Manager of Data and Digital Team

Are you passionate about leading a team of data professionals and digitalisation partners? Do you have a knack for developing and implementing data and digitalisation strategies? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Join us as the Manager of Data and Digital Team and help drive our strategic goals forward. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position

As the Manager of Data and Digital Team, you will develop and implement the data and digitalisation strategy for the CVP area, ensuring alignment with broader corporate objectives on SVP and EVP levels. You will lead, mentor, and develop a team of data professionals and digitalisation experts, fostering a culture of innovation, continuous learning, and high performance.

Additionally, you will be tasked with:

• Managing the portfolio of data and digitalisation projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget, and meet the strategic goals of the CVP area.
• Overseeing data management practices, ensuring data integrity, security, and compliance with pharmaceutical industry standards and regulations.
• Working closely with cross-functional teams and all departments across the CVP area to identify opportunities for digital transformation and drive initiatives that enhance efficiency and effectiveness.
• Being responsible for cross-functional challenge and improvements, setting direction, and improving processes to ensure fulfilment of SoOp business objectives and strategy.

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with the following qualifications:

• Academic Degree within Business, IT, Supply Chain, or similar.
• 3-5 years of relevant professional experience within IT, business support/development, supply chain, or operations.
• Strong stakeholder’s management experience.
• Experience in people management will be a significant advantage, but if you are just beginning in this area, we will support your development.

On a personal level, you have empathy, self-management, inclusivity, and respect for diversity. You have ability to foster a healthy, engaging, and inclusive work environment, build trust, and motivate teams. You are thriving in coaching, providing feedback, fostering growth, and developing talents. Additionally, you’re excellent in communicating a compelling vision, making bold decisions, and seeking innovative solutions. You dive outcomes: demonstrating agility, holding accountability, empowering others, and simplifying processes.

About the department

You will be part of the IT, Data & Digital department, which is responsible for building and managing data insights, driving digitalization and innovation in processes within Sourcing Operations (SoOp), implementing new IT equipment and ensure life-cycle and operations of existing. SoOp has overall responsibility for the incoming supply chain at Novo Nordisk and consists of more than 600 dedicated employees.

You will join a diverse and high-performing team with a variety of backgrounds in data analysis, innovation, digitalization, IT, and project management. We use our differences to create novel ideas and high-quality solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the Sourcing Operations function globally. You will work in the headquarters, characterized by innovation, openness, and highly engaged colleagues who are dedicated to changing lives for the better for patients around the world.

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 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.

Contact

For further information please contact Casper Maigaard Paustian at cpp@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

12 January 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 to 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.