Senior Manager - Novo Nordisk United States Consulting

About the Department

The Strategy & Executive Office (SEO) drives the long-term strategic direction of Novo Nordisk Inc.  The Strategy & Executive Office is responsible for setting the strategic direction for NNI and drive pull through of that strategy by partnering with senior leaders across the value chain.” (NNI)/U.S. Operations and leads all US commercial efforts for Novo Nordisk.  The SEO team collaborates and partners with groups across U.S Operations, Research & Early Development, Development, innovation hubs across NN, other affiliates, and global. We’re looking for individuals who are enterprise thinkers, inclusive leaders, and strong collaborators, as we embark on shaping our future.

The Position

The Senior Manager of NN US Consulting will be an integral member of our consulting team, spending time focused on providing services in areas such as the following: business transformation, commercial operations, commercial strategy, market access, growth strategy, operating model optimization, technology implementation and enterprise transformation. The role will deliver high impact, enterprise projects that activate and accelerate the US & BD strategies. Projects can range across the full value chain in support of the top business priorities.

Relationships

Reports to NN US Consulting Director.

Key stakeholders include: NN US & BD Executive and Leadership Teams, Executive Office team, Enterprise Strategy team and Functional stakeholders (US and Global).

Essential Functions

• Leads and successfully delivers consulting projects with a wide range of stakeholders
• Assumes project management responsibility for consulting projects, including proactive issue escalation and resolution
• Prepares project plans and scopes with clear objectives, timeline, milestones, stakeholder identification, responsibilities
• Ensures the quality of team outputs, including accuracy, clarity, and messaging
• Drives discussions around problem-solving, with strong identification, structuring, and prioritization of issues
• Prepares storylines for documents and excels at structured communication
• Serves as a trusted advisor to functional leaders
• Demonstrates understanding across the value chain and of consulting approaches/frameworks
• Attracts external management consulting talents through active participation in recruitment activities
• Coaches and mentors junior team members (both in projects and outside of project settings)
• Leads team capability building initiatives outside of project delivery

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor's in commercial, economic, scientific, engineering or a related field is required
• 6+ years of professional relevant experience. Master’s and/or advanced degree preferably MBA can be substituted for up to 2 years of required work experience when appropriate
• 2-4 years of proven project and/or consulting experience
• Prior experience in tier 1 consultancies is beneficial but not a prerequisite
• Prior experience with biopharma companies is beneficial
• Experience working with consulting and financial frameworks and approaches
• Experience and comfort working with top executives, with strong executive presence
• Structured top-down written and oral communication, presentation skills
• Strong analytical and visualization skills
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills
• Proficient in using PC tools (PowerPoint and Excel) is required
• Strong language skills in English (written and orally)
• Flexible in terms of working under tight deadlines and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment

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.

If you are interested in applying to Novo Nordisk and need special assistance or an accommodation to apply, please call us at 1-855-411-5290. This contact is for accommodation requests only and cannot be used to inquire about the status of applications.