Senior Digital Innovation Hub Consultant

Department – Digital Innovation Hub APAC

Are you passionate about driving Commercial Digital Strategy & Partnerships? Do you have the creativity and flexibility to link internal business priorities with emerging technologies? We are looking for a Senior Digital Innovation Hub Consultant to join our team at Novo Nordisk GBS India office. If that sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As a Senior DIH Consultant, you will lead and drive cross-functional initiatives that leverage emerging technologies, facilitate specific ideation processes both internally and externally, convincingly, and clearly communicate to stakeholders across the business, and act as a trusted advisor with a strong knowledge of business challenges and constraints. We are looking for flexibility and creativity to link internal business priorities and engage with relevant external ecosystem players in India to drive commercial digital partnerships, support with new and emerging business model opportunities with digital ecosystem and build scalable ecosystem partnerships in the digital space. Having an enterprise and entrepreneurial mindset is key to success in this role.

Your tasks will include:

• Engage with the business units to understand their commercial strategy and identify their business priorities and needs.
• Manage and drive the innovation programs following the Novo Nordisk Fast Track Innovation framework: Create and launch calls for applications, scout and evaluate relevant digital health ecosystem partners, organize the selection of solutions, and manage program logistics.
• Coordinate, follow up and monitor internal business units and external partners to ensure successful collaboration.
• Support with communication and content curation for internal/external stakeholders by periodically updating the trends and insights from the ecosystem.
• Build and participate in digital health ecosystem engagement and network of the global Digital Innovation Hubs (accelerators, incubators, academia, VCs, communities).
• Attend and represent the regional DIH APAC in relevant local events and conferences. Organize meetups and events to attract startups and ecosystem players.
• Become a trusted advisor for internal stakeholders on digital innovation and commercial partnerships that have potential to unlock new business models as well as positive impact on the business topline.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor’s degree in IT and/or Business, Innovation, or Strategy.
• At least 7 years of experience working in designing and launching strategic partnerships, venture capital, management consulting, and/or partnership management in a corporate.
• Experience and passion for connecting the dots from a digital perspective and/or knowledge of working with or in the digital health ecosystem will be a plus.
• Able to tailor messages to relevant stakeholders from various levels of authority and experience internally selling concepts and initiatives that challenge the status quo.
• Strong analytical, technical, and business acumen is needed to navigate the landscape of startups and translate uncertainties into tangible opportunities for Novo Nordisk.
• With an innovation track record working on, or driving, disruptive projects from idea to launch and has the eagerness to be a part of building something new and challenge traditional methodologies.

About the department

The Digital Innovation Hub APAC is located at Novo Nordisk Singapore office and you will be reporting directly the DIH Lead. This role requires you to be physically located in one of our locations in Bangalore, India and may require local and international travel to serve business objective.

Our team is dedicated to driving digital innovation and partnering initiatives that leverage emerging technology from the growing ecosystem. We focus on identifying and experimenting with high potential partners to deliver local impact with global scalability. Our dynamic and collaborative environment fosters creativity and flexibility, enabling us to drive commercial digital partnerships and support new and emerging business model opportunities.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

If you believe you are a match for the above requirements and are willing to take up the role, please apply here with our online application tool.

Deadline

Apply on or before: 17th January 2025.

Disclaimer

It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment 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.