Senior Business Development Manager - Innovation and Biosolutions

Are you passionate about working to create a more sustainable society via biosolutions? Would you like to be part of a dedicated pioneering team that will develop an impactful project for tomorrow’s biosolutions?

The Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Innovation department is looking for a Senior Business Developer with experience from life science and biosolutions to join a unique task force team, headed by a Project Director, dedicated to a pioneering exploratory pre-project on advancing precision fermentation in Denmark with the aim to facilitate the Green Transition.

In the Novo Nordisk Foundation, we strive to deliver the high-quality work necessary to make a difference and creating impact on sustainability, both in Denmark and globally. In the team we value feedback in a trust-based working environment. We value ambition, respect, accountability, creativity, common inspiration, teamwork, and motivation.

The Job

As Senior Business Development Manager, you will work closely with colleagues in-house and key external partners in the innovation ecosystem to prepare a playbook for advancing precision fermentation in Denmark. You will drive the business development contributing with your extensive business development skills and experience to create powerful value propositions for leading customers and prepare revenue and cost projections for the business case.

Your key tasks will be:

• Developing business models and value propositions for biosolutions to leading customers in the field
• Preparing revenue and cost projections for the business case
• Stakeholder interaction and management
• Coordinating and compiling input for a full project playbook to be presented for decision
• Project management

This is a temporary 18-month position with possibility of extension. Your primary workplace is onsite at the Novo Nordisk Foundation's offices in Hellerup, Denmark, with option for partly remote working conditions in agreement with the Project Director. Some travel activity should be expected (10-20 days/year).

Professional Qualifications

To thrive in this role, you must be motivated by working in a fast-paced team in collaboration with colleagues and external stakeholders.

We expect that you hold a master’s degree in business development or other relevant education related to business development, or master’s degree in a food or biosolution and fermentation related area combined with extensive business development experience and that you have 10 or more years of relevant work experience in academia or industry. 

Furthermore, we expect that you possess:

• Profound business development experience, preferably from B2B of food ingredients
• Understanding of the voice of the customer
• Ability to conduct complex analyses to provide actionable insights and fact-based recommendations
• Excellent ability to understand, analyse, structure and communicate large and complex project contents
• Excellent structured communication skills
• Proficient project management skills and experience related to the above
• Understanding the biosolution product space in the Danish ecosystem is a plus

Personal Qualifications

We envision that you have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build and maintain good relations and partnerships across the organisation and with external stakeholders. The preferred candidate is a team-player, while also being able to work fully independently.

We are looking for a colleague with the following qualities:

• Ambitious and motivated, with an including attitude
• Strong team spirit and a good colleague - also under pressure
• Highly accountable and trustworthy; driving self and others to deliver to deadline with highest quality
• Excellent at creating and keeping an overview
• Confident and able to manage several complicated workstreams simultaneously
• Resilient and thriving in a fast paced and changing environment
• And has a good sense of humour

Work at the Novo Nordisk Foundation

We offer a committed and professional workplace in which we emphasize ensuring that our colleagues thrive, are challenged, and have opportunity to develop their potential. A career at the Novo Nordisk Foundation gives you the opportunity to work: 

• on important projects that improves people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet.  
• with key actors within research and development in Denmark and internationally.
• and as part of a dedicated team that is passionate about creating impact.

Application and Information

For more information, please contact Project Director, Innovation, Henrik Højen Andersen, on email HHA@novo.dk. We encourage you to upload your application as soon as possible and no later than 26 February 2025. Interviews will be held on an ongoing basis and expected start date is 1 May 2025.

To apply, please upload your CV, cover letter, and University transcripts by clicking on the “Apply” button.

About the Novo Nordisk Foundation

Established in Denmark in 1924, the Novo Nordisk Foundation is an enterprise foundation with philanthropic objectives. The vision of the Foundation is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. The Foundation’s mission is to progress research and innovation in the prevention and treatment of cardiometabolic and infectious diseases as well as to advance knowledge and solutions to support a green transformation of society. 

In the coming years, the Foundation will broaden its scope and increase its grants for scientific, humanitarian, and social purposes, including solving the climate crisis and developing tomorrow’s food production. As a consequence, we are a growing organisation which means new job openings and exciting opportunities for employees to be part of forming the future of the Foundation.