General Administration Professional

Are you a highly organised individual with a passion for administrative tasks? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can support various functions and stakeholders? If so, we invite you to join our Business Support team at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
Novo Nordisk has been globally recognized as the Best Place to Work, topping the ranks for two consecutive years in 2022 and 2023. It is an exciting time to join Novo Nordisk and be part of a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, helping us achieve our aspirations to establish a global presence in the industry.

About the department
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, hemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 64,000 people in 80 countries, and markets our products in more than 170 countries.
The Business Support department at Novo Nordisk is accountable for coordinating, integrating, and administering a range of diverse administrative or staff functions. Our team delivers administrative and related support services to the organization, manages reception, organizes travel, and ensures the smooth execution of cross-functional projects and tasks. We are based in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where collaboration and knowledge sharing are key to our success. Join us in Koriyama, Fukushima and be part of a team that makes a difference.

The position
As a General Administration Professional at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Manage and coordinate calendars for managers and team members.
• Organize travel arrangements, including flight bookings, accommodations, and transportation.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration across different departments.
• Assist in onboarding new hires, including setting up workstations and providing necessary resources.
• Plan, facilitate, and execute site events and visits to align with organizational objectives, provide administrative support, act as a proxy/delegate for managers in relevant IT systems, collaborate on budget, investment, and HR annual processes, develop internal communication policies and guidelines, and create visual content for internal and local use in collaboration with external vendors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, management, or a related field.
• Proficiency in calendar management, travel organisation, and event coordination.
• Familiarity with IT systems and SharePoint management.
• Skilled in visual management and creative communication design.
• Business level of Japanese and English.

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 energize 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.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
Until the completion of recruitment.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.
 

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