Business development partner

Category:

Business Support & Administration

Would you like to drive the strategic development of an innovative technology department? Are you motivated by scaling an organization, implementing new technologies, and optimising pro-cesses while challenging the status quo? Then look no further! Apply today- you might be the Strategy & Innovation Partner, we are looking for to lead high-impact strategic initiatives!

The Position

As our Strategy & Innovation Partner, you will lead the deployment of our department’s strat-egy, ensuring we are equipped to support Novo Nordisk’s expansion through enhanced execu-tion capacity, strengthened internal processes, technological innovation, and organizational development. As the department has grown significantly in recent years, our strategy plays a central role in guiding the development of our internal structure, collaboration models, and roles – enabling us to meet the increasing demand for our services.

Your main tasks include:

· Ensure execution of the 2025 department strategy in collaboration with the department Deaprtment Management (MGMT) team

· Define and drive the annual strategy update process, along with the communication strategy

· Facilitate and structure the department’s technology innovation process

· Continuously optimizing the overall governance framework, ensuring a clear definition of the roles and responsibilities

· Plan and execute workshops within the department (eg strategy or new innovation)

· Plan and execute MGMT team offsites in collaboration with the department manager

You will be part of the management team in the Component Manufacturing Solutions depart-ment, which is a strong and diverse team of 5 managers with various backgrounds, a depart-ment assistant and a department director. You will be reporting to the department director and be a fully-fledged team member from day one. We will provide you with a comprehensive train-ing and onboarding.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we expect you to:

· Hold an academic degree in business, engineering or any other relevant field

· Solid experience within business development, senior management support and driving strategic projects in a global stakeholder landscape

· Possess change management and innovation skills (eg. Design thinking, Design SPRINT, agile)

· Experienced in preparing and delivering presentations at management level

· Proficiency in English, both written and spoken.

As a person, you possess the ability to see the greater picture in a complex and dynamic envi-ronment where changes in priorities, projects and timing can occur. You have a clear under-standing of what it means to boost value creation through innovation and know how to lever-age business development on the journey. You enjoy finding pragmatic ways to solve chal-lenges and you can ensure execution and translation of the strategy into value for the organiza-tion. You value diverse perspectives and invite our stakeholders to co-create sustainable solu-tions with mutual benefit. Last but not least, your excellent communication skills allow you to obtain strong commitment.

About the department

Our department FPMSAT Component Manufacturing Solutions (CMS) is responsible for develop-ing manufacturing equipment for high-volume production of medical device components and delivering it to new global manufacturing sites. We are approximately 70 highly skilled profes-sionals, organized into four teams of engineering experts and a project office, managing the ex-ecution of around 50 projects simultaneously.

We work in close collaboration with our internal device development organization and the re-ceiving sites, continuously balancing the delivery of robust, scalable processes to our global fac-tories with the innovation of technologies for tomorrow’s production. The department has dou-bled in size over the past few years to meet the rapidly growing demand for scaling Novo Nordisk’s device manufacturing globally. Technology innovation is part of our culture, and we have successfully transformed technological concepts into impactful solutions. In the area of sustainability, we have long supported a company-wide effort to revolutionize the plastic indus-try through sustainable feedstock and advanced recycling. Looking ahead, our next frontiers include additive manufacturing and the increased use of manufacturing data to predict quality outcomes.

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 inde-pendent of chronic disease.

Contact

For further information, contact Director for Component Manufacturing Solutions, Mattias Ingerslev.

Deadline

25 May, 2025.

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.