Senior Impact Partner

Do you want to play a key role in ensuring that the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s philanthropic grants and investments create real and lasting societal impact?

We are looking for a Senior Impact Manager to support the development of NNF’s mission driven portfolio management.

The position is placed in the Impact & Portfolio Department and operates at the intersection of strategic impact and portfolio management, including data-driven support of NNF’s impact missions, and a proactive role in the support of project excellence.

About the role

As Senior Impact Manager, you will help ensure that NNF’s impact missions, objectives and outcome targets are robust and validated.

As such, you will become part of a catalytic hub function working across the organisation, and together with colleagues in the department you will support our leadership with data driven analyses and evidence-based recommendations.

At the same time, you will actively contribute through hands on project management, helping to ensure that NNF is both doing the right projects and doing the projects right.

Key responsibilities

You will contribute with data-based analyses and hands on project management, supporting the implementation of NNF’s strategy and its mission driven portfolio in close collaboration with both our CXO Areas and other functional areas across the organisation.

This includes,

Data driven support of Impact Missions

• Qualify and validate mission purposes, objectives and outcome targets in close dialogue with business areas.
• Identify change enablers and Impact Pathways (projects/initiatives) based on data, evidence and logical linkages.
• Ensure coherence between strategic goals, societal impact and portfolio composition.

Mission driven portfolio governance

• Actively support NNF’s Portfolio Board, Executive Management and Board Secretariat with decision relevant input, including the support of criteria-based stage gate processes across the pipeline and portfolio.
• Deliver data-based insights and assessments to support leadership decision-making, including support to the development and use of scenarios and models that illustrate how the portfolio is progressing towards strategic objectives.
• Contribute to a more forward looking, coherent and transparent portfolio governance approach.

About you

We imagine that you:

• Have solid experience with project management and portfolio and/or impact work in complex organisations.
• Take a holistic approach and thrive at the intersection of data, strategy and leadership dialogue.
• Possess strong analytical capabilities and are able to translate complex issues into clear decision perspectives.
• Have organisational impact and can work effectively across disciplines and seniority levels.
• Are motivated by contributing to long term societal impact.

We offer

• A key position in one of Denmark’s largest philanthropic foundations.
• The opportunity to work close to strategic decision making and senior leadership.
• A strong and ambitious professional environment focused on learning, impact and quality.
• A role where you contribute directly to developing NNF as a mission driven, learning and impact-oriented organisation.

Working 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 opportunities to develop their potential. A career at the Novo Nordisk Foundation gives you the opportunity to work:  

• on important projects that benefit society;  

• with key actors within the areas of support; 

• and as part of a dedicated team that is passionate about creating value for society. 

Application and Information 
We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible as we will be taking interviews on a running basis. Please apply no later than 7 June 2026. First interviews will be held 12 June 2026.

To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, university grade transcript and other relevant documents by clicking the “Apply now” 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, to apply and advance regenerative medicine, and to advance knowledge and solutions that support a green transformation of society.