Post Merger Integration (PMI) Finance Project Director

Are you passionate about driving Post-Merger integration for a manufacturing site? Are you an experienced project manager with a wealth of experience in managing complex projects?

If so, we invite you to join our team as a Post Merger Integration (PMI) Finance Project Director. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position
Aseptic Manufacturing (AM) is the largest unit within Product Supply in Novo Nordisk and is continuously expanding to serve more patients. As a PMI Project Director, you will oversee the post-merger integration of financial processes for multiply brownfield sites. The successful candidate will be responsible for driving the financial post-merger integration project, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives, the achievement of key milestones, and the implementation of the targeted operational model in collaboration with various stakeholders across the sites, global functions and the Integration Management Office (IMO).

Please be aware that the position availability will depend on the case closure status.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the development and operationalization of a comprehensive plan for finance post-merger integration target to NN standards including financial processes, R&R for all relevant stakeholders, and finance systems.
• Proactively identifying risks and mitigating these to meet the project’s strategic objectives.
• Identifying key change elements across processes, people, and systems for change management; creating and facilitating change management plans.
• Ensuring alignment between PMI site finance lead across sites, SMEs across organization and management team.
• Ensuring effective communication to and with all stakeholders.
• Ensuring that financial activities are taken to realise the business case of the integration.

Qualifications
 Your experiences include:

• Master’s degree in finance, accounting, or similar.
• Extensive experience with managing complex projects in international settings.
• 5+ year experience in global M&A will be considered an advantage.
• Profound knowledge and understanding of key project management tools and methodologies, with PM certifications such as PMP or PRINCE2, will be considered an advantage.
• A well-organized and structured approach with the ability to navigate in a complex business environment.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks within given assignments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.
• The ability to effectively lead transformation processes. 
• Fluency in both written and spoken English.

On a personal level, you are known for your professionalism, integrity and trustworthiness. You are respectful, credible and reliable, and you demonstrate drive and initiative. While you are detail-oriented, you are able to see through complexity and summarize issues clearly and concisely. You are flexible in situations of uncertainty and open to change, while maintaining high quality standards.

About the department
AM Finance, Investments & Procurement (FIP) is a part of AM Business Development & Support, located in Bagsværd – an international and high-performing department, consisting of ~60 people from approximately 20 countries. AM FIP team is responsible for finance, investment finance, investment governance, compliance and procurement for the whole SVP area. We are a trusted partner to the organisation, focusing on financial excellence, productivity and expanding our global production network across AM.
You get the opportunity to join a diverse and high performing team of colleagues with different levels of seniority and business experience. We use our varying experience to create novel ideas and high-quality solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the global Aseptic Manufacturing organisation. You will be working in the central business support unit with an environment characterized by innovation, openness, and highly engaged colleagues, who are dedicated to contributing to business, ultimately serving our patients in need of our medicine.

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 Dan Yu, Sr. Director, AM Finance, Investment and Procurement ([email protected]) or Kelli Goodson, CVP of AM Business Development and Support ([email protected])
 

Deadline
20 November 2024

Please note, applications will be reviewed, and interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.
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 or CV. 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.