Digital Business Capability Lead/Director - Target Discovery & Translational Research

Are you a dynamic and visionary leader with a passion for science? Do you thrive when building connections and roadmaps for applying digital technologies to business needs? If you possess the drive and expertise to play a strategic role in shaping digital solutions within a global scientific environment, then seize the opportunity to be a driving force behind the next wave of target discovery in Novo Nordisk as Business Capability Lead (BCL) for the Targets and Translation cluster.

The position
As BCL you will use your strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical research value chain, with particular focus on target discovery and translational research, and digital expertise to enable Novo Nordisk to focus on the right targets and accelerate the path to the clinic. You would determine the most impactful areas where digital can be used to develop novel insights, through software products (buy or build) and data products for the researchers. You will partner with scientific stakeholders to define the scope and value of such initiatives, and with technical stakeholders (e.g. in the IT organization) to determine the appropriate architectural approaches and resourcing required for implementation. 

Your key areas of responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Qualifications
To thrive and succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

As a person, you excel at communicating with colleagues at different levels inside and outside of the company and across disciplines. You are used to navigate in a complex matrix organisation and take though discussions and decisions. You have a strategic and collaborative mindset.

About the department
The Scientific Digital Capabilities department is part of Scientific Data Registration, where our vision is to enable data-driven drug discovery and accelerate the research pipeline by scientific digital capabilities & solutions. We are responsible for providing scientific software and data to support the global research and early development organisation at Novo Nordisk. Our work spans driving digitalisation of laboratories, enabling scientific data capture, creating harmonized data for analytics, and providing informatics tools. We enable disruptive innovation and data driven decision making across areas that include disease understanding, molecular design, portfolio management and external scouting. We have a strong focus on employee engagement, and on developing and retaining talent.