Novo Nordisk

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 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 Director of US Operations 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 Operations strategies. Projects can range across the full value chain in support of the top business priorities.

Relationships

Reports to the US Operations Consulting, Senior Director.

Key stakeholders include: NN US Operations Executive and Leadership Teams, Executive office team, Enterprise Strategy team, Functional stakeholders (US and Global) & Direct Reports.

Essential Functions

• Leads and successfully delivers large-scale and highly complex projects (high value and visibility, challenging issues, wide range of stakeholders)
• Splits focus leading multiple projects – serving as the primary lead of 2 or more projects at a time, and supports other project(s) as a sparring partner / workstream owner
• Drives discussions around problem-solving, with strong identification, structuring, and prioritization of issues
• Prepares storylines for documents and excels at structured communication
• Assumes full project management responsibility for large-scale projects with highly complex projects, including proactive issue escalation and resolution
• Ensures the quality of team outputs, including accuracy, clarity, and messaging
• Prepares project plans and scopes, with clear objectives, timeline and milestones, stakeholder identification, responsibilities
• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior management
• Provides expertise across the value chain and of consulting approaches/frameworks
• Manages, coaches and mentors junior team members (both in projects and outside of project settings)
• Supports the Executive Office and Consulting Leadership Team to help set the team strategy and operational planning
• Leads team capability building initiatives outside of project delivery
• Flexible in terms of working under tight deadlines and ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
• Attracts external management consulting talents through active participation in recruitment activities

Physical Requirements

0-10% overnight travel is required.

Development Of People

Supervisory. Ensure that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process. Ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility. Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree is required
• 10+ years of relevant experience. A Master’s and/or advanced degree, preferably an MBA, can be substituted for up to 2 years of experience when appropriate
• 4-6 years proven project management and/or consulting experience
• Prior experience from tier 1 life science consultancies is highly beneficial but not a prerequisite
• Understanding of general biopharma value chain and business processes (marketing, access, development, supply chain, etc.)
• 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 project management skills to drive projects to completion
• 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)

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.