Head of Portfolio Management and Governance

Do you have a love for digital product management, lean portfolio management and enjoy working with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders across the organisation? Do you want to steer the digital product portfolio to reinvent how Novo Nordisk does development? 

Then, you should not miss the opportunity to join as our new Head of Portfolio Management and Governance in Development Digital Transformation!

The Position
As a Head of Portfolio Management and Governance, you will be responsible for strategic portfolio reviews with senior management, continuously improving our portfolio management set up and capabilities and ultimately ensuring that our investments/prioritisation is valued driven and in snyc with the applicable business strategies. 

You will be leading a cross-functional team with representatives from line of business and IT, driving and improving lean portfolio operations to visualise and track of our digital product portfolio’s Kanban, roadmap, and value realisation, collaborating with our Finance partners on the monitoring of ongoing spend and budget planning. You will report to the VP of Strategy, Portfolio and Capability Management.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Ensure portfolio products have, follow and track SMART OKRs that are fully in sync with the applicable business strategies
• Take day-to-day responsibility of functionally leading employees (both within and outside of the DevDT area) concerned with portfolio management tasks, creating a team environment with clear priorities, roles & responsibilities and managing available resources
• Continuously improve on the existing DTLT governance framework in line with the organization’s maturity and capacity, including which portfolio decisions to take in which forum and how decision-making forum below DTLT should be structured
• Establish and automate insight-driving reports detailing portfolio progress and outcomes achieved, team metrics, financial health and risks
• Collaborate with internal teams to refine and enhance the DTLT operating model and governance

Qualifications
To be a competitive candidate, you should have:

• A master’s degree or above in a relevant area
• At least, 10 years of relevant experience in Digital Product / Portfolio Management, Digital Transformation, and/or Technology Management Consulting. Experience in Life Science and/or Finance is a strong plus
• Substantial experience with internally focused digital products to enhance performance/efficiency 
• Proven expertise in digital product management including discovery and experimentation, demonstrating a track record of successfully managing digital products
• Significant experience in leadership roles, including mentoring and developing team members, fostering a collaborative and high-performance culture
• Experience in agile delivery approaches, with relevant certifications (SAFe LPM preferred) as well as change management certification as a plus

As a professional, you are self-driven, structured, and detail-oriented with excellent communication abilities in English, and you have excellent analytical skills. You have a positive attitude, curiosity, energy and a strategic mindset to approach tasks independently and result oriented.

About the department
Novo Nordisk drives clinical trials in more than 55 countries worldwide and collaborates with 6,000+ sites at hospitals and clinics. Digital enablement of the underlying processes is key to maintain our leading industry position. In the Development Digital Transformation Office, our purpose is to coordinate, improve and accelerate digitalisation to achieve our ambitious business targets and provide new innovative medicines for people living with severe chronic diseases.  

As Novo Nordisk invests heavily in digital products across Development, our area guides these investments to maximise business outcomes, aiming for the best possible user experience. We are responsible for the portfolio strategy, product sequence and prioritisation and value realisation tracking. As such, the experience embedded in our area sets the direction for cultural evolution and capability building across the organisation.

Working at 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 further information, please contact Moritz Butscheid, Vice President, at EMTB@novonordisk.com 

Deadline
18 May 2025. 

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.