Head of Design

Key Responsibilities

: Strategic Vision and Leadership: Act as a key visionary within the Digital Products leadership and our Digital Transformation Leadership Team, directing our digital product strategy and ensuring design excellence. Advocate for a user-centric design approach, catering to the complex requirements of healthcare professionals and Novo Nordisk employees involved in clinical trials. Implement a global user research strategy, grounding our flagship digital products and tools in genuine user empathy from over 80 countries. Champion design-driven product adoption and user engagement by pioneering user-centric metrics. Cultivate the digital design team, bridging talent gaps, recruiting elite designers, and promoting a culture of innovation and collaborative growth. Collaborative Leadership: Work alongside digital product leadership to embed user insights and user-centric methods across the product lifecycle, not just during discovery. Enhance cross-departmental collaboration, embedding design thinking into all product development and business strategies. Offer mentorship and strategic leadership to the Design Operations Lead and the design team, boosting design operations and user experience. Develop the design organization, managing the design team (excluding the Design Operations Lead) to foster growth and innovation. Driving Business Transformation: Influence our digital transformation, making design principles and user-centric methodologies fundamental to our digital product strategy. Foster a close relationship with the Design Operations Lead, translating strategic visions into operational achievements and mapping out growth for the design function throughout the business unit. Qualifications: Proven senior design leadership experience, preferably in the digital healthcare sector. A track record of setting strategic directions and fostering innovation in a complex organizational landscape. An impressive portfolio that demonstrates success in leading high-performance design teams. A deep grasp of user-centric design principles, digital product development, and the role of design in driving business change. Experience in clinical and healthcare design is highly advantageous. Why Join Us: Stepping into the Head of Design role at Novo Development places you at the core of our digital evolution, leading a key team that transforms our business through strategic, innovative, and impactful design, and you will enjoy a great team of enthusiastic product professionals, transforming a purposeful, globally leading companies. Patients are waiting. Application: Design and digital innovation enthusiasts eager to redefine healthcare at Novo Development are encouraged to apply. Submit your resume and a cover letter detailing your design vision and leadership approach. For questions or to discuss the role in detail, contact Michael McKay, VP Digital Products, at . Deadline: 18th of April - screening and interviewing will be done on an ongoing basis. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. 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. Print job Send to e-mail

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