Digital Business Graduate
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Education
Digital Business Graduate: Kick-start your life-changing career!
Are you a master’s student with an interest in digital business? Be a part of Novo Nordisk’s growth journey and accelerate your own. Turn your degree into a global career at one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies!
About the Global Digital Business Graduate Programme
The full-time position as a Global Digital Business Graduate at Novo Nordisk is part of the Digital, Data & IT area of our organization, where we enable and drive digital, data, and IT solutions in collaboration with the entire Novo Nordisk value chain.That means you’ll be able to have a direct impact on the strategic direction of Novo Nordisk and the technology that can change lives for our patients and the way we work.
You'll dive in from day one, bringing your fresh mindset and innovative ideas to a team of passionate and excited colleagues. This graduate programme is your chance to experiment with your skills, passion and motivation and define the next step in your career.You will work with talented colleagues and mentors who will be involved in your personal and professional development.
During your rotations, you will join different parts of Digital, Data & IT to understand how these support our business and, in the end, help millions of patients worldwide. We are the playground where your innovative ideas will thrive and where opportunities for development are just around the corner.Agile teams, R&D labs,business innovation garage and IT infrastructure - we've got it all!
As you embark on your life-changing career in Novo Nordisk, we will provide you with:
- Accelerated personal and professional development from day one
- International professional experience
- Vast exposure and networking possibilities
The position
During the two-year programme, you will undertake challenging and exciting rotations. You will start your journey with a rotation in Denmark, allowing you to get to know our business and develop your digital mindset even further. The second rotation will be outside of Denmark, where you will get the opportunity to take a deep dive into one of our business areas before returning to Denmark again for your third and final rotation.You will work as a full-fledged member of the team and learn skills relevant to your rotation. You will work independently and drive your own responsibilities as well as collaborate with team members on shared projects.
Qualifications
To thrive and succeed as a Global Digital Business Graduate, we expect you to have:
- A relevant master’s degree from 2024 or 2025 within strategy, management, international business, IT, digitalisation, innovation or similar
- International experience either from studies abroad, internships or volunteering
- Relevant work or study experience from internships, student jobs, or extracurricular activities obtained next to your studies
- No more than 1 year of full-time work experience between or after completing a master’s degree
- Courage to experiment and make decisions, a can-do attitude, and an appetite for learning
- Willingness to be part of an international and diverse team culture
- Global mobility and professional fluency in English
If you meet the criteria and are interested in joining the programme with start-up date 1 September 2025, please make sure to submit your application no later than 30 November 2024 GMT+1.
Important: upload this when you apply
Before clicking the apply button, please ensure you have uploaded your CV (please upload under “resume”), cover letter and most recent academic records (upload these two documents as one file under “cover letter”) in English. Applications without these uploads will not be considered.
In the cover letter we expect to learn more about your motivation for wanting to join Novo Nordisk and the Graduate Programme, as well as your personal and professional competencies. Hence, make sure you include:
- What are your expectations from the graduate programme, and how will it support your career aspirations?
- What team characteristics do you value, and what three qualities do you believe others appreciate about you?
- Share a specific example of solving or innovating a digital business-related task or challenge in previous work or projects. Provide details about the problem and your solution
The cover letter must not exceed one page.
You can apply from any device but as you will be asked to answer several questions on the application page, we recommend applying from a PC instead of a mobile phone.
About the Graduate Programme
Our global Graduate Programme is designed to bring together change makers with a diversity of perspectives and equip them with the tools needed to accelerate their personal and professional development. The two-year programme allows you to explore the world while developing your career.You will be taken on three rotations around the globe where you will work in a fast-paced environment and grow in ways you never could have imagined. You will be exposed to the entire Novo Nordisk value chain while being challenged to explore your boundaries and reach your full potential.
If you want a general introduction to the Novo Nordisk Graduate Programme including all 18 tracks then click here.
Contact
For questions about the Digital Business Graduate Programme, please contact our current graduate Mithushan Chandrakumar UMUC@novonordisk.com. You can also click on this link for information on our upcoming graduate webinars.
About Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat.We employ more than 69,000 people in 80 offices around the world, and market our products in 170 countries. We are on a relentless mission to drive change for millions of people living with chronic diseases, and we need people like you to join us on this mission and take Novo Nordisk into the future.
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.