Job Description

Senior Strategy Partner, Global Manufacturing & Supply

Kalundborg, Denmark

Shape the strategic direction of one of Novo Nordisk's largest production areas, where your insights will influence decisions that ultimately reach millions of patients. If you thrive on complexity, enjoy challenging senior leaders, and want to see the impact of your strategic thinking at scale – this is your opportunity.

Your new role

As Senior Strategy Partner in the Global Manufacturing Supply (GMS) API Executive Office, you will own key strategic processes, act as a trusted sparring partner to senior leadership, and help shape the foundation for decision-making across GMS API. A central part of the role is to translate strategic priorities into clear deployment plans, meaningful targets and follow-up mechanisms that ensure progress and accountability across the organisation. You will work closely with the API leadership team and individual VPs – facilitating dialogue, challenging assumptions and ensuring clear communication across the organisation.

Day-to-day, your responsibilities will include:

• Being responsible for the API Manufacturing strategy from design to deployment including optimizing for engagement and follow-through
• Strengthening the Strategy Partner network across GMS API to foster collaboration, knowledge sharing and strategic capabilities
• Owning and continuously optimising key strategic processes at API Manufacturing level ensuring strong stakeholder engagement and timely, high-quality output
• Work on strategic important topics will also require you to establish a network broad in the organization – fast gaining insights and translating to storylines.  
• Acting as SVP Risk Coordinator and driving the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) process across API – from risk identification through to a consolidated API risk profile
• Leading or supporting business-critical assignments in the Executive Office, including analyses, presentations, workshops and follow-up on actions
• Providing strategic sparring to senior leaders and individual VPs – challenging perspectives, surfacing risks and bringing new thinking from outside Novo Nordisk
• Developing presentations and communication tailored to audiences ranging from employees to senior leadership, always with focus on key messages and context

Your new department

In Global Manufacturing & Supply, we cover the full value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo Nordisk products. We are more than 30,000 colleagues across the globe with the shared responsibility of scaling molecules, processes, devices, and products, dedicated to supplying life-saving medicines to the patients who need them most.

The API Manufacturing Executive Office supports the Senior Vice President of API Manufacturing and the API Leadership Team. As a small, agile team, we own and facilitate strategic processes, drive organizational initiatives, and provide critical support and scoping to solve complex business challenges. Our work spans strategic deployment, risk management, stakeholder engagement, and business continuity – all essential to enable that our manufacturing operations are running smoothly and to support our ambitious growth plans.

Your skills & qualifications

We are looking for an experienced strategic thinker who is energised by complexity, comfortable challenging senior stakeholders and motivated by seeing structure and clarity emerge from ambiguity. To succeed in this role, you bring:

• A Master's degree within Finance, Project Management, Business Administration or a similar field
• 5-7 years of relevant experience from organisational development, strategy, communication, change management, business functions or top-tier consultancies
• Strong communication skills, with a proven ability to create clear, compelling presentations and convey complex information to senior leaders
• Excellent stakeholder management and network-building capabilities across organisational levels
• Experience within strategy development, deployment, target setting or performance follow-up, with the ability to connect strategic ambitions to practical execution, is an advantage
• Sharp analytical skills, allowing you to extract insights and meaningful conclusions from complex issues
• Curiosity and daily usage of AI tools is an advantage
• Fluency in written and spoken English; Danish is an advantage

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

What we offer

There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 DKK (DK), corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here.

Contact

For further information, please contact Director Rikke Sommer at ORKS@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

18 September 2026. We look forward to receving your application.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.