About this role
Your impact begins here As Associate Consumer Finance & Online Partnerships Director, you will build the financial foundation for how Novo grows online partnerships in Obesity across Europe and Canada (EUCAN). This is a newly created role: you will set up a European customer profit and loss view and a clear business case approach, so teams know where to invest and can track the return. You will turn complex analysis into decisions that help more people reach treatment.
What you’ll bring You thrive where commercial business development, consumer behaviour and financial decision making meet. You can build something new, influence without formal authority and turn complexity into action.
- A master’s degree in economics, business administration, finance or an equivalent field.
- Significant experience in commercial finance, business development, M&A finance, financial system change projects or customer profitability, including cross-country, regional or global exposure.
- Strong financial modelling and data interpretation skills.
- Practical experience in pricing, negotiation, customer profitability and stakeholder management in a large organisation.
- Experience bringing structure to new business areas, setting clear priorities and steering the business through influence and relationships.
- The ability to turn complex analysis into clear recommendations and to build new capabilities, standards and frameworks from the ground up.
- Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI, AI modelling, SAP and systematic data consolidation.
- Fluency in English.
- Useful, but not essential: Experience from consumer health companies, including private healthcare organisations.
- Additional languages.
- What you’ll do You will be the finance partner who helps Region Europe and Canada decide where to invest in online partnerships and consumer initiatives, and who shows what those investments deliver.
- Create the framework and shape commercial partnership priorities through sound financial modelling, working with business partners to assess partnership opportunities and consumer investment initiatives.
- Develop and deliver a business case methodology across European markets, so investment decisions are prudent, comparable and grounded in facts as part of the business rhythm.
- Establish an end-to-end view of customer and partner profit and loss, including system tracking and performance updates that follow return on investment.
- Deliver complex cross-functional change projects with Business Development, Finance, Legal, Supply Chain and Commercial Strategy to enable online sales in new European markets.
- Act as Commercial Finance Partner to the commercial unit for business development and to the UK affiliate.
- Improve data definitions, ownership, quality and comparability of online sales channels across markets.
Who you’ll work with You will join the Business Finance team in Region Europe and Canada (EUCAN), part of International Operations, reporting to the Director of Business Finance. The team is a key business partner to the Regional Leadership Team and the European sales affiliates. Day to day, you will collaborate with European sales affiliate offices, local finance and business development teams, and with colleagues in Marketing, Business Development and Commercial Excellence, Data, Insights & Analytics, Pricing and Access, and Supply Chain. You will build bridges between these functions, so every investment decision rests on evidence and aims to maximise patient reach. Working across markets, you will help drive both the online sales agenda and the consumer finance agenda in Obesity.
The role is based in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark. What you can expect here You will shape a new area from the start, with the trust to set direction and the visibility to influence decisions across European markets. Working with colleagues from finance, commercial, legal and supply chain, you will broaden your perspective across the value chain and build new skills through practical, cross-functional experience. You will be supported to perform at your best, with clear expectations and a culture that values honest input and follows through on decisions.
- Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 847,010.00 to 1,245,110.00 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position.
- The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.
Start now Your impact begins today. If you are ready to build the financial foundation for online partnerships across Europe, apply for the Associate Director, Consumer Finance & Online Partnerships role by 22 November 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.