Director - Portfolio & Analysis

Are you ready to take on a key role in driving portfolio thinking and project excellence? Are you motivated by change, development, implementation, people and project management?
We are looking for an experienced and strategic minded profile to establish and head up our new unit Portfolio & Analysis. If you are ready to make a difference and contribute to our mission of defeating serious chronic diseases, read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position
The position is newly established, and you will have the opportunity to impact and develop the role together with your leader and the rest of organization by being responsible for establishing and maintaining the project and portfolio management methodology, ensuring adherence to standards, providing guidance, and training, and developing tools and templates. A major part of our deliverables is anchored at executive level, which requires the ability to challenge and collaborate across professional disciplines and functional areas, while also providing a high level of visibility, accountability and hands on interaction throughout the value chain. Key responsibilities include:

Driving change management assignments aimed at enhancing project management processes and mentoring the organization for effective portfolio execution

Implementing and continuous improving project management processes and tools ensuring project delivery and identifying potential bottlenecks and mitigations

Implementing state of the art portfolio management principles such as streamlined reporting, risk management and enterprise portfolio management system (pWr)

Providing insightful portfolio analysis and understanding of the development project pipeline towards senior management and governance

Managing change with various stakeholders, ensuring buy-in, commitment, and training to facilitate successful transformation

You will collaborate with other drug development portfolio management offices across the [xxxxx] organization.
Our working environment is flexible, dynamic and informal with a strong culture of cross-functional collaboration, where your contributions will be valuable and make a difference. We are committed to digitalization and automation and see these as key enablers to reach our strategic aspirations.
Qualification
The ideal candidate will have a balanced profile of scientific and strategic competences combined with strong execution skills and change management experience, navigating in a complex environment and driving impactful initiatives forward. To be successful in this role, you should have:

A master’s degree within a relevant field of expertise such as science, engineering, business

Several years’ experience in portfolio and project management frameworks, processes, and tools

Experience in working for big and complex companies

People leadership experience

Full English Proficiency

It will be seen as an advantage if you have been working in the pharma, biotech or similar preferably with roles in various areas of the value chain. On a personal level, you have excellent communication and presentation skills, capable of structuring material to enable efficient reporting and decision-making, while also tailoring the level of communication across stakeholders.
About the CVP area
Product Supply, Quality and IT (PSQIT) Development Product Portfolio (DPP) is a new area in PSQIT at [xxxxx], established to gather all portfolio management units from 'CMC Development & Scaling’ and across ‘Product Supply’ (PS). The purpose of the new area is to improve [xxxxx]’s ability to prioritize and develop our pipeline with a keen focus on product potential, manufacturability, scalability as well as future capacity needs in close collaboration with Global Supply Chain. The new organization will act as a single point of entry into PSQIT providing an end-to-end and seamless overview, ensuring commercial scalability and manufacturability is in focus from early development. We offer a modern and flexible working environment, giving everyone the opportunity to be themselves and do their best, whilst working with some truly talented colleagues. While we are dedicated to our tasks, we maintain focus on preserving a healthy work-life balance.
Working at [xxxxx]
At [xxxxx], 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 to manufacturing, marketing, market access, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact VP of DPP Excellence, Lau Brüniche-Olsen at +[xxxxx].
Deadline
30 June 2024 Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so please apply today.
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. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants. At [xxxxx] 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.