Associate Director - Strategic Execution

About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

The Associate Director, Strategic Advisor role is responsible for assisting the VP of Enterprise Data & Advanced Analytics (ED&AA) in developing, communicating, and executing ED&AA cross-functional initiatives. The position serves as a strategic advisor and implementer for the VP and ED&AA leadership team, in planning and coordinating prioritized operational, financial, and administrative activities. The role will be central in developing and driving a department roadmap for ED&AA to enhance and optimize how the department engages with the organization and creates value for NNI. The role will help to bridge the NNI ED&AA organization with the Enterprise Insights organization, through both systematic and informal means. This role provides oversight to the annual team planning processes to ensure the effective integration of strategies into operations. In addition, the role is responsible for proactively driving and creating presentations for senior stakeholder audiences (ED&AA LT, FIES LT, ET, and Enterprise Insights LT) and other relevant presentations for the VP of ED&AA.

Relationships

The Associate Director interacts regularly with the ED&AA LT, Enterprise Insights LT, chiefs of staff across the business, and other key stakeholders. Other relationships include Commercial Operations, Commercial Insight & Analytics, PCOR, NBS, Enterprise Insights and HR. External relationships include consulting partners, technology, and implementation partners.

Essential Functions

• Serve as chief of staff for the ED&AA organization within NNI. Responsible for facilitating ED&AA department meetings, including weekly standups, LT meetings, extended leadership team meetings, and Town Halls
• Establish strategic partnership with Enterprise Insights and other NNI and Global data and analytics organizations, with the intent to build interconnectivity and unified insights across NNI
• Oversee the building of the ED&AA departmental development strategy on an annual basis.  Determine gaps and opportunities within the department and engage internal and external partners to create a curriculum for growth
• Lead the creation and coordination of executive level presentations across all of ED&AA, including but not limited to: ET, DDI COM, and SLT as priority engagements. Includes facilitation in front of senior leaders as appropriate
• Lead the functional resource planning process across ED&AA on an annual basis. Partner with finance and across all ED&AA teams to create the plan, overseeing significant budget and resources
• As needed, project manage significant cross functional ED&AA initiatives including but not limited to the annual promotions cycle. Lead and support ED&AA initiatives and special projects
• Project manage / support significant ED&AA initiatives and special projects as needed
• Act as ED&AA representative to the chief of staff working group across FIES
• Establish strategic business partner relationships with key stakeholders
• Develop innovative solutions to unstructured, complex problems; recommendations have significant impact on company (time, people, budget) resources
• Leadership and development:
  • Champion the Triple Bottom Line in business analytics and internal strategy consulting
  • Demonstrate creative simple approaches toward solving complex problems
  • Coach or train junior level staff on analytical approaches, techniques, synthesized storytelling presentation development, business issue identification and methods for addressing, etc.
  • Pro-actively seek process improvement opportunities by challenging existing processes, proposing solutions, and driving approved implementation plan
  • Strive to develop and deploy innovative approaches and maintain awareness of 'best practices' across industries by maintaining a current familiarity with analytics and field business assessments

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

This is a hybrid role, requiring 3 days per week onsite in Plainsboro, NJ.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution is required
• 8+ years relevant experience
• Pharma / Life Sciences experience preferred
• Experience operating in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on delivering high quality and innovative data and advanced analytics solutions
• Strong communication abilities, able to synthesize complex ideas and data into clear and effective message/presentations
• Experience interacting with and influencing senior level leadership within an organization
• Experience as a Project Leader responsible for complex project where input and alignment are needed across multiple stakeholders including VP level or above
• Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably
• Excellent administrative, organizational, project management and analytical skills
• Experience managing project budgets and resources
• Customer focused with excellent communication skills and ability to work with all levels within organization
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects simultaneously

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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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