Senior IT Project and Engagement Manager

Are you passionate about leading stakeholders towards realising the benefits of technology and do you want to drive projects that helps prepare our IT and organisational landscape for a digital future?

Then join our Corporate IT team as our new Senior IT Project and Engagement Manager and help us drive a broad portfolio of projects that support digitalisation, internationalisation, and organisational growth.

The position

As our new Senior IT Project and Engagement Manager, you will get a unique opportunity to work with senior stakeholders in a complex organisational landscape representing a variety of different companies and business needs as Corporate IT provides IT services and solutions to the Novo Nordisk Foundation, Novo Holdings, and its subsidiaries with a total of +500 global employees.

Besides managing your own portfolio of projects, you will drive conceptualisation of initiatives that sup-port the IT strategy and scalability of IT services across the organisations. You will drive projects that span across various business and IT domains, such as digital workplace, automation, service management, cyber security, and cloud migration. But most importantly, you will be pivotal in ensuring that everything we do is closely aligned with our strategy, foster synergies across our digital teams, and excel in ensuring that our organisations gain value and benefits from existing and new IT technologies.

You will become part of a team of 18 IT professionals working closely together to ensure that IT is continuously supporting the business needs and strategic goals in a dynamic and fast-paced environment of growing organisations. This is done in close collaboration with key stakeholders across the organisations and multiple technology vendors.

The role

You will be referring to and aligning priorities with our Senior IT Project Lead. However, you will be re-sponsible for your own projects and change management activities, where you will manage all aspects from scoping and defining deliverables to overseeing and reporting on progress, outcome, adoption, and handover to operations.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Lead IT projects that support the IT strategy and scalability across the organisations, including identification and conceptualisation of opportunities that support business needs
• Drive stakeholder engagement across the organisations to ensure we address pain points and opportunities within the IT and digitalisation landscape
• Lead execution of project proposals and business cases for management decisions, ensuring clarity and alignment with organisational goals.
• Promote collaboration and foster synergies across IT, digital and data teams in Novo Holdings and Novo Nordisk Foundation.
• Lead organisational change management including driving conceptualisation of stakeholder en-gagement, communication, training etc.
• Lead standardisation and optimisation of IT services and processes across Novo Nordisk Foun-dation, Novo Holdings, and its subsidiaries to support organisational scalability

Your work is expected to be carried out within normal working hours and from the Headquarter of Novo Nordisk Foundation and Novo Holdings in Tuborg Havn to the extent possible. However, remote work is possible given prior notice. Global projects may require flexible working hours and may include limited international travel for direct engagement and project oversight.

Professional Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with a relevant master’s degree and experience from a similar position. Moreover, to succeed in this role we imagine that you:

• Have at least 10 years of experience as project manager from management consulting or an in-ternal IT and business development function
• Communicate clearly at all levels of the organisation, from subject matter experts to senior management and are a confident presenter at town halls and training sessions
• Have extensive stakeholder and change management experience such as development of con-cepts to support adoption
• Are fluent in the Microsoft O365 package and familiar with various business productivity tools
• Are confident in managing multiple and diverse projects concurrently and can navigate an ex-tensive stakeholder landscape
• Are fluent in Danish and English (written and verbally)

Personal Qualifications

We are looking for a team member who is highly self-motivated and can work independently. You are excellent at stakeholder management and recognise the following:

• Personal drive with positive energy and curious mindset
• Strong in building relationships, collaborative and motivated by engaging with stakeholders across the organisation
• Ambitious, proactive and with a structured approach to problem identification and -solving.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and demands
• Quality-conscious with a strong focus on continuously identifying opportunities for improvement, making positive impact
• Assertive, reliable and have a team centric mindset
• Disciplined, resourceful and resilient

Application and Information

For further information, please contact Marietta Bak Hansen, Senior IT project Lead, [email protected].

We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than 9 March 2025.

To apply, please send your CV and cover by clicking the “Apply now” button.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation 

Established in Denmark in 1924, the Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives. The vision of the Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. The Foundation’s mission is to progress research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases as well as to advance knowledge and solutions to support a green transformation of society.  

In the coming years, the Foundation will broaden its scope and increase its grants for scientific, humanitarian, and social purposes, including solving the climate crisis and developing tomorrow’s food production. As a consequence, we are a growing organisation, which means new job openings and exciting opportunities for employees to be part of forming the future of the Foundation.