Senior Manager - Strategic Partnerships, Consumer & Patient Engagement

About the Department 

The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations 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, maintaining our facilities and assuring the integrity and completeness of all business transactions. At Novo Nordisk, you will have the opportunity to build a 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

The Senior Manager - Strategic Partnerships, Consumer & Patient Engagement plays a critical role identifying, structuring, and scaling high-impact partnerships to advance Novo Nordisk's digital innovation and consumer engagement strategy. This role sits at the intersection of business development, digital health, and consumer experience, owning key partnerships end-to-end, and flexing both analytical and creative thinking to connect strategic priorities with external opportunities. This role operates with great autonomy and strategic responsibility, leading partnership development and shaping opportunity areas, while driving measurable business and patient impact.

About the department: The Finance & Operations department brings insights and intelligence to inform decision making & drives digitalization and business solutions to attain NNI goals. Finance & Operations 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.

Relationships

The role will have to work across the enterprise and provide a holistic perspective to enterprise digital transformation and opportunities for driving integration across the healthcare ecosystem. Primary internal stakeholders include senior leaders from Marketing/Commercial, MAPA, legal & compliance, and IT in addition to external ecosystem players.

Essential Functions

• Partnership sourcing & opportunity development:
  • Collaborate with the business units to identify their business priorities and needs
  • Proactively identify and evaluate new partnership opportunities across digital health, consumer plat-forms, and healthcare ecosystems
  • Translate business needs into partnership theses and opportunity areas
  • Conduct market scans and landscape assessments to identify high-potential partners
  • Develop clear value propositions and strategic rationale for partnerships
  • Attend and represent Novo Nordisk in tech and health tech events and conferences
• Deal structuring & execution:
  • Lead end-to-end partnership execution, including: initial outreach and partner engagement, opportunity shaping and solution design, commercial structuring and negotiation, contracting in partner-ship with legal/compliance
  • Build business cases, success metrics, and financial models
  • Ensure partnership are structured for scalability and long-term value
• Partnership Management & growth:
  • Serve as primary relationship owner for key external partners
  • Drive ongoing performance, optimization, and expansion of partnerships
  • Identify opportunities to scale, extend, or evolve partnerships over time
  • Ensure alignment between partner activities and internal business priorities
• Cross-functional leadership:
  • Lead cross-functional teams across marketing, medical, digital & IT, legal, and market access
  • Align stakeholders around partnership goals, timelines, and success metrics
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