Student Assistant for Business Support in Global Support Functions

Are you passionate about helping users, learning new skills, working structured and optimizing and improving current ways of working?

Do you thrive in a job where you have to interact, support and advise less IT-savvy people than yourself across several IT applications?

If so, now is your chance to join Ascendis Pharma as our new Student Assistant in Global IT.

Ascendis Pharma is a fast-growing biopharmaceutical company with locations in Denmark, Germany, the United States, UK, Italy, Spain, and France.

We are applying our TransCon® technology to build a leading, fully integrated biopharmaceutical company focused on making a meaningful difference in patients’ lives. Guided by our core values of Patients, Science, and Passion, we use our TransCon® drug development platform to fulfill our mission of developing new and potentially best-in-class therapies to address unmet medical needs.

We are seeking a passionate Student Assistant to join our growing team. As a Student Assistant in Global IT you will work with several System Mangers and be connected to Line Managers, Learning Admins, and Implementation Partners, and be involved in a variety of different IT applications, in particular the Learning Management System (LMS) and Adobe Sign. You will have a centralized role and you will build up expertise fast.

We will provide the needed training and mentoring to get you started and continuously add more to your skills. You will become part of an international team with a large network, and it will be a great opportunity for you to grow professionally and get your foot in the door to a great biotech company.

You will be joining the Global Support Functions, Global IT, and report directly to Line Benzin, System Manager, and Lene Larsen, People Leader, who are both based in Hellerup, Denmark. You will be based in Hellerup.

Your support tasks will be:

• Perform IT support in ServiceNow for different IT applications, in particular the Learning Management System (LMS) and Adobe Sign
• Help with quarterly SOX review and other repetitive review tasks
• In our Learning Management System:
• Schedule events and sessions
• Help with creating and managing purchase orders, work orders and contracts for both projects and maintenance
• Participate in improving existing applications in Global Functions - on request from the business
• Take part in projects helping SMEs with investigations, documentation, administration, planning etc.
• In general: Support and assist Global Support Functions with ad hoc tasks

Qualifications and Skills:

You hold a relevant academic degree – preferably you are in your third year of your Bachelor studies in the fields of Project Management, IT or something similar.

Furthermore, you have:

• Strong flair for IT and administration.
• The ability to keep an overview of many tasks at once.
• Structured and detail orientated.
• Strong communication skills.

Key competencies:

You are a team player, service-minded, and have a can-do attitude.

We expect you to be curious, eager to learn and loves to help others.

You can work independently with a task with little supervision, but at the same time have a well-developed intuition for when to ask for help. You have a doer mentality and are not afraid to learn from your mistakes.

You are conscientious about your tasks and can meet deadlines.

Work hours: 15 hours a week is expected, in peak times up to 20 hours a week. Since a part of Global Support Functions customers will be in US time zones your working hours will once a week be noon to late afternoon, and evening hours will also occur.

Office: Ascendis Pharma resides in a wonderful office facility in Tuborg Havn in Hellerup with a view of the harbor, the canals, and the sea.

Apply now.
Applications will be evaluated when received, so please apply as soon as possible.

All applications must be submitted in English and are treated confidentially.

For more details about the job or the company, please contact System Manager, Line Kok Jensen M +45 23 65 19 92 or [email protected] or People Leader Lene Larsen M +45 22 99 54 71 or [email protected].

Hellerup