Vice President Assistant

Do you have the experience and the skills to provide excellent administrative support to a dedicated area driving translational plans and early clinical activities? Are you passionate about administrative tasks and good at handling documents and IT systems? Do you thrive in a fun and dynamic environment, where two days are rarely the same? Then you might be our new Vice President (VP) Assistant!

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The position

As VP Assistant you will become the backbone of Early Clinical Development and Translational Medicine area and get to work with a wide range of administrative tasks offering support to two of our managers. Your main task will include:

• Complex calendar management including prioritisation, meeting booking, travel arrangements etc.
• Budget management including planning, controlling and following up on our yearly wheel, handling invoices etc.
• Support with people administration and onboarding activities across the area
• Arrange meetings including booking catering, taking minutes and follow up on action points

In this position you will be a highly valued part of two management teams, helping to ensure our managers are well prepared and up to date.

Qualifications

The right candidate for this position is first of all excited about working in an administrative supportive role. Furthermore, we are looking for the following qualifications:

• Experience from a similar position, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry
• Flair for numbers and experience with the planning and controlling of budgets
• Solid IT skills including Microsoft Office skills and easily adapt to new systems. Knowledge of SAP, Coupa and SuccessFactors is considered an advantage

• You are proficient in both written and spoken English

As a person you have a can-do attitude and enjoy being the go-to person in the office. You enjoy working independently and are proactive and detail oriented when identifying needs. Regardless of the tasks you see it as your responsibility to make sure that the office is running smoothly and lastly, you use a structured approach to stay on top of any projects and have the ability and willingness to adjust quickly to new situations in a continuously developing environment.

About the department

Early Clinical Development and Translational Medicine are two areas within Research and Early Development. As an integrated part of Global Translation, we are in Early Clinical Development scientifically and operational responsible for designing, planning and execution of early Clinical studies in new and exciting therapeutic areas across Novo Nordisk portfolio.

In Translational Medicine we lead the individual project’s translational strategy. This includes tracking pharmacodynamic biomarkers that can be used to indicate efficacy in our early trials by demonstrating that our candidate drugs engage with the target and have some mechanistic or disease-modulatory effect. We pre-define success criteria to support the decision to proceed or stop a project based on trial biomarker data.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 61,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Lene Damgaard Tiedt, +45 34482231.

Deadline

29th of January 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 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.