Principal Project Manager

Novonesis; Hørsholm; Hybrid; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Novonesis seeks a Principal Project Manager to drive delivery of IT initiatives across its enterprise business applications landscape in a hybrid, office-first setting in Hørsholm.

You will coordinate across business, IT and external vendors, lead projects, and support M&A integration, ensuring smooth handover to operations and engagement management teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience delivering IT projects in enterprise environments.
• Experience working across business, IT, and vendor organizations.
• Professional fluency in English.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of IT initiatives across enterprise business applications.
• Act as the IT lead for projects, ensuring structure, execution, and progress.
• Coordinating activities across IT teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors.
• Supporting M&A initiatives and application‑related integration activities.
• Ensuring effective transition and handover to operations and engagement management teams.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Execution

English fluency

Job description

Interested in a career that matters?

Join us as our new Principal Project Manager – Enterprise Business Applications

As Principal Project Manager, you will drive the delivery of application-related projects, improvements, and transformation initiatives across Novonesis’ enterprise application landscape. Acting as the IT lead for application-related projects and changes, you will ensure progress, coordination, and successful execution across business stakeholders, IT teams, and external partners. This role combines hands‑on project leadership with cross‑functional collaboration and is ideal for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment with varying levels of complexity and project maturity.

About the team:

You will join the Principal Project Manager team within Enterprise Business Applications (EBA), a global team in Enterprise Business Solutions, with colleagues across Denmark, Germany, Brazil, and India. EBA manages a broad portfolio of enterprise applications supporting critical business processes across Novonesis. The team works across three capability areas: Tech & Solutions, Project Management, and Engagement Management. This position is part of the Project Management capability, focused on driving delivery and coordination across the enterprise application landscape.

In this role you’ll make an impact by:

• Driving delivery of IT initiatives across enterprise business applications
• Acting as the IT lead for projects, ensuring structure, execution, and progress
• Coordinating activities across IT teams, business stakeholders, and external vendors
• Supporting M&A initiatives and application‑related integration activities
• Ensuring effective transition and handover to operations and engagement management teams

To succeed you must hold:

• 5+ years of experience delivering IT projects in enterprise environments
• Experience working across business, IT, and vendor organizations
• Strong project management and stakeholder management capabilities
• Professional fluency in English
• Ability to drive execution across multiple initiatives simultaneously

You will thrive in this role if you are:

• Strongly execution‑ and delivery‑oriented
• An effective communicator and coordinator
• Pragmatic and solution‑focused
• Comfortable taking ownership and accountability
• Able to navigate ambiguity in a dynamic environment

Location:

Hørsholm, Denmark (Hybrid, office‑first)

Application deadline:

July 31, 2026

Contact details:

Pernille Grubbe, Senior Manager, Enterprise Business Applications, [e-mail]

Note: We will invite candidates for interviews after the application deadline, so you can expect to hear from us shortly thereafter. Please note that, due to the summer holiday season, responses to emails may be delayed and will be addressed after the holidays

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we’ve gotten so far. And it’s how we’ll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

Explore other openings

If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career