Associate Director, PMO

Novo Nordisk; Ballerup Kommune; On-site; DKK 847,000 - 1,245,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk is seeking an Associate Director, PMO to turn strategic priorities into focused investments and execution. You will unite strategy, portfolio decisions and delivery across Denmark and India, collaborating with leadership and teams to establish scalable deployment across sites.

You will drive governance, prioritisation and performance, contributing to the AI strategy and its initiatives portfolio while strengthening cross-functional governance and vendor management.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in business, engineering, technology, data, economics or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5–10 years of portfolio management and leadership support experience.
• Strong project and portfolio management capabilities including budgets, prioritisation, resources, risks and performance reporting.
• Experience supporting organizational development and structured ways of working.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management; able to advise across functions and locations.
• Self-motivated, structured, with coordination skills and vendor collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the project portfolio management process, aligning priorities with strategy and objectives.
• Create visibility of portfolio health: budgets, performance, resources, progress, risks and dependencies.
• Partner with Deployment Manager to improve deployment standards, governance and processes across sites.
• Translate deployment lessons into reusable practices for consistent, scalable execution.
• Serve as strategic partner to leadership, translating objectives into priorities and execution plans, including AI initiatives portfolio.
• Strengthen collaboration across Denmark and India with cross-functional teams and external partners.
• Own and drive governance including vendor management.

Skills

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Vendor management

Education

Master's degree

Advanced degree in related field

Job description

Your impact begins here

As Associate Director, PMO, you will help turn strategic priorities into focused investments and successful execution. You will create transparency across our project portfolio, strengthen the way we prioritise, plan and follow performance, and help establish a scalable approach to deployment across sites. Working closely with leadership and teams in Denmark and India, you will connect strategy, portfolio decisions and operational delivery.

What You’ll Bring

• A relevant master's degree in business, engineering, technology, data, economics or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience, including portfolio management and leadership support.
• Strong project and portfolio management capabilities, including experience with budgets, prioritisation, resource allocation, risks, dependencies and performance reporting.
• Experience supporting organizational development, strategic deployment, and the establishment of structured ways of working.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to act as a trusted advisor and facilitate across functions and locations.
• A self-motivated and structured approach, combined with strong coordination skills and experience communicating and collaborating with external vendors.

What You’ll Do

• Own and drive the project portfolio management process, connecting portfolio priorities and investment decisions with strategic and business objectives.
• Create clear visibility of portfolio health, including budgets, financial performance, resource allocation, execution progress, risks and dependencies, enabling timely leadership decisions.
• Partner closely with the Deployment Manager to establish and continuously improve common deployment standards, governance, processes and ways of working across sites.
• Translate lessons from deployments into reusable practices, helping make execution more consistent, predictable and scalable while maintaining appropriate flexibility for different business needs.
• Act as a strategic partner to department leadership, translating strategic objectives into concrete priorities and execution plans, and contribute to strategic initiatives including the development and implementation of the organisation's AI strategy and AI initiatives portfolio.
• Strengthen collaboration across Denmark and India and work with project, deployment, architecture, product, business and external partners to align priorities, capabilities and delivery.
• Own and drive internal and external stakeholders' governance including vendor management.

Who You’ll Work With

SAP Warehouse Solutions CoE is a global organisation responsible for the operation, support, maintenance, continuous improvement, and deployment of SAP warehouse solutions across Novo Nordisk. Our platforms enable critical warehouse and supply chain processes used throughout the value chain, from Research & Development and Manufacturing to Distribution and Commercial Operations.

As a strategic IT partner to the business, we deliver reliable, scalable, and innovative warehouse solutions that ensure efficient material flow, inventory management, and logistics execution across Novo Nordisk's global network. We work closely with stakeholders worldwide to support business growth, operational excellence, and the ongoing digital transformation of our supply chain.

Our mission is to provide world-class warehouse technology and support that enables Novo Nordisk to reliably supply medicines to patients around the world.

What You Can Expect Here

This is an opportunity to shape how a complex portfolio is prioritised, governed and delivered. You will have a broad strategic remit, with the opportunity to strengthen deployment practices, improve leadership decision-making and help translate strategy into execution.

You will also contribute to future-focused organisational priorities, including identifying opportunities to use AI to improve processes, decision-making and delivery.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 847,000 to 1,245,100 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.

The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.

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