• Job Description

  Req#: 284761

  Do you want to drive change and sustain a value driven Development organisation? Are you looking for a position in which you will set direction, and drive value generation and prioritisation? If so, then you could be our new Business Partner. Apply today!

  The position

  As Business Partner you will be responsible for driving, facilitating, and developing true value creation for the Data Science organisation to unlock our business aspirations and ensure appropriate resource allocation and prioritisation.

  This includes building resource models, ensuring clear business priorities and well thought through business cases that maximises value end-to-end, and optimising processes across our value chain ultimately enabling new medicines to patients.

  As our business partner, you will set a clear direction for resource allocation and follow-up on key business priorities, including being able to measure tangible progress, supporting ambitious target setting for the business, and being an active driver in fulfilling them. This also involves making tangible business cases to ensure well thought through big investments. Additionally, you secure close alignment on priorities and dependencies across Data Science for major ongoing initiatives.

  Your responsibilities will include to drive:

  • Resource allocation across Data Science including drive decision on where and how to invest in the area
  • Business cases for new investments and ensure benefits are realised
  • Visual traction of business goals
  • Culture within the team, characterised by curiosity, passion, openness, and psychological safety

  As well as ensuring that the end-to-end value chain focus in deliverables

  Qualifications

  You hold a university degree within Finance, Business or Business Intelligence and have at least 3-6 years of relevant work experience.

  In addition, to be a successful Business Partner, the following qualifications are required:

  • Strong problem-solving skills with curiosity to understand and dive into problems systematically while focusing on the overall purpose and end-goal
  • You can set clear direction, prioritise, and communicate a compelling purpose and vision with passion and urgency on all levels of the organisation
  • Experience with Business Intelligence tools is preferred, but most importantly you are curious to learn and have strong analytical skills
  • A passion for digitalisation is an advantage

  About The Department

  In Novo Nordisk, our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases

  by providing the best sustainable solutions and products. To identify the right solutions for tomorrow, we need to digitalize the way we do development.

  Data Science is an area within Development, responsible for managing clinical drug development worldwide, from early development phases to product introduction and life cycle management. In Data Science our focus is to deliver data and data insights through advanced analytics to support new drug submission. We provide insights to fact-based decisions on new drugs and indications for Novo Nordisk product portfolio, which make a difference for the patients.

  In Data Science Strategic & Digital Development, we drive the strategy and operations across the Data Science organisation. We support the Data Science Leadership Team in setting the scene, the goals and follow-up on deliverables. This leads the planning and designing of the Data Science strategy, and we drive and oversee implementation. We collaborate and liaise intensively with other areas both within Development and across Novo Nordisk.

  We have fun at work, collaborate with skilled and engaged colleagues in delivering tangible results.

  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.

  Contacts

  Valdemar Borum Svarrer, Vice President and Head of Strategic & Digital Development, jvls@novonordisk.com, mobile +45 30790301.

  Deadline

  3 September 2023 The process for handling all incoming applications will happen on an on-going basis

  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 a 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.

• About the company

  Novo Nordisk A/S is a Danish multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Bagsværd, Denmark, with production facilities in eight countries, and affiliates or offices in 5 countries.

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