IT Project and Engagement Manager

Are you passionate about leading stakeholders towards realising the benefits of technology and do you want to drive projects that helps prepare our IT and organisational landscape for a digital future?

Then join our Corporate IT team as our new IT Project and Engagement Manager and help us identify, analyse, plan, and execute initiatives that supports best in class IT services and solutions.

The position

As our new IT Project and Engagement Manager you will get a unique opportunity to work with stakeholders in a complex organisational landscape representing a variety of different companies and business needs as Corporate IT provides IT services and solutions to the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Novo Holdings, and its subsidiaries with a total of +500 global employees.

But most importantly, you will excel in ensuring that our organisations gain value and benefits from existing and new IT technologies.

You will become part of a team of 18 IT professionals working closely together to ensure that IT is continuously supporting business needs and strategic goals in a dynamic and fast-paced environment of growing organisations. This is done in close collaboration with key stakeholders across the organisations and with multiple technology vendors.

The role

You will be referring to and aligning priorities with our Senior IT Project Lead. However, you will be responsible for your own projects and change management activities, where you will manage all aspects from scoping and defining deliverables to overseeing and reporting on progress, outcome, adoption, and handover to operations.

• Drive initiatives with stakeholders across the organisations to uncover opportunities and address pain points within the IT and digitalisation landscape
• Facilitate mapping, analysis, design, and automation of processes
• Prepare and present project proposals and business cases for management decisions, ensuring clarity and alignment with organisational goals
• Manage all aspects of project work including scope, plan, business impact, budget, risks, and benefit realisation
• Drive organisational change management including stakeholder engagement, communication, training etc. to ensure adoption of existing and new digital tools and ways of working
• Contribute to standardisation and optimisation of IT services and processes across Novo Nordisk Foundation, Novo Holdings, and its subsidiaries to support organisational scalability
• Manage external IT consultants and vendors to support project execution

Your work is expected to be carried out within normal working hours and from the Headquarter of Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo Holdings in Tuborg Havn to the extent possible. However, remote work is possible given prior notice. Global projects may require flexible working hours and may include limited international travel for direct engagement and project oversight.

Professional Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with a relevant master’s degree and experience from a similar position. Moreover, to succeed in this role we imagine that you:

• Have at least 3 years of experience as project manager from management consulting or an internal IT and business development function
• Have stakeholder and change management experience such as development of communication and training initiatives to support adoption
• Can communicate complex matters in a simple and understandable way including presenting to a crowd at town halls and training sessions
• Are well versed in the Microsoft O365 package and familiar with various business productivity tools
• Are confident in managing multiple and diverse projects concurrently
• Are fluent in Danish and English (written and verbally)

Personal Qualifications

We are looking for a team member who is self-motivated and enjoys working independently as well as in teams. You are confident at stakeholder management and recognise the following:

• Curious, open-minded, and embraces new challenges, opportunities and changing priorities
• Interested in feedback and takes steps to learn and improve
• Structured and result-oriented work approach
• Reliable and responsible, and deliver high-quality work
• Respectful, collaborative and have a team centric mindset

For further information, please contact Marietta Bak Hansen, Senior IT project Lead, mbh@novo.dk.

We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than 9 March 2025.

To apply, please send your CV and cover by clicking the “Apply now” button.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Established in Denmark in 1924, the Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives. The vision of the Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. The Foundation’s mission is to progress research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases as well as to advance knowledge and solutions to support a green transformation of society.

In the coming years, the Foundation will broaden its scope and increase its grants for scientific, humanitarian, and social purposes, including solving the climate crisis and developing tomorrow’s food production. As a consequence, we are a growing organisation, which means new job openings and exciting opportunities for employees to be part of forming the future of the Foundation.