Senior Business Partner

Do you want to drive change and sustain a value driven Data Science organisation? Are you looking for a position in which you will support setting direction, and drive value generation and prioritisation? If so, then you could be our new (Senior) Business Partner. Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The position
As (Senior) Business Partner you will be responsible for driving, facilitating, and developing true value creation for the Data Science organisation to unlock our business aspirations and ensure appropriate resource allocation and prioritisation.

Your responsibilities include:

• Drive operational excellence across Data Science and provide recommendations on where and how to invest in the area.
• Drive business cases for new investments and get support from senior stakeholders.
• Drive value realisation of digital and business investments.
• Support and drive ongoing activities on the strategic agenda in Data Science.
• Be part of the culture in the team, characterized by curiosity, passion, fun, openness, and psychological safety.

The primariy location of the position will be in Søborg, Denmark.

Qualifications

To be a successful (Senior) Business Partner, you have:

• A master's degree within Business, Economics, or Science, and at least 3-5 years of full-time work experience.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a curiosity to understand and dive into problems systematically while focusing on the overall purpose.
• The ability to work independently and communicate your ideas, conclusions, and suggested way forward with passion on several levels of the organisation.
• To support operational excellence and build strong business cases, you will work with colleagues across the organisation and often of more senior character, so a flair for stakeholder management is a must.
• Experience from consulting, pharmaceutical industry or technology is an advantage.
• An open mind to take on tasks of varying nature and help scoping them, an open mind to learn, listen to others’ ideas, and a passion for digitalisation is an advantage.

About The Department
In Novo Nordisk, our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases by providing the best sustainable solutions and products. To identify the right solutions for tomorrow, we need to digitalize the way we do development.

Data Science is an area within Development, responsible for managing clinical drug development worldwide, from early development phases to product introduction and life cycle management. In Data Science our focus is to deliver data and data insights through advanced analytics to support new drug submission. We provide insights to fact-based decisions on new drugs and indications for Novo Nordisk product portfolio, which make a difference for the patients.

In Data Science Strategic Projects, we coordinate the strategy and deliver on the strategic projects in the Data Science organisation. We’re part delivering on the Data Science strategy, and we drive and oversee implementation. We collaborate and liaise intensively with other areas both within Development and across Novo Nordisk.

We are a newly established small unit of highly engaged individuals. We have fun at work and collaborate with skilled colleagues in delivering tangible results.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we use our skills, dedication and ambition to help people with diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. We offer the chance to be part of a truly global workplace, where passion and engagement are met with opportunities for professional and personal development.

Contact details

Christoffer Refsgaard, Senior Business Partner, Data Science, mobile +45 34484160, or Christian Sørensen, Head of Strategic Projects, QCSO@novonordisk.com.

Deadline
May 13th 2024.  We are performing on-going screening of candidates so upload your CV today.

There is no requirement to append a cover letter with your application. However, we would appreciate if you could incorporate a brief statement in your resume or CV detailing your motivation for applying. In the interest of promoting an efficient and equitable recruitment process, we kindly request you to exclude any photographs from your CV.

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.