Agile People Leader for Cloud & Corporate Infrastructure (Denmark, Ballerup)

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Ballerup, Denmark

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Project Management & Agile

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Are you an experienced leader within IT in a global organization? Do you have a passion for developing and bringing out the best in people? Can you help grow and mature a strong, global infrastructure organization to deliver stable operations globally in a fast-paced environment?

Cloud & Corporate Infrastructure (CCI) is searching for a strong People Leader to lead and grow a team of 15-20 dedicated infrastructure specialists. Apply today!

The position
As our new People Leader (PL) you will play a key role in ensuring strong change management, help design clear organizational processes, motivate and develop our people, and ensure focus on operational stability. You will report to the VP of Cloud & Corporate Infrastructure.

The product teams in Cloud & Corporate Infrastructure are co-led. As a People Leader you hold the line management responsibility for the employees in Denmark, who report to you. The Product Owners reporting to you hold functional product responsibility, direct the work of the product teams, and ensure clear product strategy and priorities. The functional leadership of product owners is handled by Product Managers who, like you, are also part of the ART leadership team.

Hence, the teams you will be leading are not just your teams but our teams. The idea of co-leading teams must sit well with you. There will be tasks you do alone, but the most exciting tasks are those we collaborate on and complete together.

Additionally, your key responsibilities will include:

• Long-term competency and skills development, such as people career development and motivation including coaching and mentoring

• Foster diversity, inclusion and high performance

• Annual FTE budget planning based on capacity needs and ensuring short- and long-term capacity plan for the team

• Strategic workforce planning, ensuring our organization and your team are ready for future needs

• Building strong personal and professional competencies in our team to deliver on our ambitious strategy

• Understanding trends and building domain knowledge in the broader infrastructure space including SAP, on prem services and network.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect you to tick most of the following:

• An academic background in a relevant field e.g. Business, IT, Engineering, HR or Computer Science

• At least 3 years of experience leading and managing IT teams, and 5 years of experience preferably in infrastructure, cloud/hosting, SAP or similar where the work combines operations and development

• Strong Coaching and Team Building Skills

• Performance management, goal setting and naturally foster a feedback culture.

• Experience with supporting a transformation through personal advocacy, engagement, stakeholder management and leadership

• Certification or practical experience with Agile methodologies

On a personal level you have an inclusive mindset and have a focus on diversity. You are using your empathy to ensure a sustainable work environment, building trust, empowering and motivating teams and accelerating people's development. You are proactive, can ask for help and comfortable in setting direction. You are fluent in written and spoken English.

About the department
The position is based in Cloud & Corporate Infrastructure (CCI) which is a department in Global IT Operations (GITO). GITO is an area with 450+ employees distributed across more than 25 countries, managing Novo Nordisk infrastructure operations, service desk and digital workplace services globally. In CCI we are inspired by agile methodologies and the SAFe framework. As an agile People Leader, you will become part of the ART Leadership team together with fellow People Leaders in DK, US and India, Product managers, Release Train Engineer, System Architects, and the CCI VP. We are a strong leadership team of 15 people who value honesty, humor, transparency and efficiency.

You will be leading groups of highly skilled and dedicated employees employed in the area of SAP, network expansion projects, Quality and Hybrid Platforms. The profiles include infrastructure architects and engineers as well as Product Owners, quality professionals and project managers based in Denmark. The department structure is newly established, and your team has been designed to cater for the growth across several product teams. Hence your team members belong to several different product delivery teams.

We are embracing new ideas on how to successfully deliver our products, services and projects and introduce new ways of working. Currently our organization is undergoing rapid growth, and we work hard to enable the expansion of Novo Nordisk by delivering the required infrastructure.

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact
For further information, please contact VP Michael Brandt Lassen at +45 3075 1747 or People Leader Naresh Veethividangan at +45 3075 1368.

Deadline
13 October 2024

You are encouraged to include a few sentences about why you are applying in your CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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.