Associate Director - Novo Nordisk United States Consulting

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Plainsboro, NJ
Senior level
Healthtech • Software • Pharmaceutical
Join us as we drive change to combat serious chronic diseases.
The Role
The Associate Director will manage large-scale consulting projects, drive discussions, prepare project plans, mentor team members, and support strategy development at Novo Nordisk.
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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)/U.S. Operations and 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 Associate Director of NN US 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 & BD strategies. Projects can range across the full value chain in support of the top business priorities.
Relationships
Reports to the NN US Consulting Director.
Key stakeholders include: NN US & BD Executive and Leadership Teams, Executive office team, Enterprise Strategy team and Functional stakeholders (US and Global).
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
  • 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 required.
Qualifications

  • A Bachelor's degree is required
  • 8+ 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.

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The Company
HQ: Bagsværd
69,000 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 1923

What We Do

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered in Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases such as obesity and rare blood and endocrine disorders. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure disease.

We are powered by technology. Our Global Research Technologies, Medical Devices as a software, and Data Science teams are on the cutting edge of developing and supporting our life-saving medications.

Why Work With Us

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.

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