Manager for Corporate Facilities Business Support

Are you passionate about providing top-notch business support? Do you enjoy driving house-in-order processes, project controlling, and improving financial performance?  Do you want to ensure operational excellence and compliance as our new Business Support Manager?

If yes, then this is your opportunity, as we are looking for a manager to establish and head up our Business Support team in the Corporate Facilities (CFa) Strategy Department at Novo Nordisk. Read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

The position 
As the manager of Corporate Facilities Business Support, your primary responsibility is to drive efficient and robust house-in-order processes, project controls and business partnering. This is a newly established department, therefore one of your first tasks will be to establish your own team. Anchored in the CFa Strategy Department, our Business Support team will oversee a range of key functions. As the manager of the team, your responsibilities will include:

• Recruiting and onboarding a team of business analysts and project controllers.
• Building and maintaining a centralised project controls function from scratch to support multiple ongoing large-budget CAPEX projects. This include implementing project governance and reporting frameworks and standards, enforcing project management methodologies and adding value to every aspect of the project by delivering key professional support and insights.
• Serving as the one-point of entry to/from the central finance organisation in Novo Nordisk.
• Leading and managing support for and delivering of key reporting and house-in-order processes for Corporate Facilities, such as month- and year-end closing, financial forecast and performance, GDPR, procurement and risk reporting, capacity planning and more.
• Continuously monitoring efficiency of business support and acting on feedback form key stakeholders to modify and sharpen this.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• Master’s degree in finance, economics or relevant fields 
• Minimum 4 years of proven excellent track record within finance and reporting, with experience in operational finance, or a background in management consulting
• Experience coaching and guiding junior team members and prior people management experience is a must
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English

As a person, you are an excellent leader, and your analytical mindset is accompanied by strong mindfulness and the ability to build relationships and establish credibility. You possess strong communication skills, a demonstrated ability to drive personal impact, while investing time and effort. 

About the department

CFa Strategy is part of Corporate Facilities with 375+ 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
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

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

Deadline 

26 January 2025.

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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.