Organisational Change Manager- Data Science

Are you passionate about organisational change management (OCM)? Are you an experienced organisational change and stakeholder manager? Do you have strong experience translating strategy and digital products into concrete, meaningful, and impactful initiatives, and do you thrive in co-creating and facilitating engaging dialogues with product teams and Line of Business?

Then this is your chance to help shape and drive organizational change initiatives and culture towards realising our strategic aspirations.

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The position

As organisational change manager you will be part of our organisational change management team in Data Science Strategic & Digital Development.

You will primarily work within our agile set up and together with the agile teams that are developing our digital solutions. Including a new automated, scalable and multilingual computing environment for collecting, managing, and sharing clinical trial data across sources. However, you will also be part of a more central enablement of organisational change management as a capability within and across our agile set-up and Line of Business.

As a Organisational Change Manager, you will have the opportunity to:

• Be responsible for the organisational change management activities from planning and conceptualization over engagement and implementation
• Champion the use of best practice organisational change management standards, tools and processes and collaborate closely with your fellow change agent experts
• Apply your ability to confidently advice on, challenge and influence organisational culture, mindset and business processes for the benefit of the Line of Business, while at the same time building credibility and trust
• Enable the develop of an organisational change mindset and toolbox across various functions, levels and stakeholders
• Enforce enhanced communication, transparency and collaboration and alignment across the whole stakeholder landscape
• Work closely together with the agile set-up, sponsors, end-users and the change community across various business functions in developing and tracking the progress and value of change
• Cultivate influential stakeholder networks with the purpose to spearhead strong and organic growing change agent communities that spearhead and drive a transformative and sustainable cultural development in Data Science

Embracing situational flexibility and agility, you will apply a proactive and open mindset in your approach to executing your responsibilities.

Qualifications

We see our next colleagues as having:

• Proven capabilities in planning and delivering an change management strategy that ensures profound outcome through lasting change at all levels in the organisation
• Excellent experience in redefining and refining operating models, organisational mapping and change risk and readiness assessment as part of driving cross functional transformation
• Experience with being an active sparring partner and facilitate change to ensure project teams are enabled to drive the right organisational change management activities
• Highly collaborative as you will be partnering with various people and functions, across the organization, and organisational change management colleagues supporting other projects with strong interdependencies
• Proven consultancy toolbox and exceptional communication and engagement skills aligned with all stakeholder levels
• Ability to build and foster networks of change champions and agents across the organisation
• Qualification in project management and OCM methodologies in an agile set up. We work according to the SAFe principles
• 3 plus years of experience in relevant area of business for instance organisational change, communication, HR or other relevant

As a person, you are empathic and energetic and excel in an environment with a high degree of empowerment. You are curious, open minded and highly self-motivated to work independently, within delegated authority, with minimal or no supervision. You have a global and growth mindset and is a natural and involving team-player. You are the let’s do it-type and have the ability and willingness to follow through and find solutions. You are a good listener with an outside-in perspective that bridge and brings parties and people together. Also you have a strong understanding of how assigned responsibilities impact other processes and the work of other people.

About the department

In Novo Nordisk, Development is responsible for managing clinical drug development worldwide, helping Novo Nordisk in driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases through developing innovative and sustainable treatment solutions and making them accessible to patients worldwide.

Our area, Data Science Strategic & Digital Development, supports the Data Science organisation in defining and executing its flagship digitalisation initiatives towards enabling our clinical submissions with data insights and realising strategic aspirations.

We are a team of four change managers, one student assistant and various OCM consultants and UX people, who all bring different backgrounds and skills to driving change in the company. We work independently and together and we at all times aim to have fun at work. We are ambitious, explorative and act as good change agents all across our stakeholder landscape. We focus on realizing the organizational organisational change management vision in Data Science but also to a large extend liaise with other areas across Novo Nordisk with the purpose to strengthen and enabling the ability to handle and leverage on change.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change. We drive it. We are 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 letting perfection standing in the way of good. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we are all working to move the needle on patient care. 

Contact

To hear more on the position, you are welcome to contact Anja Lykke, Head of Change on AJVK@novonordisk.com or +45 34488899 or Christel Nygaard Engedal, Head of Digital Transformation on CNEY@novonordisk.com or +45 34485315

Deadline

13 May 2024

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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.