Senior Programme Manager - Strategy Office

Are you a highly experienced project management professional with a proven track record in leading complex programmes and establishing project execution excellence. Do you thrive in a high-integrity, fast-paced, multi-stakeholder environment, ensuring strategic priorities are executed efficiently? If so, this is your opportunity to drive impactful change at Novo Holdings as a Senior Programme Manager in the Strategy Office.

As a Senior Programme Manager in the Strategy Office, you will play a key role in shaping the future of our organisation. Your ability to foster strong partnerships, navigate ambiguity, and drive alignment in a complex, matrixed environment will be essential. We’re looking for someone who can streamline programme processes—ensuring they are effective without unnecessary complexity—while building trust and momentum across teams.

Novo Holdings is offering an opportunity for personal and professional growth and learning and development in a dynamic, ambitious and values-driven work environment, characterized by a global outlook, a dedicated focus on sustainability, and a significant investment capacity and deal flow.

The Job

As a Senior Programme Manager, you will play a critical role in establishing, executing, structuring, and optimising project management practices across Novo Holdings. Your primary focus will be on ensuring exceptional project delivery, prioritizing initiatives based on business value, and driving programme management across Novo Holdings with an initial heavy weight on the current digital transformation.

The position will challenge your professional, academic, and intellectual capacity.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and track a comprehensive project portfolio, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities
• Drive project execution - Specific setup on each project will differ, however, across all projects there will be an element of tracking process and ensuring a holistic project execution toolbox is used
• Establish and manage a project management toolbox, standardising best practices across the organisation
• Train internal stakeholders in project management methodologies and execution frameworks
• Develop and maintain documentation, process standardisation, and knowledge sharing
• Provide structured support to project owners in project scoping, design, and execution
• Facilitate consultant engagements, ensuring efficient collaboration with external advisors
• Communicate clear milestones, success factors, and risk assessments to senior leadership and stakeholders
• Act as a key partner to senior leadership in decision-making by providing transparency on project progress, priorities, and resource allocation

You will join our team of 4 people in our Strategy Office anchored within Finance and Operations. The team’s experience covers strategy development, economic research, investments and life science with background from top management consultancies. As part of your learning and development, you will receive continuous feedback from and engage in sparring with the team and stakeholders.

Academic & Professional Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with the following qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a STEM-related field
• Supplementary education in best-practice project and programme management frameworks (e.g., PMP, PRINCE2, Agile, Lean)
• 10+ years of experience in project execution and programme management within the investment or consulting industry
• Proven expertise in leading and navigating large-scale transformations in multi-stakeholder global environments
• Preferred experience in digital transformation programme management
• Thorough understanding of agile development processes and strong technical skills with an appreciation of large transformations. Ideally you have thrived in the space between IT and the business.

Personal Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who is:

• Strategic and execution-focused – able to deliver high-quality results on time
• Analytical and structured, with a strong ability to manage multiple complex projects
• An excellent communicator, capable of delivering clear, concise project updates to senior stakeholders
• A proactive problem solver, ensuring process standardisation and knowledge sharing
• End-user focused, understanding how to translate project outcomes into tangible business improvements
• An adaptable leader, able to work independently while collaborating effectively across teams
• A role model for Novo Holdings' values
• A team player who thrives in a collaborative and international work environment

Contact

For further information, please contact Kasper Sobfeldt Jahn, Executive Director at [email protected].

We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible and no later than March 19, 2025.

To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, grade transcripts, and other relevant documents by clicking on the “Apply now” button. We will review applications on an ongoing basis.

About Novo Holdings

Novo Holdings is a leading global life science investor, with a focus on creating long-term value with a strong focus on ESG. As a life science investor, Novo Holdings provides seed and venture capital to development-stage companies and takes significant ownership positions in growth and well-established companies. Novo Holdings also manages a broad portfolio of diversified financial assets. We work to generate returns to the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the largest grant giving foundations globally.

For further information visit www.novoholdings.dk