Area IT process Manager

Are you passionate about shaping robust IT processes that drive compliance, quality, and innovation? Join us as an Area IT Process Manager and play a key role in managing and optimizing IT processes across R&D. In this role, you will influence how we work, collaborate with senior stakeholders, and drive meaningful improvements that support the development of lifechanging medicines.  

Your new role  

As our new Area IT Process Manager, you will be responsible for describing, managing and implementing the Manage IT process across the R&D area, ensuring alignment with corporate process content and organizational standards. You will act as a process ambassador, drive continuous improvement, and work closely with stakeholders at all levels.  

Your key responsibilities include:  

• Chairing the Area IT Process Group (if established) and partnering closely with the Area IT Management Group to ensure coordinated process governance.  

• Driving a high degree of independent work while collaborating with stakeholders across Novo Nordisk to make informed decisions on IT process improvements, ensuring alignment with the IT Process Manager, IT Process Owner and R&D ITQA.  

• Working across organisational interfaces and collaborating at a strategic and professional level with senior management, IT Process Owners, Process ITQAs and other key stakeholders to support seamless execution and continuous improvement.  

• Driving creativity and innovation to enhance methods, techniques and approaches, navigating the organisation effectively, diagnosing complex issues and proposing clear, simple and pragmatic solutions.  

• Leading effective change management across diverse stakeholder groups to ensure that process improvements are understood, adopted and embedded across the organisation.  

• Being Content Responsible or reviewer for Unit content applied across the area, ensuring consistency and compliance.  
• Representing the area in the Corporate IT Process Group when relevant, aligning local and corporate processes. 
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Your new department 

You will be joining AI & Digital Innovation (ADI), the organisation driving the integration of AI, digital science and data across R&D to accelerate development, improve precision and strengthen scientific decision making. ADI leads digital innovation and advances computational methods that speed up the pipeline and elevate the quality of our research. 

Within ADI, you will be part of the IT Compliance & Validation team of approximately ten compliance and validation specialists supporting critical IT implementations across the R&D area. The team works as independent professionals with a strong culture of knowledge sharing, collaboration and open communication. Together, you will drive quality and compliance while contributing to digital transformation across Novo Nordisk. 

Your skills and qualifications 

To succeed in this role, you must bring: 

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, engineering or a related field.  

• Several years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry and QMS/GxP/ISO frameworks.  

• Extensive knowledge of Quality Management Systems and relevant regulations (GAMP 5, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EU Annex 11).  

• Experience creating user friendly processes that balance business needs, GxP compliance and IT integration.  

• A proven ability to drive continuous process improvements, along with strong planning, coordination and stakeholder management skills.  

• Strong communication skills—both written and verbal—and experience teaching, coaching and guiding stakeholders.  

• Fluency in English.  

Additionally, you are proactive, analytical and detail oriented. You bring a strong sense of ownership and work independently while still driving progress forward. You enjoy collaborating with others and value knowledge sharing, contributing to a positive and supportive team environment. You also take a structured yet innovative approach to improving processes. You communicate complex topics with clarity, build strong relationships across functions, and are motivated by simplifying ways of working and contributing to high quality, compliant IT solutions. 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations. 

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. 

Contact 

For further information about the position, please contact Morten Viggo Larsen, Associate Director, IT Compliance and Validation, at mvla@novonordisk.com. 

Application deadline 

13 April 2026 

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you 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'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.