Senior Project Manager - Digital Transformation

About the Department 

The Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance, Insights & Enterprise Solutions works closely across the organization to guide enterprise-wide resource allocations, investment choices, drive core operations and develop insights to drive growth and operational excellence across the value chain while innovating for future capabilities. Our focus on innovation ensures we're constantly building future capabilities. We're responsible for regulating accounting, upholding workplace safety, managing our supply chain and sampling, supporting technological and data innovation, insights and analytics, delivering patient support solutions, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a life-changing career in a global business environment. We encourage our employees to make the most of their talent, and we reward hard work and dedication with opportunities for continuous learning and personal development. Are you ready to maximize your potential with us?

The Position

Converts Information Technology strategy into reality through execution of high priority, complex projects. Uses appropriate tools and techniques to successfully manage projects according to the triple constraints of scope, timeline and budget while fulfilling quality requirements and managing risks. Ensures IT strategy has proper business alignment. Manages and leads project teams, vendors and stakeholders so that stated project objectives, benefits and solution requirements are met.

Relationships

Reports to the Director, IT Project Execution. Partners with internal Information Technology colleagues as well as with Line of Business key stakeholders in the execution of key initiatives. High level of interaction with external vendors.

Essential Functions

• Analyzes & fulfills business needs:
• Engages stakeholders to discuss the effectiveness of solutions and capabilities and their impact on business strategies and procedures
• Leverages in-depth knowledge of business functions, business processes and key objectives to develop solutions aligned with business needs
• Collaborates with business leaders to identify and prioritize projects to ensure the delivery of on time and quality solutions
• Participates in the project portfolio process and IT strategy development

• Develops & executes it strategic plans:
• Collaborates with other functional areas to develop and deploy solutions that impact multiple areas in the organization
• Identifies project opportunities and pursues them from idea to post implementation
• Leverages in-depth knowledge of the business and industry to develop strategies and initiatives consistent with Novo Nordisk, and global and local functional objectives and business needs
• Contributes to the development and maturing of Project and Process services and Information Technology in general

• Manages IT Vendors:
• Manages project plans or service level agreements and budgets to ensure that vendors deliver services within scope, schedule, quality and budget estimates
• Reviews and develops requests for proposals, evaluates and finalizes vendor selection based on costs, qualifications and other pertinent factors based on the project or service delivery and coordinates legal review of finalized contract

Physical Requirements

10-20% overnight travel required.

Qualifications

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.