Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

Senior Project Manager / Project Manager

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a growing organisation and be responsible for driving a range of high impact projects? Are you proactive, hands-on, and ready to bring ideas and make them happen? Are you eager to learn about and contribute influence the pharmaceutical value chain? If yes, our (Senior) Project Manager position could be for you – and we welcome you to apply!

About the department

Headquartered in Zurich, International Operations (IO) covers 22 time-zones and has over 14,000 employees around the world working passionately to change over 20 million patients’ lives each day. As a key driver of Novo Nordisk’s growth, and a geographical scope of 7 Regions covering 194 countries, IO offers a dynamic environment and a world of opportunities.

This position is sitting in Clinical, Medical and Regulatory (CMR) within International Operations Strategic Operations (IO-SO), the strategic office for IO, and is reporting to the Head of CMR Strategy & New Therapy Area planning working alongside a passionate team of Project Managers.

The position

As (Senior) Project Manager, you will have a unique opportunity to manage and execute key initiatives for our CMR organisation, which will impact more than 2,000 employees across IO. This visible position will interface the IO CMR SVP, functional leads at a global, regional, and local level and will spar with cross-functional stakeholders at IO-SO level. For this reason, your ability to build successful partnerships with diverse, international stakeholders at all levels will be a key success factor in this position.

There will be breadth and variety in the type of projects and initiatives which you will be responsible to ideate, execute and communicate, including strategy development, organisational change and strengthening our leadership community. Your agility and ability to see the big picture, challenge the status quo and adapt the fast-pace and changing priorities will be critical.

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who holds a master’s degree in Business or a Scientific field and has gained several years’ professional experience working in a cross-functional, international setting.

You have direct experience managing a diverse range of projects and have a passion to communicate them with impact – shifting between strategic and operational topics excite you. You have proven experience delivering business objectives in alignment with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Tight deadlines and changing priorities energise you and you quickly analyse complex situations, synthesise large amounts of information and succinctly articulate your thoughts. You are proactive, organised and a master with MS Office – especially PowerPoint – and are proficient with project management methodologies.

Prior experience in the pharmaceutical industry will be very beneficial for this position, but is not essential if you’re open to a very steep learning curve.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk offers an excellent inclusive culture with a focus on healthy living, flexible working and corporate social responsibility activities. The Novo Nordisk Way includes our vision, our values and our commitment to ensure we are a great place to work and we want you to be a part of that!

At Novo Nordisk we recognise 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 the communities we operate in.

At Novo Nordisk, we aim to hire the best talent and support their development by acting as a Talent Incubator. To ensure the development of our high potential talents at Novo Nordisk, the IO-SO Office in Zurich serves as a Talent Hub which offers employees the opportunity to gain exposure to and experience in the strategic office and establish their international network, before moving on to positions in global, the regions and markets where they can share their expertise and make space for future talents to have an opportunity to experience rotations. For a position like this, international mobility within a time horizon of three years is a requirement.

Contact

If you believe you are qualified, and are willing to take the challenge, please send your motivation letter, CV and relevant documentation directly via our online application tool.

Deadline

Please submit your application via our online application tool by Friday 4th March 2022.

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.