Project Portfolio Partner

Job title:

Project Portfolio Partner

Company:

Novo Nordisk

Job description

Are you ready to embark on a journey to redefine the future of manufacturing? Would you feel motivated by leading a transformative Project Portfolio, driving excellence throughout our organization?If this resonated with you, we are looking forward to having you in Device Manufacturing Development (DMD), where together we are offering unparalleled expertise and are actively shaping the industry. Apply today!The positionAs Project Portfolio Partner, your role involves driving the Project Portfolio agenda in our fast-growing organization, assessing our business needs, and implementing the best solutions across DMD. You will be a trusted business partner to our management.
Your main responsibilities encompass:

• Driving and reinforcing project portfolio processes to align with management’s strategic initiatives
• Initiating the prioritization of projects and reallocation of resources
• Facilitating portfolio management and prioritization meetings to drive alignment and efficiency
• Taking the lead on the implementation of a new Project Portfolio Management (PPM) tool
• Optimizing our portfolio operations maximizing the effectiveness of our portfolio tool, continuously fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence

In this position, you develop and maintain relationships within our organization and with our stakeholders. Simultaneously, you will be heading up a forum across our organization to ensure our portfolio keeps being value-adding to the organization which require alignment and coordination to ensure we continuously optimize the way we work with projects and reporting.QualificationsTo succeed in this role, we believe you:

• Hold a MSc Degree or equivalent in Engineering, Pharmacy, Business, or a similar field
• Bring a minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in project management and at least 2 years of proven expertise in portfolio management
• Showcase strong skills in change management and stakeholder engagement
• Possess prior experience working with PPM tools
• Display proficiency in both written and spoken English

On a personal level, you excel in collaborating with diverse stakeholders in a global environment, demonstrating flexibility and strong personal drive to navigate varying priorities from high-level stakeholders. With a “can-do” attitude, you tackle challenges of any scale with excellent communication skills, adeptly navigating complex governance structures across organizational tiers. Your analytical approach, coupled with solid negotiation and diplomatic skills, ensures effective problem-solving. Furthermore, you are a dedicated team player, committed to enhancing team performance while maintaining high work quality.About the departmentBusiness Support is a department within DMD, consisting of 20 highly skilled professionals striving to support and meet complex organizational needs. We drive cross-functional agendas within Strategy deployment, Finance, Lean, Innovation, Training, EHS, and Project & Portfolio Management.We are a lively and diverse team, with experts from various educational backgrounds and different levels of experience. At work, although ambitions are high, we try to keep a light and informal tone.You will be a fully-fledged member of the team from day one, and we will train and onboard you with great care. You will experience workdays with a large degree of flexibility. At the same time, you will have the chance to work closely with highly skilled colleagues across the organization.Working at Novo NordiskWe 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 energise 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.ContactFor further information, please contact Marie Louise Brøndum Svendsen, Project Back Office Associate Manager, at +45 34485288.Deadline7 April 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.

Expected salary

Location

Hillerød, Hovedstaden

Job date

Sat, 16 Mar 2024 23:40:03 GMT

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