P&O Business Partnering Director

P&O Business Partnering Director
Are you a true people leader and a strategic thinker with a strong interest in translating business needs into relevant actions and making things happen as a team? Are you known for your ability to build strong and trusting relations with the people you work with? Can you provide high quality sparring and coaching on P&O Business Partnering and develop capabilities within this discipline in line with evolving business needs? 

If so, this is your chance to join our global P&O community and become Director of P&O Business Partnering in Development!

The position
This is a newly established leadership role where you will be both an active P&O Business Partner to a senior leadership team in a business area as well as become direct people leader for a group of talented P&O Business Partners. Furthermore, you will be responsible for driving key P&O initiatives across the EVP area Development. You will report to the VP, Head of P&O Development.

In the leadership role, you will provide direction, coaching and sparring to the P&O Business Partners in your team whose members will cover different areas in Development. You will create an inclusive environment, drive team collaboration and prioritisation to ensure aligned and impactful P&O Business Partnering across. Furthermore, you will be part of setting the strategic P&O direction for Development in close collaboration with the Head of P&O.

In the P&O Business Partner role, you act as a strategic sparring partner for a senior leadership team, and will be responsible for enabling the P&O strategy locally as well as driving the annual P&O wheel and relevant activities. This includes:

• Organisational development and effectiveness
• Strategic workforce planning
• Change management
• Talent management & development
• Culture and engagement
• Performance management
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Coaching and sparring with managers/leaders

                                                                               
Qualifications
The ideal candidate is an emphatic leader, strong strategist, and a pragmatic executor. You are an acknowledged team player with high personal integrity, offering your perspectives respectfully. As an individual, you have the ability to drive things forward and create value for any project or team. You have strong prioritisation skills.

To succeed in this role the following qualifications is an advantage:
 

• Demonstrated people leadership skills and experience
• Passion for developing people and joint organisational practices
• Experience working in a large and global organisation
• Solid experience as an HR Business Partner
• A relevant academic degree in HR, Organisation, Business Psychology, Business Administration or similar.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to navigate effectively across the organisation

• Structured planner who is assertive, yet able to listen and set boundaries in a respectful manner

• Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities do not apply unless they are 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we ask you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think.

About the P&O Team
The P&O team for Development consists of 14 highly engaged colleagues. Despite reporting lines, we want to work as One Team and aim to provide enterprise, scalable P&O solutions to the business with a close eye on implementing those in a meaningful way in the local business areas. We dedicate time to provide sparring to each other in the team to continuously develop our P&O skills.

About Development business area

Our colleagues in Development strive to deliver best-in class, innovative treatment solutions to the benefit of patients. They are responsible for managing development and approval of new drugs and devices worldwide, from early development phases to product launch and beyond. They provide medical and scientific expertise and documentation for authorities and decisions makers broadly, while ensuring that the process lives up to global standards, regulations, and business ethics.

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 VP, Head of P&O Development, Mette Borg Larsen at [email protected]

Deadline
10 March 2024. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include some lines about your motivation for this role in your CV and highlight relevant experience. In addition, please avoid the use of photos in your CV. This makes for a better and more fair process. 

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.