Senior F&O Strategic Project Manager

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

Be a part of Novo Nordisk Inc's high performing in-house consultancy, which is operationalizing NNI's strategy through project excellence. This role is the dedicated consulting business partner to the executive area Finance & Operations (F&O). The right person will need to build a strong relationship with key stakeholders across F&O, USO and the global organization. At any time, they will lead one or more high complexity projects within F&O. It is paramount to be able to remain nimble while driving key projects successfully, and providing the support needed to ensure F&O meets their strategic objectives.

Relationships

Reports to the head of USO CFO Strategy & Execution. Key stakeholders include: SVP, Finance & Operations, Finance & Operations Executive Support network and Finance & Operations Leadership Team.

Essential Functions

• Organizational:
  • Ability to successfully navigate and build relationships with senior level stakeholders
  • Be a trusted consulting type function to the F&O SVP and F&O Leadership Team
  • Represent and develop NNI brand, especially with F&O SVP and within F&O
• Department tasks:
  • Part of USO CFO Executive Office, with responsibility for driving department vision, engagement activities, and strategic projects
  • Supports the execution of Finance and Operations strategy/business plan development and implementation key business initiatives/strategic priorities
  • Assesses project opportunities and manages project pipeline within F&O
  • Supports project team in preparing project proposals and engagement letters
  • Drives and contributes to the agenda and content of department meetings and other internal Novo Nordisk wide activities

• Projects:
  • Owns the relationship with Finance & Operations, proactively identifying, scoping, and driving key projects.  Synthesizes F&O content and deliverables into executive-level format
  • Ability to independently lead multiple projects concurrently and produce high-level deliverables in PowerPoint format
  • Assumes full project delivery responsibility for large-scale F&O projects with high complexity
  • Takes full project ownership and successfully manages complex projects in terms of time and issue handling even when the project does not run as originally intended
  • Becomes a trusted advisor to Manager; helping to identify the root cause of the issue and providing actionable recommendations to solve them
  • Independently prepares project plans with clear milestones, delegates responsibilities and meets commitments
  • Drives discussions around a strong problem-solving logic to ensure that the project can be solved most effectively
  • Prepares storyline using conscious application of structured communication approaches (e.g.top-down vs. bottom-up)
  • Ensures that the team always produces well-structured and well-argued end-products with clear and precise messages
  • Structured top-down written and oral communication
  • Independently drives anchoring of solution with key stakeholders
• Other areas of responsibility: