Lead Finance Partner

Lead Finance Business Partner
Supply Chain Finance | Supply Chain | Business Support | Supply Chain & Lifecycle Management | Global Manufacturing & Supply | Taastrup, Denmark

Are you an experienced Finance Business Partner ready to influence strategic decisions across a global manufacturing organisation? Do you thrive on partnering with senior leaders, leading complex financial planning and helping shape the future direction of a business?

If so, you could be our new Lead Finance Business Partner within Supply Chain Finance at Novo Nordisk.

Your new role

As our new Lead Finance Business Partner, you will become a trusted advisor to senior leaders across the supply chain organisation, playing a pivotal role in financial planning, strategic decision-making and operational excellence.

Working closely with the Head of Supply Chain Finance, you will act as a trusted advisor and informal leader within the team, helping coordinate priorities, provide direction across key financial processes and support the delivery of strategic initiatives across the SVP organisation.

This is an opportunity to influence business direction, support major transformation programmes and make a lasting impact across one of Novo Nordisk's most important business areas.

You will be responsible for translating complex financial and operational data into clear business insights that enable senior leaders to make informed decisions and deliver long-term value.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading financial planning, forecasting and reporting activities across the SVP area.


• Driving strategic resource allocation and challenging assumptions to ensure a strong alignment with business priorities.


• Creating financial transparency around organisational growth, productivity, headcount, cost drivers and overall business performance.


• Consolidating financial plans and producing clear executive-level recommendations that support senior decision-making.


• Partnering with senior stakeholders across planning, supply chain design, sourcing, logistics, distribution and manufacturing.


• Acting as a trusted finance advisor, confidently influencing and constructively challenging senior leaders.


• Providing informal leadership across the finance team by coordinating priorities, supporting colleagues and helping deliver key business objectives.


• Leading or supporting strategic initiatives including productivity programmes, digital transformation, artificial intelligence, shared services and broader supply chain transformation projects.


• Driving continuous improvement across financial processes, reporting, and data quality.


• Championing a culture of collaboration, accountability and operational excellence.


• Initially, your primary focus will be financial planning, reporting and resource allocation. As you become established within the organisation, you will progressively take ownership of larger strategic and transformational programmes.

Your new department

You will join Supply Chain Finance within supply chain business support, supporting a global organisation of approximately 2,000 colleagues.

The function partners with stakeholders across planning, supply chain design, manufacturing, contract manufacturing, logistics and distribution, helping connect financial strategy with operational execution across a critical part of Novo Nordisk.

This is a highly visible role, offering extensive exposure to senior leaders while providing an excellent platform for future leadership opportunities within Finance.

Your skills and qualifications
To succeed in this role, you combine strong financial expertise with commercial curiosity, strategic thinking and the confidence to influence senior stakeholders across a complex global organisation.

We imagine you have:

• A degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration or another relevant discipline.


• Significant experience within Finance Business Partnering, FP&A, Supply Chain Finance, Commercial Finance or a related finance function.


• Strong experience leading financial planning, forecasting and budgeting activities.


• A solid understanding of supply chain or manufacturing business drivers and their financial impact.


• The ability to translate complex financial information into clear insights that support decision-making.


• Proven experience influencing and constructively challenging senior stakeholders.


• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across multiple business functions.


• Experience working with ERP and Business Intelligence systems such as SAP, Power BI, Tableau or Alteryx.


• Strong analytical, financial modelling and presentation skills.


• A genuine interest in digitalisation, artificial intelligence and modern finance technologies.


• A proactive, collaborative and structured approach with the ability to manage multiple priorities.


• Fluency in written and spoken English.


• Previous pharmaceutical experience is not essential. We welcome candidates from complex international organisations within industries such as: FMCG, Manufacturing, Automotive, Chemicals, Medical Devices.


• Experience operating within fast-moving organisations where scenario planning, agility and continuous improvement are central to decision making would be highly advantageous.

Why Novo Nordisk
Every day, we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward.

For more than 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on creating lasting change for long term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Working at Novo Nordisk means joining a global healthcare company with more than 100 years of innovation and a clear purpose: improving the lives of people living with serious chronic diseases.
 
We offer exciting scientific challenges, opportunities for continuous learning and career development, and the chance to collaborate with talented colleagues across our global manufacturing network.
 
Salary and benefits 
For this role, the annual base salary ranges from DKK 742,600 to 1,091,600, depending on your experience and competencies.

Incentives and benefits: The package may include short- and/or long-term incentives as well as additional employee benefits, aligned with the position level, location, and market benchmarks. 
 
What we offer
There is of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.