Personal Assistant to Corporate Vice President

Are you an experienced Personal Assistant (PA) eager to take on new challenges in Novo Nordisk? Do you have experience with administrative tasks and event management? Can you manage several different tasks without losing overview? Then you might be our new PA to the head of site, our Corporate Vice President (CVP), at our Novo Nordisk production site in Hjørring called Needle Manufacturing. Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The position

As the CVP Personal Assistant (PA), you will be a key player in ensuring the smooth running of our area through your excellent support to the CVP and the management team.

Your main responsibilities will be focused on:

• Acting as a sparring partner to the CVP, ensuring effective business processes and execution of management meetings, including documentation of meetings
• Ensuring calendar management and arranging practical details related to management and area meetings
• Preparing and overseeing the department’s budget as well as handling invoicing for the department
• Planning and preparing local events such as our area’s seminar day and annual party, site Christmas party and other social arrangements on the site
• Acting as a liaison between the CVP and stakeholders

Furthermore, you will support with a variety of small and large ad-hoc tasks in support of the CVP, HR Partner and the whole management team, proactively contributing to the general success of our area.

You will be an integral part of the area’s management team while acting as a sparring partner to the CVP, ensuring information is handled with confidentiality and discretion. In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute significantly within the area, fostering professional growth in a fast-paced organisation. 

Qualifications

To be successful in this role you have:

• Experience from a similar position
• A structured and detail-oriented approach to driving administrative processes as well as solving everyday tasks, even under pressure
• A good business understanding and experience in driving or contributing to projects
• Proficiency in MS Office 365, especially PowerPoint, Teams and Excel
• Full professional proficiency in written and spoken English and Danish, and you can communicate effectively with senior members of the management team.

We are looking for a trustworthy person who possesses high integrity and has an eye for delivering high-quality results. Your proactive approach and customer-oriented mindset enable you to be two steps ahead and foresee needs before they arise, while your strong interpersonal skills help you foster strong business relationships. Since you will be in contact with a lot of people and functions both internally and externally, your ability to collaborate and communicate is crucial.

You are service-minded, have a can-do attitude, enjoy working under tight deadlines and changing priorities and master good coordination skills. It is essential that you thrive working independently and being in a global environment of continuous development and focus on high quality and results.

About the department

You will be part of the area’s management team and have nine close colleagues. The team is part of Needle Manufacturing in Hjørring which is responsible for the internal production of pen needles as well as quality control of all Novo Nordisk pen needles produced both internal and external. We are organised into seven departments with more than 425 employees dedicated to ensuring the pen needle supply to Novo Nordisk. We are driven by a quality mindset, and we pride ourselves on being a workplace where our can-do spirit and high ambitions come together to create great results for the benefit of our patients.​

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our careers is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 75,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact CVP Communication Partner & PA, Trine Nielsen, on [email protected]

Deadline

2 April 2025

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your resume.​

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.