Job Description

Interested in a career that matters?

Would you like to ensure that AI investments translate into measurable commercial value and solutions that become part of everyday work?

At Novonesis, we believe biology holds the key to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges. To unlock that potential, we are strengthening the AI capabilities that help our account managers, marketing colleagues, and customer service teams work smarter, serve customers better, and create meaningful business impact.

As our AI Portfolio Lead, you will shape and manage our commercial AI portfolio, helping us invest in the opportunities with the greatest potential. You will connect commercial priorities, technology, and adoption to ensure that AI solutions deliver value across our global organization.

The role & your impact

You will join the Sales Excellence team and become part of our commercial AI hub. Working in a hub-and-spoke model, you will collaborate closely with AI Transformation Leads, Business Areas, Commercial Platforms, and IT.

You will lead the stages where ideas enter the roadmap and where solutions are launched, adopted, evaluated, and improved. You will judge success by business outcomes, active use, and value creation, rather than by the number of solutions launched.

Your impact will be visible in a focused portfolio of high-value use cases, clear success measures for every live product, growing adoption across the commercial organization, and trusted portfolio reporting that supports leadership decisions.

Your key responsibilities in this role

• Own and maintain the commercial AI portfolio, including the product catalogue, opportunity pipeline, and backlog, creating transparency around what exists, what is coming, and why.
• Lead the Core Commercial AI community, setting a clear direction and supporting alignment and followership across the Business Units.
• Lead idea triage and prioritize use cases according to their potential impact on revenue, productivity, and customer experience.
• Make clear portfolio recommendations and decisions, including whether solutions should proceed after testing and piloting, and whether they should be scaled, improved, or retired.
• Own the value-tracking framework by establishing success measures with the Business Areas and reporting portfolio progress and outcomes to leadership.
• Own the adoption framework for launches, training, communication, and ongoing adoption, ensuring that solutions become embedded in daily commercial work.
• Allocate capacity across the portfolio and align priorities with AI Transformation Leads, Commercial Platforms, and IT.

What you’ll need to be successful in this role

We are looking for someone with a strong combination of commercial understanding, AI literacy, product or portfolio management experience, and the ability to turn strategy into adopted ways of working.

To succeed in the role, you will need:

• Hands-on understanding of AI and generative AI solutions, including agents, copilots, and workflow automation.
• The technical literacy to discuss feasibility, effort, dependencies, and risk with technical teams.
• A strong commercial background and an understanding of how account management, marketing, or customer service operates in a B2B environment.
• Experience in product or portfolio management involving digital, AI, or commercial technology solutions, including backlog ownership and prioritization.
• Experience building business cases, defining KPIs, tracking value, and using adoption and performance data to support decisions.
• Experience leading adoption and change initiatives, including launches, training programs, and champion or ambassador networks.
• The ability to make clear priority decisions when capacity is limited or evidence is incomplete, communicate the trade-offs, and maintain direction with stakeholders.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience working across business functions, technology teams, and leadership in a global matrix organization.
• Strong communication skills and professional fluency in English.
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, economics, engineering, IT, or another relevant field.

You are value-driven and evaluate success through business outcomes. You stay close to the business, understand the daily work of commercial teams, and follow solutions beyond launch until they are adopted and delivering value.

You are also decisive and comfortable explaining priorities and trade-offs. At the same time, you build strong relationships and bring stakeholders together around shared goals.

Additional skills & interests we value

It would be an advantage if you have:

• Experience with agile or product management methods, for example as a certified Product Owner.
• Familiarity with Salesforce, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Copilot Studio, or Power Platform.
• Knowledge of responsible AI, data governance, and enterprise AI guardrails.
• Experience from an international B2B organization, ideally within sales, marketing, or customer service.

What we offer you

In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape how AI changes the way a global commercial organization works. You will join a purpose-driven workplace focused on bettering our world with biology and take on a visible role where your decisions influence AI investments and commercial ways of working.

You will work in an international and collaborative environment, building strong connections across Business Areas, commercial functions, and technology teams. Along the way, you will have opportunities to grow professionally through challenging assignments, ongoing feedback, and collaboration with experienced colleagues, all within a culture guided by Explore, Impact, Ownership, and Care.

Relevant information

Application deadline: 18 November 2026

Location: Lyngby

Contact information:

If you have questions about the position, please contact Søren Guldhammer Bennike, Sales Excellence Director – SGBU@novonesis.com

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

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If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career