Business Consultant

Are you passionate about driving business processes and development in a rapidly growing organisation? Do you know how to motivate and engage stakeholders, while connecting the dots across a large organisation? Would you like to be involved in setting strategy and direction, identifying solutions to challenges and making impactful decisions, while having ongoing opportunities to have your ideas heard? 

If yes, then this is your opportunity. We are looking for a dedicated Business Consultant to join our CFa Strategy department to serve our colleagues at the Service Centres business unit. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!  

The position   

As a Business Consultant, your primary responsibility is to understand, analyse and follow-up on business needs, be the strategic business partner to our colleagues in the Service Centres business unit, and provide executive business support to senior leaders. 

Your main tasks will be to will: 

• Facilitate and arrange management meetings, including internal and external workshop sessions 
• Identify and implement relevant KPIs to drive performance, balancing long and short term goals 
• Identify and implement business development opportunities, aligning strategy with on-the-ground observations, and design or modify business processes and solutions to meet operational excellence and continuous improvement objectives 
• Keep track of and follow up on actions and prepare presentations on behalf of senior leaders 
• Lead key projects and ensure alignment through continuous stakeholder management 

Qualifications  

The ideal candidate should hold a master or bachelor degree with minimum of 3 years of work experience in a similar or complimentary role.  

Other success criteria are:   

• Strong communication skills both in English and Danish, and ability to effectively advise businesses and articulate complex technical information in a clear and understandable manner 
• Experience with planning and facilitating workshops and meetings with mid-level and senior leadership teams, and proficiency in MS Office Suite and making stunning presentations 
• Project management experience  
• Analytical and capable of turning complex information into simple and engaging presentations. 
• Ideally, understanding of facilities management and/or utility installations, such as cooling and ventilation.    

As a person, you are proactive, adaptable, and possess a high level of independence, with a meticulous attention to detail, while being able to thrive in an environment that requires making independent decisions and navigating through organizational complexities by fostering relationships and motivating oneself. Additionally, we require you to remain motivated in the face of organizational resistance and commit to operational excellence. Furthermore, you demonstrate a strong sense of responsibility and ownership, strategic thinking, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to drive continuous improvement.  

While not a primary requirement, a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit are also desirable qualities you can bring to this role. 

About the department   

CFa Strategy is part of Corporate Facilities with around 350 colleagues from countless professional fields make up Corporate Facilities, which is anchored in the area Finance, Legal and Global Solutions. We enable Novo Nordisk to focus on the core business by delivering simple and agile solutions for physical infrastructures (campuses, real estate, utilities, workplaces), facility management services as well as security operations, while progressing a major project portfolio. We create tangible business results by partnering with all areas of the business. What we do impacts all Novo Nordisk’s Danish colleagues – we care for their workday. We give a high level of responsibility from day one and you will experience a continuous steep learning curve, where your aspirations set the boundaries. 

In Corporate Facilities we work with proactively creating win-win solutions with internal and external stakeholders in the areas we operate in, while ensuring engaging communications about our 130+ services to our 22,000+ colleagues across our Danish locations.  

Working at Novo Nordisk  

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.  

Contact  

For further information, please contact Director Steffen Leslie Beck-Pedersen at +45 3075 8415.  

Deadline  

20 October 2024.   

Please note that we will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, we encourage you to apply promptly.  

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.