Finance Partner for Global Contract Manufacturing - Drug Product

Do you want to use your strong financial skills and business mind-set in supporting Novo Nordisk’s ambitious production expansion journey? Are you ready to take on diverse responsibilities from operational finance to business partnering and process optimisation? Do you get energy from interacting with stakeholders and delivering insights for tangible decision-making? Would you like to be part of a financial centre of excellence together with ambitious, engaged and fun colleagues where you get to influence how we develop?

Then this is a great opportunity for you to join us as Finance Partner in the Business Finance team and contribute to shaping the future of external manufacturing one of the fastest growing global areas in Novo Nordisk’s value chain.

The position

As a Finance Partner for Global Contract Manufacturing – Drug Product, we look to find a person early in their career, to be responsible for the financial management and partnering to our Global Contract Manufacturing – Drug Product (GCM DP) business unit. You will be involved in execution of core financial processes in our financial annual wheel as well as activities related to financial management and digital finance. The position offers a steep learning curve with plenty of exciting opportunities to make an impact, where you will help ensure strong financial tracking and development of your Financial Planning & Analysis capabilities, while helping to define how we do external manufacturing from a financial perspective.

As a Finance Partner for Global Contract Manufacturing – Drug Product, your responsibilities include:

• Operating the annual financial wheel of financial budgeting and reporting for GCM DP operating costs, hereunder planning and executing budget updates, ensuring that we are transparent and in good control of changes in between budget rounds
• Delivering high quality insights and forecasting to support business decisions and actions
• Driving value creation by linking finance activities to business priorities, and ensuring connection between business plans, activities, and optimal resource allocation, and delivering trusted finance business partnering to support decision making
• Continuously improving productivity by optimizing and visualizing financial insights and processes through digital finance and improving ways of working

Qualifications

To thrive and succeed in this role, you possess:

• Master’s degree within Finance, Economics or Accounting (cand.merc., cand.oecon., cand.polit or similar)
• Good understanding of financial management and controlling, with a minimum 2 years of experience within a relevant finance discipline, e.g. Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
• Experience with BI tools (tableau, PowerBI etc.) as well as SAP is an advantage, but not a pre-requisite, but an appetite to explore and work with these
• Proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficiency in both oral and written English
• Good communication and presentation skills

As a person, you come with a high level of initiative and energy, a strong motivation for combining finance and business partnering, and a willingness to take responsibility for your own learning. Furthermore, we expect you to be structured, analytical and have a feeling for what is going on in the business. You also drive tasks and projects forward independently, thrive in a flexible, fast-paced and multicultural environment.  It is essential that you are self-driven and proactive striving to learn and to achieve ambitious goals. You pay timely and appropriate attention to details when needed.

About the department

You will report to the Senior Manager of the External Supply Business Finance team. The team develops and drives financial management within operational costs and manning and is responsible for the External Supply area across all product portfolios, external contributors and on behalf of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT. This includes sourcing operations, strategic sourcing, and management of all contract manufacturers.

You will be part of a team currently consisting of 12 employees, 9 in Denmark and 3 in India, which value purpose, responsibility and proactiveness. As a team, we treasure our open and informal team spirit and identity and build our success on a high level of mutual trust within the team. We focus on continuously improving individual and team competencies with a clear focus of people development.

The position is based in Høje Taastrup.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 75,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For more information, please contact Torben Emil Fredsgård, Senior Finance Manager at TOEF@novonordisk.com

Deadline

30 March 2025

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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.