Digital Innovation Hub Lead

**Digital Innovation Hub Lead - LATAM**

Do you wish to play a key role in driving adoption of emerging digital technologies and open innovation in Novo Nordisk? Can you imagine yourself working in the definition of the building blocks of external collaborations with start-ups and other unconventional partnerships in digital healthcare across LATAM? We are looking for a professional able to help launching and building our LATAM Innovation Hub.

**The Position**

The Digital Innovation Hub Lead is going to be part of a Regional Team with continuous global growing. While your main goal is to increase the number of partnerships established with start-ups across the global, you will also setup the LATAM Digital Innovation Hub, connecting to regional and local business units, roll out our accelerator and open innovation processes, besides being a key part in developing and delivering each step of the projects.

You will have a key role from managing the projects to handling relevant projects, guiding the digital innovation team, coordinating the hub with other leads around the world and delivering complex tasks.

This Lead should be able to convincingly and clearly communicate to stakeholders across the business and act as a trusted advisor with a strong understanding of business challenges and constraint, and also to be comfortable organizing information, gathering learnings and sharing those learnings among the organization.

**Qualifications**

We are looking for a person with experience and passion for driving startup support programmes and engage stakeholders in complex environments. You should be able to tailor messages to relevant stakeholders from various levels of authority.
- We expect that you hold a Graduation Degree and have solid experience working with project management. A relevant Master’s degree in technology with relevant innovation management connection is a plus.
- Experience building and leading digital innovation teams
- Knowledge and passion for digital trends.
- You should also be well-articulated, having at least 2 of the following business skills (oral and written): English, Spanish and Portuguese, being English mandatory.
- it will be a plus if you had the opportunity to work in consulting, startups, venture capital company and with digital healthcare. Also with an experience running incubation or acceleration programmes in complex structures and managing projects and pilots.

**About the Department**

The Digital Innovation Hubs are a global initiative with a strong anchoring in the Hub regions. The Hub in Latam is a joint effort of Global IT, International Operations and Region Latam, and is led by the Business Innovation Garage, based in Denmark, with a strong link with Digital Data and IT in Latam. The Business Innovation Garage is high growth unit in Novo Nordisk. The team itself is a part of Digital Incubator & Innovation area. The Core focus is to remain forward-looking and showcase strong adaptability.

**Working at Novo Nordisk**

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize 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 to change the lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further.

**Deadline**

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.