Portfolio Strategy Manager/Director

Would you like to apply your skills and experience to define the best portfolio of digital and physical delivery solutions that will improve the lives of millions of people around the world? Then this is your moment. Portfolio Strategy & Management in Device and Delivery Solutions (DDS) is looking for two new colleagues and offers the opportunity to make this picture come true.

Together we can make it happen. Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position

As Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager/Director, you will play a key role enabling value- and risk-based decisions based on insights, leveraging collaboration across the organization.

In this position, you will be expected to proactively shape recommendations and scenarios for the direction of our portfolio of delivery solutions, maximizing the value of Novo Nordisk products in early- and late-stage pipeline. Also, you will be responsible to secure information flow, guidance, and recommendations, enabling the organization to maximize the use of resources and investments.

The job will give you a solid knowledge the value chain and Novo Nordisk organization as it requires a strong focus on stakeholder management across functions and organisational levels, including senior level management.

Your key responsibilities will include but not be limited to:

• Orchestrate portfolio of delivery solutions balancing risk, investment level and value

• Define roadmaps for how we realize value of our portfolio of delivery solutions

• Continuously assessment scenarios and recommendations on allocation of resources and investment level

• Facilitate decisions on trade-off business scenarios

• Deploy and maintain tools and process for excellence in portfolio management

Furthermore, you will be responsible for data gathering, analysis and reporting and engaging product development teams in early-stage pipeline.

As Senior Portfolio Strategy Manager / Director you will report to the Head of DDS Portfolio Strategy & Management and will be a role model to the team.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate:

• Possess a solid track-record in portfolio strategy with experience in portfolio management frameworks, process, and tools

• Experience from a relevant strategy consultancy developing different business models combined with jobs in various areas of the value-chain in pharma/MedTech industry are strong assets but not mandatory.

We encourage candidates with a variety of backgrounds to apply, but you are required to have a relevant high-level education.

As a person, you are ambitious, embrace changes and you are politically savvy, enabling you to build trusting relationships across organisational levels and influence the organization leveraging on your informal leadership skills.

You have strong business acumen and can speak technical and business. You are sharp to interact with senior level (spoken & written) and you are recognised as a strong collaborator and facilitator.

You have strategic mindset and are quick to link and navigate across strategy to operations. You translate trends and insights into scenarios and recommendations. You are data and digitally savvy.

About the department

The Portfolio Strategy & Management is a team of 5 talented colleagues, part of DDS Strategic Development, a central function in the DDS SVP area (350+ FTEs). As part of Strategic Development, we leverage a strong link to the external landscape to drive strategic development of the DDS organisation to effectively build and progress a leading pipeline of delivery solutions. We drive strategy development and drive and facilitate execution through a combination of strategic resource allocation, portfolio strategy and management.

Our main goal is enabling decision making through data and insights into internal and external trends and opportunities. We set direction and ambition levels for the DDS portfolio. We provide tools and transparency on status and progress to inform decision making to maximise value, striving to do business in a financially, environmentally, and socially responsible way.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact Eduardo Setti on +45 3448 0143

Deadline

31 December 2022.

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis.

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.

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.

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