the direction of a large and complex project portfolio?

Then we might have the right position for you. Apply now and join a growing and fast-moving team!

The position

As Senior Portfolio Manager in this newly established role, you will be responsible for further developing our portfolio management framework and processes, which helps prioritise capacity use across our product portfolio, including both developing and commercialised products.

The portfolio prioritisation is reported to senior management and used to discuss and decide how to use the production capacity, so you will play a crucial role in ensuring transparency and ability to compare across the projects.

Your key responsibilities include:

Driving and further developing our project portfolio, creating a clear link to our strategy and therapy area ambitions
Ensuring that the portfolio sets direction for how to prioritise production capacity across developing and Life Cycle Management projects
Managing change related to transforming our way of working with portfolio management
Engaging with various stakeholders, ensuring buy-in, commitment, and training the organisation to facilitate successful implementation of new initiatives
Drive complex portfolio assessments addressing portfolio opportunities and challenges

Your role also involves developing and implementing portfolio management principles and processes that ensure the foundation of our portfolio, including streamlined reporting, scenario building, risk management, and dependencies between the portfolio projects.

You will also collaborate with other portfolio management offices across the Novo Nordisk organisation.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we believe you:

Hold a master’s degree within a relevant field such as science, engineering, manufacturing, or business
Have +5 years of experience working with portfolio management frameworks, processes, and tools
Demonstrate hands-on experience in implementing and driving portfolio management in large, complex organisations
Possess strong presentation and communication skills, able to structure material and tailor communication to different stakeholders including senior management
Display proficiency in both spoken and written English

Experience with portfolio management in the life science or pharmaceutical sector, along with strong industry business acumen, would be a significant advantage.

On a personal level, you excel at navigating complex organisations, building strong internal networks through trust and delivering high-quality work. You have the ability to drive initiatives independently, and set clear direction, while your communication skills enable you to build bridges and secure stakeholder commitment. You thrive on fostering collaboration across departments, embracing a positive attitude, and inspiring others to work together toward shared goals.

About the department
Development Product Portfolio (DPP) is a new area established to improve Novo Nordisk’s ability to prioritise and develop our pipeline with a keen focus on product potential, manufacturability, scalability, as well as future capacity needs in close collaboration with Global Supply Chain.

You will join the Portfolio & Analysis department within DPP, which is a newly established and growing department with the key purpose to operate and develop our DPP project portfolio as well as project reporting processes, tools & templates.

We offer a modern and flexible working environment, giving everyone the opportunity to be themselves and do their best, whilst working with truly talented colleagues. While we are dedicated to our tasks, we maintain focus on preserving a healthy work-life balance.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

If you wish to know more about this position, please contact Manager, Sif Press-Kristensen, +45 3083 3733.

Deadline
6 November 2024.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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.

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