Business Partner

Business Partner
Global Manufacturing & Supply
Kalundborg, Denmark

Shape strategic decisions that impact our global API manufacturing footprint and help deliver life-saving medicines to millions of patients worldwide.

Your new role

As Business Partner in the API Executive Office, you'll be at the heart of strategic decision-making for API Manufacturing. You'll drive critical processes that shape how we manage risk, ensure business continuity, and maintain compliance across our global operations. This role combines strategic process responsibility with hands-on problem-solving, giving you direct exposure to senior leadership while building your expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing.

Day-to-day your tasks will include:

• Driving key strategic processes including Enterprise Risk Management, Business Continuity, and Business Ethics across API Manufacturing
• Designing and establishing new processes that meet evolving requirements from Global Manufacturing & Supply GMS and Novo Nordisk level
• Leading and supporting critical assignments for the SVP of API Manufacturing and API Leadership Team
• Facilitating management dialogues and decision-making processes and interacting with stakeholders across different organizational levels
• Developing compelling presentations on complex topics for audiences ranging from employees to senior leadership
• Balancing multiple priorities while maintaining a business-critical perspective and ensuring timely delivery

Your new department

In GMS, we cover the full value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo Nordisk products. We are more than 30,000 colleagues across the globe with the shared responsibility of scaling molecules, processes, devices, and products, dedicated to supplying life-saving medicines to the patients who need them most.

The API Manufacturing Executive Office supports the Senior Vice President of API Manufacturing and the API Leadership Team. As a small, agile team, we own and facilitate strategic processes, drive organizational initiatives, and provide critical support and scoping to solve complex business challenges. Our work spans portfolio governance, risk management, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and business continuity – all essential to enable that our manufacturing operations are running smoothly and to support our ambitious growth plans.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for a strategic thinker and executer who thrives on complexity and enjoys working at the intersection of strategy and execution. You'll bring with you:

• Master’s degree in finance, Project Management, Business Administration or similar field
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience within organizational development, communication, change management, or similar business functions or consultancies
• Strong communication skills with the ability to create clear, compelling reports and presentations that convey complex information to stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership
• Excellent stakeholder relations and networking capabilities – you naturally build and maintain relationships across organizational levels and understand diverse needs and priorities
• Strong analytical skills that allow you to extract insights and meaningful conclusions from complex issues

Working at Novo Nordisk

For over 100 years, we've been driven by one mission: creating lasting change for long-term health. This dedication shapes everything we do – from how we approach complex challenges to how we collaborate across borders and functions. Here, you'll be part of a culture built on mutual respect and shared purpose, where your expertise matters and your contributions directly impact millions of patients globally. We value diverse thinking and encourage bold ideas, knowing that innovation comes from challenging the status quo. When you join us, you're not just taking on a role – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations and continues to transform lives.

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.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 570,200 to 838,100 DKK (DK), corresponding to the level of the position.

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

For further information, please contact Director Rikke Sommer at ORKS@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

23rd of June 2026.

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.