Agile Coach

Do you have a growth mindset and always focus on improving ways of working, enhancing value creation, efficiency, and cross functional collaboration? Do you believe agile coaching is more about servant leadership and developing teams and leaders, scale agile where needed, rather than running processes and events by the book? Would you like to be part of our agile transformation and unlock potential opportunities through digital solutions to ultimately improve the lives of our patients? If yes, we might have a perfect opportunity for you.

You can become part of our agile journey by joining Digital, Data & IT, Research & Early Development (DD&IT R&ED) as an Agile Coach.

Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

Let’s talk about the role
Our digital transformation is a high priority, and the journey is to stay on top of and develop digital products within Novo Nordisk. It’s a global journey with 2100+ colleagues worldwide, driving tasks with a twist of Digital, Data and IT. As an Agile Coach, you will play a key role in supporting the leadership team and the agile teams collaborating in clusters. You will also be a member of our Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE), setting direction for our agile transformation and being responsible for initiatives across our teams to mature and develop our organisation.

In this role, you will coach agile teams as well as individuals e.g., Scrum Masters, Product Owners and leadership, to help them spot and react on improvement areas. You will also have the opportunity to:

• Act as catalyst for change across our teams
• Promoting an agile culture, with individuals, teams, and cluster of teams
• Find pragmatic ways of working under different circumstances, taking detours on the path towards agility, while knowing what good looks like
• Promote product focus and value delivered by exemplifying ways to get stakeholder engagement
• Ensure commitment and understanding at all levels to deliver value to the business
• Collaborate with the Release Train Engineer, Product Managers and Solution Architects to drive the relentless improvement in our scaled setup

An important part of your job will also be exemplifying continuous learning and an innovation culture for greater and bolder products, sharing learnings and knowledge as basis for on-going development and implementation of best practices. You will work closely with your coach colleagues to ensure alignment and collaboration across the organisation. You will be part of a department of Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters in DD&IT R&ED, and of a broader network of Agile Coaches in Novo Nordisk.

The skills we hope to see
The ideal candidate will have a degree at minimum bachelor level in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar field of study. Additionally, to succeed in this role we imagine you have:

• Proven track record of hands-on experience in coaching agile teams at different maturity levels 
• Capacity to effectively build followership and coach teams to adapt the agile practices, principles, and values 
• Empathy, energy, and curiosity to excel in an environment with a high degree of empowerment 
• Ability to engage with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of an organisation and actively drive cross-collaborative initiatives and build communities 
• Capability of influencing leaders to adapt an agile mindset and practices
• Proficiency in cultivating a learning culture and passion for innovation, exemplified in expert facilitation techniques intended for innovation

We are looking for someone who is passionate about agile ways of working, gets energized from working with people in a fast-moving environment. We value experience in leading agile transformations and organizational change, understanding the significance of vision and adaptability in guiding teams through complex challenges. You should be committed to cultivating strong leadership through trust, transparency, and clear communication, ensuring every team member feels valued and motivated to contribute their best. Your approach should blend servant leadership with a focus on fostering a culture of accountability, creativity, and continuous learning.

As a person, we imagine you excel in communication and stakeholder management to always ensure a common understanding, engagement and support. You should always seek opportunities to collaborate with your aim set to unify the objectives and efforts of stakeholders, ultimately working towards making the team and the business operate as a single, cohesive entity.

Team and agile journey waiting for you

DD&IT R&ED is organized in agile teams together with our business partners. This close collaboration, with both solid product development skills and deep knowledge and understanding of the pharma research business and needs, enables us to support digital transformation and innovation in all parts of the Novo Nordisk value chain – from idea to patient. We deliver digital solution incrementally to our research colleagues and ensure delivery excellence through a constant focus on value and continuous learning. We are still maturing and developing our organization to adopt an agile mindset and convey that into our shared delivery model, and we are motivated in our effort to onboard skilled employees to support this ambitious transformation. 

Our Agile Coaches are anchored in the local LACE and have a close collaboration with both Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters to develop and mature agile practices, mindset and behaviour. Our agile product teams have highly skilled and dedicated employees, who support the DD&IT R&ED strategies by delivering digital solutions to our research colleagues and ensure adoption and benefit realization. We strive for high empowerment and autonomy and believe that it is the people’s differences, knowledge, and experience that create the joint strengths of a team.

In DD&IT R&ED we partner globally with R&ED to achieve scientific aspirations. We provide timely, best-in-class regulated and non-regulated digital solutions, infrastructure, and system management across the R&ED value chain. We strive to efficiently drive digital, data and innovation, and transformation by leveraging agile methodologies.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Founded in Denmark in 1923, Novo Nordisk has become one of the world’s leading healthcare companies. At Novo Nordisk, we are committed to driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. To fulfil this purpose, we pioneer scientific breakthroughs, expand access to our medicines, and work to prevent and ultimately cure disease. That said, we are anything but linear.

With us, your skills, commitment, and ambition help us change patients’ lives worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a rewarding and purpose-driven culture with talented and diverse co-workers. Therefore, your professional and personal development is essential for us, and in Novo Nordisk, the sky is the limit for career opportunities.

Every day, our thousands of digital experts work in all areas of technology. We navigate the tech spectrum from front-end to back-end, from artificial intelligence to machine learning, and from cloud systems to quantum computing. All to make a tangible impact on lives across the globe. How? Go explore at  TechLife at Novo Nordisk.

Contact 

For further information please contact Søren Nørregaard Laursen at [email protected].

Deadline

4 February 2025

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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.