Senior P&O Business Partner (Kalundborg, Region Zealand, DK)

Your impact begins here  

As P&O Business Partner, you will be the trusted advisor to the Vice President of API Business Support and their leadership team, helping them lead well and perform at their best. Working largely on the shop floor in Kalundborg, you will coach leaders, strengthen daily ways of working and bring the people perspective into organisational change. Your impact will show in stronger leadership, clearer direction and a workplace where colleagues can contribute and grow.

What you’ll bring  

You are an HR generalist who is at home alongside business leaders, and you enjoy being close to the work.

5+ years of relevant HR experience, including 3+ years partnering with business leaders.

Experience working closely with leadership teams, with solid knowledge across HR and a focus on linking business strategy and organisational development.

Broad experience of developing leaders through coaching, sparring and feedback.

Specialist knowledge of performance management, including handling absence and performance cases.

Business and financial understanding from consulting, industry or a leadership role.

Excellent interpersonal skills, high integrity and the credibility to build trusting relationships.

Analytical, structured and operational: you make things happen, and stay ready for change.

Fluency in spoken and written English.

Useful, but not essential:

A postgraduate or master’s degree, or 5+ years of equivalent experience.

An HR professional certification.

Experience from the healthcare industry.

What you’ll do  

In partnership with the business and your P&O manager, you will help leaders and teams perform, with a strong presence on the shop floor.

Be a trusted advisor to the Vice President and Leadership Team, giving strategic sparring and helping them sharpen their own thinking.

Coach leaders on personal leadership and skills, and help them reflect on how they lead.

Develop and sustain shop floor management by coaching leaders in the daily diary, covering structure, process, tools, behaviour and leadership.

Strengthen Leadership Team performance and a clear framework for evaluating and reviewing leaders, and support how The Novo Way shows up in everyday behaviour.

Plan and run core people processes , including goal setting, the salary and bonus review, engagement, talent management and individual development plans.

Identify the need for organisational change, bring the people perspective into it and facilitate strategy discussions. You will also lead cross-organisational projects and own a process within API P&O Manufacturing.

Collaboration and strong partnerships are at the heart of this role. Therefore, we expect you to work onsite in Kalundborg 4–5 days per week, enabling close collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders.

Who you’ll work with  

You will join API P&O Manufacturing HR Business Partnering and report to the Associate Director, P&O Business Partnering. You will provide HR support to API Business Support and one department in API IO M4. You will be based on site in Kalundborg, where your day-to-day partners are the Vice President, the Leadership Team and managers across the area.

Beyond the site, you will collaborate with fellow API P&O Business Partners, GMS P&O Business Partnering, the relevant P&O centres of expertise, Employee Relations, COHS and union representatives. Competing priorities and different expectations will be part of the job. You will bridge them, keep messages aligned and help decisions move forward with clarity and speed.

Hiring manager: Jan Drehn, Associate Director P&O Business Partner, JDRH@novonordisk.com.

What you can expect here  

You will have real influence in a complex environment: trusted to work independently, represent the Vice President’s area across the wider API organisation and address dilemmas professionally and diligently. You will help shape the processes and ways of working that affect the area and API more broadly.

You will grow through leadership development work in the Business Support Leadership Team and across P&O Business Partnering and be supported to perform at your best while being trusted to take ownership.

What we offer ​  

At Novo, you’ll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.​

Salary:   For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600.00 to 1,091,600.00 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.​

Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.​

Learn more about our Reward Philosophy here .​

Start now  

Your impact begins today. If you are ready to help leaders in Kalundborg lead with clarity and make progress that lasts, apply for the P&O Business Partner role by November 22 nd 2026.

Lasting health starts now, and it takes people who help others do their best work.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.