Are you passionate about IT portfolio management and helping the organisation achieve its strategic objectives? Do you have a strong drive for executing initiatives to strengthen portfolio management and managing strategy reporting? 

We are looking for a Portfolio Analyst to join our Strategy and Transformation team at Novo Nordisk. If you are ready to make a significant impact, this could be your chance.

Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!

The position

As a Portfolio Analyst, you will be a key contributor driving portfolio management in the Global IT Operations (GITO) Cross-ART Forum with Product Managers and Release Train Engineers (RTEs). You’ll work collaboratively with stakeholders across teams and contribute to high-level decision-making.

In this role you will have the opportunity to:

• Collaborate closely with the Digital, Data & IT (DD&IT) Finance team to ensure a strong link between the budget process and the portfolio of IT initiatives
• Support the creation of clear, concise, and visually engaging overviews to facilitate decision-making on the portfolio
• Analyse existing project portfolios to assess alignment with strategic objectives and identify areas for optimisation, consolidation, or realignment within the project portfolio
• Generating data-driven insights to assist the leadership team in making informed decisions regarding project evaluation, prioritisation and resource allocation
• Developing and presenting recommendations for portfolio adjustments to support the organization's goals

You will also work closely with the Strategy and Transformation team, including Organisational Change Managers and Transformation Leads, ensuring alignment and secure collaboration through continuous stakeholder management.

This position is a fixed-term role covering parental leave, with an expected duration of approximately one year.

Qualifications

To be the ideal candidate for this position, we imagine you meet most of the following requirements:

• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in a field, such as Software Engineering, Computer Science or Business Administration and minimum 3 years of relevant business experience
• Experience working within Agile IT framework (e.g. Scaled Agile Framework) and the ability to navigate both traditional waterfall projects and Agile initiatives (e.g. Epics)

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to create strategic overview and insights (e.g. project portfolios, architectural roadmaps)
• Consultant’s mindset ready to take on new challenging assignments

Your ability to manage complexity, adapt to different frameworks, and maintain an overview will be key to thriving in this role. If you feel you might not meet all requirements, we encourage you to apply anyway – your unique skills could be exactly what we need!

About the department

This role is situated within our Global IT Infrastructure and Operations department, a dynamic team of 600 professionals spanning Denmark, the US, and India. As part of the GITO Strategy & Transformations department, you will join a dynamic group focused on driving the strategy process and enhancing the agile delivery engine. You will be working out of Ballerup, Denmark, in a dynamic and collaborative environment.

Be part of the Novo Nordisk family

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 57,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.

Every day, our thousands of digital experts work in all areas of technology. We navigate the tech spectrum from front-end to back-end, from artificial intelligence to machine learning, and from cloud systems to quantum computing. All to make a tangible impact on lives across the globe. How? Go explore at TechLife at Novo Nordisk.

Contact

If you want to know more, please reach out to Erik Johnsen Vinther, Head of Lean Portfolio Management and Local Lean-Agile Center of Excellence, at +45 3079 0877.

Deadline

30 June 2025

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation in your resume or CV. In addition, please avoid the use of photos in your CV. This makes for a better and more fair process.

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.