Administrative / Project Manager (Temporary) in Corporate Alliance Management

Do you enjoy bringing structure to complex work, coordinating stakeholders, and ensuring critical tasks are executed on time? Would you like to support the management of strategic alliances that help shape the future of medicines for people living with chronic disease? Then you might be our new Administrative / Project Manager (temporary) in Corporate Alliance Management, Global Business Development, based out of our office in Søborg close to Copenhagen. Join Novo Nordisk and apply now for a role where your organisational and project skills will make a tangible impact!

The Position
Corporate Alliance Management handles a complex portfolio of strategic external alliances across the value chain. To maintain high standards of operational excellence and to support our team during a busy period, we are hiring a temporary Administrative / Project Manager to provide hands-on support with reporting, coordination, and process execution.

This temporary role will play a key part in enabling the Corporate Alliance Management team to deliver on its commitments by ensuring accurate reporting, timely coordination with our finance department and other internal stakeholders, and efficient management of agreement-related activities. You will work closely with CAM team members, legal and finance colleagues, and external contacts as required.

Your responsibilities will be focused on e.g.:

• Driving quarterly equity stake reporting for the CAM portfolio, ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and timely delivery
• Coordinating CAM inputs to our finance department/colleagues (milestones, royalties, other financial items), collect and validate information, and follow up to ensure alignment
• Providing operational Inova support: add and update agreements, obligations, and relevant materials in the system and ensure records are well maintained
• Supporting alliance activities such as committee meetings, terminations, tracking progress, booking, and coordinating internal  and external meetings
• Supporting department-level tasks and projects such as maintaining SharePoint offerings, contributing to annual KPI preparations, preparing presentation decks and other deliverables
• Maintaining clear documentation and trackers, escalate issues when needed, and contribute to process improvements to increase efficiency and transparency

This is a temporary position based in Søborg. Start date: As soon as possible. Initial agreement: Until the end of Q1 2026 (31 March).

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• Proven experience (typically 2+ years) in an administrative, coordination, project support, or operations role with experience from the pharmaceutical or biotech industry
• Strong organisational skills with attention to detail and an ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines concurrently
• Experience working with financial inputs (e.g., milestone/royalty tracking) or close collaboration with our finance department is desirable
• Familiarity with contract and obligations management systems (experience with Inova or similar systems is a plus) and strong recordkeeping practices
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills; ability to liaise effectively across functions and with external partners
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word) and comfort working with SharePoint or similar collaboration platforms
• A proactive, solution-oriented attitude and the ability to work independently while fitting into a fast-paced team environment
• Bachelor’s degree or relevant vocational qualification preferred

As a person you are reliable, structured and service minded. You demonstrate good judgment, a collaborative mindset, and the ability to prioritise effectively. You are comfortable working with detailed operational tasks while understanding their impact on broader team objectives. You bring a can-do attitude and are open to identifying small improvements that help the team operate more smoothly.

About the Department
Corporate Alliance Management handles a complex portfolio of strategic external alliances across the value chain across all therapeutic areas in Novo Nordisk. Responsibilities include leading the strategic discussions and decision-making processes to effectively lead external collaborations and partnerships. The Corporate Alliance Management team is anchored in Global Business Development.

Global Business Development is the main business development unit of Novo Nordisk. Here, we gather best-in-class strategists, analysts, dealmakers, and specialists in post-deal management to form a team of future-focused experts. We forge external collaborations and bring in innovation and companies that share our purpose, mission, and values. Our culture of teamwork, transparency, and accountability drives our work to enable leaps of transformation beyond ordinary incremental changes. That’s why we embrace the transformative power of partnerships and collaboration.

Working in Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For more information, please contact VP of Corporate Alliance Management, Lasse Funch Hamza Jacobsen, at LFUJ@novonordisk.com

Deadline
10 Dec 2025.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. 

We’re not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.