Portfolio Governance Associate: Drive CAPEX Projects

Novo Nordisk A/S; Kalundborg; On-site; DKK 570,000 - 838,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk A/S is seeking an Associate Project Portfolio Manager to oversee CAPEX investments, ensuring governance, delivering clear dashboards, and spotting risks across the portfolio. You will support gate decisions, consolidate schedules and budgets, and help production capacity investments stay on track.

Working across projects, you’ll collaborate with Finance, PMO, and site teams to enable informed, timely decisions and drive consistency in reporting and prioritisation across the

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination or a junior project role.
• Comfort with collecting, checking and presenting schedules, budgets and forecasts in Excel/PowerPoint.
• Structured, systematic work style with process awareness.
• Ability to influence without formal authority and explain complex topics.

Responsibilities

• Support the gatekeeper role by ensuring deliverables and materials are ready for approval.
• Collect and quality-check schedules, budgets, forecasts and status updates.
• Build dashboards and visuals showing priorities, budgets, milestones, risks and dependencies.
• Anticipate obstacles across projects and support managers before they become problems.
• Connect project managers at similar stages to align early and share resources.
• Prepare analyses for portfolio prioritisation and improve reporting practices.

Skills

Project coordination

Budget & forecasting

Dashboards & visuals

Stakeholder communication

Structured problem solving

Education

Engineering / Business / Finance degree

Job description

Novo Nordisk A/S is seeking an Associate Project Portfolio Manager to oversee CAPEX investments, ensuring governance, delivering clear dashboards, and spotting risks across the portfolio. You will support gate decisions, consolidate schedules and budgets, and help production capacity investments stay on track.

Working across projects, you’ll collaborate with Finance, PMO, and site teams to enable informed, timely decisions and drive consistency in reporting and prioritisation across the