Team lead, Digital Partnering & Adoption - notice shortened application deadline

Novo Nordisk A/S; Gentofte Kommune; Remote; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk Foundation is seeking a Team Lead for Digital Partnering & Adoption in its Digital, AI & Data Excellence department. The role is based at NNF’s headquarters in Tuborg Havn, Denmark, on-site with flexibility by agreement.

You will lead a team delivering project management, change management, and business process capabilities, aligning with the organisation’s AI and data strategy. The successful candidate will bring extensive leadership experience, strong cross-functional

Qualifications

• Solid experience leading teams in digital or data contexts.
• Track record delivering projects from stakeholder discussions to adoption.
• Experience setting or maturing how projects and change are run.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow the team and build project, change and business process capabilities.
• Set and own the department’s framework for project and change management.
• Chair portfolio sessions on priorities, sequencing and capacity with senior leads.
• Ensure intake quality so leadership can decide on action steps.
• Anchor cross-organisational collaboration.
• Set direction for AI and data adoption across NNF.

Skills

Project leadership

Change management

Business partnering

Portfolio management

Stakeholder management

Adoption of AI

English fluency

Job description

Description

At the Novo Nordisk Foundation (NNF), our vision is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. That gives our work a real purpose, and it is why we need our data, digital solutions and AI to be used, not just built. Do you want to lead the team that makes that happen, and shape how a whole department runs its projects and change work? If so, join our Digital, AI & Data Excellence department as Team Lead for Digital Partnering & Adoption.

The position

The Digital, AI & Data Excellence department supports and accelerates NNF’s strategic and digital ambitions. Around 15 colleagues work across two teams: Digital & Data Solutions builds and operates the grant management solution, the data foundation, in house build digital solutions and our AI capabilities, while Digital Partnering & Adoption, which you will lead, brings that work to the organisation through project and change management and business process management. In practice, most projects draw on people from both teams, so the two work as one department rather than as separate units.

Main responsibilities

• Lead, develop and grow the team, and build the project, change and business process capabilities the department needs
• Set and own the department’s framework for project and change management, and ensure it is applied on every project
• Chair our departments digital portfolio sessions on priorities, sequencing and capacity with the head of department and the lead of Digital & Data Solutions, and hold project leads accountable for budgets and resourcing
• Ensure the team qualifies incoming needs from the organisation well, so that the leadership team and stakeholders can decide what happens now, later and not at all
• Anchor cross-organisational collaboration.
• Set the direction for adoption of AI and data across NNF and raise the level of maturity
• Create the conditions for the team to find the opportunities nobody has looked at yet and turn them into approved business cases, with adoption as part of done

The role is based at NNF’s headquarters in Tuborg Havn within normal working hours. We are an office-first workplace, so you should expect to be on site as a rule, with flexibility by agreement.

Professional qualifications

• Solid experience, typically around 8 years or more, several of them in project leadership, change management or business partnering in a digital or data context
• Experience leading people, formally, with a track record of developing individuals and building a team
• A record of taking deliveries end to end, from the first stakeholder conversation through to adoption
• Experience setting or maturing how projects and change are run in an organisation, beyond applying an existing method
• Experience prioritising a portfolio against finite capacity and cost, and holding a priority when demand exceeds capacity
• Experience building and defending a business case, and enough understanding of data, digital solutions and AI to challenge a design or an estimate
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal

Personal qualifications

• A leader who develops people, gives direct feedback and builds confidence in first-time project leads
• Curious, convincing and persistent, able to spot the opportunity nobody has looked at yet
• Committed to the department’s success rather than optimising their own team. A collaborative leader who develops solutions together with their team and colleagues across the department rather than working alone, contributes to decisions beyond their own area, and works well with technical and non-technical colleagues
• Comfortable challenging a wish or a shortcut that would cost NNF later

Someone who contributes to a supportive and open working environment

You do not need to tick every box. If you recognise yourself in most of this and the role appeals to you, we would like to hear from you.

Application and information

As this is a people leader position, the process includes a personality and leadership assessment, a case and an interview with the hiring manager’s manager.

About The Novo Nordisk Foundation

Established in Denmark in 1924, the Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives. The vision of the Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. The Foundation’s mission is to progress research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases as well as to advance knowledge and solutions to support a green transformation of society.