Senior Portfolio Manager: Data-Driven Governance & Growth

Novo Nordisk

Gladsaxe Kommune

On-site

DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Novo Nordisk is seeking a Senior Portfolio Manager to drive clear, data-guided decisions across ADI. You will partner with areas to manage activity portfolios and translate data into actionable insights for governance and annual planning.

The role focuses on value-based decisions, transparency of trade-offs, and evolving tools and models including an activity-based cost model and the Product Team Playbook. Fluency in English is required.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in business administration, economics, finance, engineering, life sciences or another relevant field.
5–8 years of relevant experience in portfolio management, business planning, consulting, project management, change management or a related discipline.
Experience creating and quality-assuring portfolio, product or financial data, analyses, reporting and decision materials for senior stakeholders.
Proven ability to solve problems, plan and execute workstreams, manage improvement initiatives and coach stakeholders in a complex matrix organisation.
Solid understanding of business processes, governance and annual planning cycles.
Strong analytical, facilitation and communication skills, with sound judgement and the ability to navigate ambiguity and competing priorities.
Fluent English.

Responsibilities

Partner with selected ADI areas to manage their activity portfolios, ensuring alignment with business strategy, value-based decisions and effective tracking of performance and outcomes.
Turn portfolio data into actionable insights, dashboards and presentations, and represent Portfolio Management & Governance in selected ADI and R&D governance forums.
Own and evolve selected concepts, artefacts and tools, such as the activity-based cost model, value framework, Product Team Playbook and the portfolio management and OKR environment in Azure DevOps, so they stay current and easy to use.
Lead improvement projects end to end to update, replace or automate portfolio concepts, tools and processes, testing and scaling AI-enabled tools where they improve data quality, efficiency or user experience.
Drive adoption of new ways of working, with a focus on the annual planning cycle, by coaching stakeholders across the matrix and building alignment without formal authority.