VAT Manager

Finance, Legal & Global Solutions

Bagsvaerd, Denmark

Are you well-versed in dealing with indirect taxes, particularly VAT? Do you thrive in a fast-paced global environment and like turning complexity into clarity? Are you excited about the advantages of new digital solutions and motivated by collaborating with a broad range of stakeholders?

If so, join our Corporate Tax team and help us ensure our indirect tax framework is shaped for the future.

Your new role

We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented VAT Manager to join our team. In this role, you will be instrumental in safeguarding our indirect tax compliance, driving efficiency and support improvements across processes and systems.

Some of your responsibilities will be to:

• Act as a trusted internal VAT advisor across multiple tax jurisdictions
• Manage VAT compliance , including VAT returns, EC Sales Lists, Intrastat and related filings ensuring optimized, timely and accurate submissions

• Engage in the success of our tax technology strategy for indirect taxes, contributing to seeking opportunities for automation and efficiency
• Support automated data-driven solutions across jurisdictions
• Advise on e-invoicing, SAF-T and e-reporting requirements

Your new department

In Novo Nordisk’s Corporate Tax department, we are 20 dedicated employees. You will be part of the Indirect Tax Team which advises on VAT, customs duties, energy taxes and excise duties. You will refer to the Director of the team. Further to this, you will be part of the Global Tax organisation encompassing.

Your skills and qualifications
To be successful in this role, we expect you to have: 

• A Master’s degree in auditing, law or other relevant field, and solid experience from a similar position
• Extensive knowledge of the legal requirements on indirect tax (5+ years), especially in Europe. It will be an advantage to have experience in the legislation on energy taxes, customs duties and/or excise duties
• Fluency in English, both verbal and in writing

As a person, you possess strong communication and stakeholder management skills, analytical skills and well-founded documentation practices, including strong data handling and excel competencies.

You have a high level of drive and a strong sense of responsibility. You are proactive, work in a structured way, and ensure compliance, timely delivery, and high quality. You can handle complexity and know how to make things simple and understandable to people at all levels in the organisation.

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.

What We Offer 
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

More information

For further information, please contact Mette Just Danielsen, Indirect Tax Director at +45 34 44 27 81.

Deadline

11 January 2026. Please submit your application in English.

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.

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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.

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

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.