Senior Executive Sourcing Partner

This is the opportunity to demonstrate your expertise within executive recruitment, engage with senior leadership and thrive in a global, fast-paced environment where your insights directly influence executive succession and hiring as our new Senior Executive Sourcing Partner.

In this role, you will act as a senior strategic partner, identifying executive-level talent for active senior leadership searches and prioritized external succession pipelines. Your expertise in market dynamics and competitive intelligence will be pivotal in safeguarding our mission to defeat serious chronic diseases.

The position will be based in Denmark or within one of the Novo Nordisk Virtualhubs with CET Timezone.

Your new role

As a Senior Executive Sourcing Partner, you will provide strategic talent intelligence and lead complex sourcing activities globally. You will be a subject-matter expert, trusted to independently manage highly confidential or ambiguous searches at the executive level.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Sourcing & Engagement: Identifying and engaging executive-level talent globally, assessing background and motivation, and alignment with our mission and values.
• Talent Intelligence: Generating high-quality, actionable insights, i.e. talent availability and competitive market dynamics, to inform search strategies.

• Market Mapping: Leading "silent mapping" activities and building intelligence on candidate market, industry, competitors and movement trends.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partnering closely with Executive Search Advisors, HR Business Partners, and senior stakeholders to align on search progress and market realities.
• Pipeline Building: Developing and maintaining talent communities for critical leadership roles with a focus on future-ready and diverse capabilities.
• Operational Excellence: Maintaining high standards of documentation, regulations, systems and AI technology.

Your new department

You will join the Sourcing & Insights within Talent Engagement. We are a senior team of 9 people based in US, UK and Denmark, and we are dedicated to finding the best senior leadership talent to drive Novo Nordisk’s growth. In this role, you will partner with the Senior Leadership Search (SLS) team, focusing on the most critical and senior positions in the organization.

We approach our work with close collaboration, constant curiosity and a commitment to innovation, leveraging new technologies and AI-enabled tools to enhance our sourcing efficiency and insight generation.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for a results-oriented professional who can think "out of the box" on non-linear

searches and manage senior stakeholders. To succeed, you should bring:

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of progressive HR/Talent Acquisition experience, including at least 5 years focused on executive search, talent intelligence, or leadership research.
• Educational Background: An academic degree in Business, Science, Human Resources, Psychology, or a related field.
• Strategic Mindset: A strong track record of leading sourcing for complex, global, and succession-critical leadership roles.
• Analytical Skills: Expertise in synthesizing market dynamics and competitive insights into evidence-based recommendations for senior leadership.
• Technical Proficiency: Extensive experience with advanced Talent Acquisition systems and tools.
• Communication: Fluency in English (written and spoken) and experience interacting with senior leaders.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t just offer a job; we offer a career that makes a difference. For over 100 years, we have been driven by a shared purpose to create extraordinary results for patients. When you join us, you become part of a culture characterized by mutual respect, diverse thinking, and a determination to find better ways forward.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk, you’ll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600.00 to 1,091,600.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position. The salary ranges may have difference depending on virtualhub location.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level,  location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Contact and Deadline

Apply by 2 June 2026 at the latest. For further information, please contact Associate Director Sourcing & Insights, Bill Halko at WHKO@novonordisk.com or visit www.novonordisk.com/careers.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.