Senior Operations Strategy Manager

Facility:
Business Development & Strategy

Location:

Plainsboro, NJ, US

About the Department

The Strategy & Executive Office (SEO) organization is responsible for setting the short, mid, and long-term strategy for Novo Nordisk, Inc and ensures flawless execution of our key priorities. This encompasses long-term strategic planning, empowering and supporting leaders to successfully execute on strategic priorities, as well as driving and delivering high impact enterprise and business unit projects deemed critical to our future success.

Furthermore, the Executive Office is responsible for supporting the President of NNI directly to ensure the pull through of priorities to set the direction for the entire organization.

The Position

Responsible for managing defined parts of strategy processes (both development, activation and implementation) of the overall company strategy for US Operations (USO) to drive sustainable growth. You will manage parts of the enterprise level strategy, ensuring together with your leaders that strategic ambition, priorities and enablers are connected and translated throughout the organization. In this role you will support defining USO's future direction, use scenario planning and stress testing to evaluate alternatives and surface trade-offs to help senior leaders make the hard choices that secure a sustainable, high impact future.

You will convert strategic priorities into actionable initiatives with clear owners, timelines and success metrics, embed change management to drive adoption and partner with Finance to align investments and track benefits. Acting as the bridge across commercial, medical, access, supply and operations, you will ensure all parts of the value chain come together under one cohesive strategy, working closely with the Director, US Operations Strategy, to integrate strategic shifts into our strategy management processes.

Relationships

Reports to Director, US Operations Strategy. Internal interactions may include Executive Team, Executive Office, USO Lleadership, functional leads, Corporate Strategy and other HQ counterparts to ensure strategic coordination across Novo Nordisk. External relationships may include interactions with various subject matter experts and vendors based on the needs of special projects or implementation of new programs.

Essential Functions

• Company level strategy ownership: manage selected parts of the US Operations (USO strategy, maintaining the central strategy repository, governance cadence and alignment between strategic ambition, priorities and organizational enablers
• Project Managed work streams under the strategic roadmap development: create and evolve parts of the 3–5 years strategic roadmap that defines USO’s future direction, identifies enterprise opportunities and aligns mid /long term ambitions with business priorities
• Ecosystem insight and risk assessment: monitor the healthcare ecosystem (regulatory, technology, market, competitor) and translate external trends into strategic implications; identify and assess enterprise risks and recommend mitigations
• Scenario planning and decision support: build the assumptions supporting scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis and stress testing to evaluate alternatives, surface trade-offs and provide clear recommendations to enable senior leaders to make high impact choices for benefits of our patients
• Strategy activation and initiative delivery: support convert strategic priorities into actionable initiatives and operating plans with clear owners, timelines, success metrics and delivery governance; lead cross functional work streams to achieve results
• Change management and adoption: design and embed change management approaches…