(Senior) Business Partner - temporary position (12 months)

Are you passionate about numbers and driven by impact? And do you want to play a key role in shaping clinical trial resource planning that helps deliver better lives for patients worldwide? Then you might be the person we are looking for.

Join our Trial Resource Management department and help us strengthen clinical trial costing and capacity planning in Novo Nordisk.

Your new role

As a (Senior) Business Partner in the Trial Resource Management team, your key responsibilities will be:

• Partnering with the project teams to create cost estimates for our clinical trials globally.

• Perform analyses of costs, resources, and timelines to enable informed portfolio and project decision-making.
• Drive improvements in processes and strengthen governance model ensuring both cost accuracy as well as overall cost development across portfolio of trials and countries involved.
• Ensure strong collaboration across key stakeholders including project teams and Corporate Finance.

This is a temporary position for 12 months.

Your new department       

You’ll be part of Trial Resource Management, a 10 person team in Global Trial Portfolio within the R&D organisation. We help optimize clinical trial costs and capacity by engaging with cross-functional stakeholders and transforming insights from data into implementable decisions.

Your skills & qualifications

We're seeking candidates who fulfil the following prerequisites:

• You hold a bachelor’s degree or a master’s degree in business administration, finance, economics or equivalent.
• You have minimum 5 years of relevant experience from a similar position or experience in business analysis of clinical development.
• You have a solid understanding of numbers within the field of business analysis
• It is an advantage if you have experience from the pharmaceutical industry, particularly within clinical development.
• You demonstrate expertise in managing complex projects across stakeholders.
• Fluent in written and verbal English.

As a person you are a team player and you are good at communication, presentation, negotiation and influential skills. You have good project management skills and the ability to inspire and motivate stakeholders. You have a structured overview of tasks and strong analytical capabilities, and you work independently and receives minimal guidance. You are able and willing to adjust quickly to new situations in a continuously developing environment.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with an unconventional spirit, a rare determination and a constant curiosity. For over 100 years, this unordinary mindset has seen us build a company unlike any other. One where a collective passion for our purpose, mutual respect and a willingness to go beyond what we know delivers extraordinary results.

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.

More information

If you have additional questions about the position before applying, please contact Matteo Dal Pos, Associate Director, on mdlp@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

The 4th of January 2026

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

Novo Nordisk is currently in the process of adjusting job titles globally. Please note that the job title listed in this advertisement may be subject to change. More detailed information will be provided during the recruitment process.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.