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Do you want help shape Novo Nordisk’s approach to unmet medical needs and novel therapeutics? Do you wish to play a pivotal role in defining, enabling and realising strategies in the Cardio-renal therapy area within Global Drug Discovery in Novo Nordisk? If yes, come join our team as a Strategic Business Partner and help shape the future of our organisation!

The position

As Strategic Business Partner, you will act as a strategic sparring partner to the Corporate Vice President and you will join the Cardio-renal leadership team in global drug discovery. You will be responsible for contributing to the development and operationalisation of initiatives within the Therapy Area and work across the organisation and value chain.

Some of your responsibilities will include:

  • Serving as a trusted advisor for the CVP on key business matters and providing insights and analyses to support decision-making

  • Assisting and contributing to development, formulation and execution of strategic projects and objectives

  • Dash boarding and pattern spotting across drug discovery and development projects

  • Advocating for the therapy area and solving resourcing conflicts within operational support functions

  • Preparing presentations and agendas for leadership and executive meetings

  • Overseeing project tracking and management, including maintaining an overview of operational activities and contributing to reporting processes

  • Managing ad hoc tasks such as planning off-site events

The position will be based in either Måløv, Denmark or London/Oxford, UK.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, we expect you to have:

  • PhD or Master’s degree in life science with minimum 5 years of experience within MedTech, biotech or the pharmaceutical industry

  • Solid project management experience and experience in driving strategic projects in a complex organisation

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively engage with diverse stakeholders, including senior management.

  • Experience in translational science or human-centric drug discovery would be an advantage

On a personal level, you are proactive, well-organised and capable of effectively navigating complex business challenges and driving strategic initiatives. You are curious and confident engaging with complex technical and medical subject-matters. You are ambitious for the potential of science to make a difference to patients.

About the department

The position is anchored in Cardiorenal Research within Global Drug Discovery at Novo Nordisk. As part of Novo Nordisk’s strategy withing chronic disease, we are focusing on target identification, target validation and pre-clinical characterisation of new assets intended to become novel treatment for patients with cardiometabolic diseases. In close collaboration with our colleagues, we are working to develop, characterise, and utilise in vitro tools to elucidate mod-of-action and profiling of novel biology and molecules for early drug candidates.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information please contact Joanna Holbrook at OJHK@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

2 June 2024.

We will screen applications on an ongoing 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 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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