Portfolio Analyst

Category:

Project Management & Agile

Are you passionate about driving strategic alignment and maximizing value through effective portfolio management?

Join our team as a Portfolio Analyst, where you’ll play a pivotal role in transitioning Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) in DD& IT PS from a transformational to an operational phase.

The position
As a Portfolio Analyst, you will play a crucial role in implementing and optimizing LPM governance, processes data and tooling across multiple functional portfolios. The role will plan and coordinate cross-portfolio alignment and stakeholder relations with purpose of continuous improvement of LPM operations.

Key responsibilities include:

- Planning and preparing Strategic Portfolio Forum meetings as well as documenting and following up on the outcomes to ensure strategic alignment and efficient decision flow within DDIT PS.
- Actively engage in and facilitate Portfolio Management Community of Practice to foster knowledge sharing and support Portfolio Managers to execute according to common LPM standards.
- Documenting investment demand intake and provide data and reporting on initiative progress, risks, and outcomes to different stakeholder groups.
- Conducting training and communications, incl. onboarding of new LPM stakeholders, to drive LPM operational excellence and maintain consistency across functional portfolios.
- Developing and advocating LPM best practices and leading continuous improvement activities to enhance LPM process and governance frameworks.
- Defining functional requirements for LPM data model and tooling.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we’re looking for candidates who meet most of the following criteria:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Finance, or related fields.
- Proven experience with designing, implementing and / or operating lean portfolio management (LPM) in a large complex organization.
- Good understanding of how LPM drives strategic alignment.
- Good understanding of SAFe Framework on Portfolio-level.
- Proven experience in analysing data and providing reporting to stakeholders, including business case / ROI evaluation and follow-up.
- Experience in collaboration with diverse stakeholders.
- luency in spoken and written English.

As a person, you are a proactive and flexible problem-solver with a knack for optimizing processes and driving efficiencies. You excel at collaborating with diverse teams and managing stakeholders, ensuring alignment and clear communication across all levels. Your creativity and critical thinking enable you to analyze complex situations and develop innovative solutions that deliver results. Adaptable to changing priorities, you thrive in dynamic environments, consistently demonstrating a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.

About the department
You will join the Strategy & Portfolio Management team within DD&IT PS Technology Foundation & Transformation. The team’s role is to establish and ensure the optimal set-up for LPM including effective governance, streamlined processes, and data transparency enabling DD&IT PS to deliver value to Product Supply through aligning execution with strategy and consistent prioritization.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 60,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.

If you want to learn more about how Novo Nordisk leads visions to real-life solutions that make a real-life impact, go explore on Novo Nordisk TechLife.

Contact
For more information about this opportunity, please reach out to Shila Kheder Nazari at sknz@novonordisk.com /+ 45 30 77 66 62.

Deadline
2 February 2025

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.

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.