Personal Assistant to Corporate Vice President

Are you a proactive and detail-oriented person, thriving in a fast-paced environment? Do you enjoy organising, coordinating, and managing a wide range of tasks in close collaboration with the CVP and the CVP leadership team as well as the administrative team across the area? 

We are currently looking for a new Personal Assistant to the Corporate Vice President (CVP) of CMC API Development. If you are prepared to offer essential support to the CVP and contribute to the success of our business, we invite you to read on and apply today for a life-changing career!
 
The Position
In the role as CVP Personal Assistant in CMC API Development, you are offered a challenging and dynamic role. You will join the CMC API Development leadership team and regularly interact with the Strategic Business Partner, HR Business Partner, and other assistants throughout the area. Your primary responsibilities include providing administrative support to the CVP and proactively performing a diverse range of tasks including:

• Organising and coordinating department activities such as arranging management meetings, events as well as managing communications with internal and external stakeholders
• Managing ad hoc administrative tasks such as calendar management including travel and accommodation 
• Supporting recruitment and onboarding processes 
• Coordinating budgets 
• Fostering cross-functional collaborations as well ensuring a good administrative team across the area

This position also offers an opportunity to tailor the role according to your competencies and interests in alignment with the business needs.
 
Qualifications
To succeed in this position, we anticipate that you have a robust background as a Personal Assistant. You may have experience from a similar position, or you may be ready to take the next step in your career.
As a person, you are proactive, flexible and possess a strong can-do attitude. You are recognized as a positive and friendly colleague capable at building trusting relationships. You are great at creating structure, maintaining an overview, paying attention to the detail, and making sure that deadlines met.
Additionally, you have:

• Experience driving administrative processes, organizing tasks and managing complex calendars etc.
• Previous involvement in budget handling or you are curious to learn more
• IT-Skills such super user of MS Office 365 and potentially other Novo Nordisk IT-Systems
• Excellent communication skills with fluency in both written and spoken English

 
About the area
As part of Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply, IT and Quality organisation, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Development & Scaling makes a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop, manufacture, and distribute drug candidates for non-clinical and clinical trials and represent a strong culture with a “can do” mind-set.

API Development is a growing CVP area on exciting journey escalating the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) development and introducing new technologies to the area. We develop robust and reliable API processes for the entire Novo Nordisk drug candidate portfolio. We focus on innovation, quality and efficiency to improve the lives of patients.

 
Working at Novo Nordisk
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.

Contact
If you have any questions about the job, do not hesitate to contact HR Business Partner, Linda Søborg Mørck Jensen, 3448 4322.
 
Deadline
May 20, 2024. 
We will review applications as they are received, so do not hesitate to apply as soon as possible.
 
You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about your motivation to apply in your CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain adding a photo to your 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.