Product Owner - IT Backup Service

Product Owner - IT Backup Service

Shape the future of enterprise backup technology and safeguard the data that enables life-changing treatments to reach millions of patients.

Your new role

As Product Owner for the IT Backup Service, you'll own the product vision, roadmap and backlog for our organization's backup technology. You'll combine deep technical expertise in backup and cloud technologies with strong stakeholder management to ensure our service meets business continuity, compliance and operational objectives while driving continuous improvement and value delivery.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Defining and maintaining the product vision, strategy and roadmap for the IT Backup Service, aligned with business continuity, security and compliance goals
• Owning the product backlog by writing, prioritizing and refining user stories, acceptance criteria and non-functional requirements (RTO, RPO, retention, encryption, etc.)
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams and key stakeholders to ensure seamless service delivery and continuous improvement
• Defining and monitoring KPIs for the backup service to drive performance and reliability
• Ensuring compliance with regulatory and internal backup policies, including data residency, retention, encryption and audit capability
• Managing incident response involvement for major backup/recovery incidents, leading post-incident reviews and implementing preventive measures
• Communicating roadmap, status, risks and outcomes to senior management and stakeholders in clear, executive-level language.

Your new department

In Quality, IT and Environmental Affairs, you will be part of a business area that drives impact across the full Novo Nordisk value chain. We strive to stay close to our stakeholders in the business to ensure we deliver on their needs, helping reach millions of people living with serious chronic diseases. Our focus is on being at the forefront within our three areas; ensuring the highest quality for patients, being a trusted tech leader and an environmentally responsible business.

Within IT, you'll join a team dedicated to building and maintaining resilient, compliant and future-ready infrastructure services. The IT Backup Service is critical to our business continuity strategy, which supports our global operations. The team ranges from infrastructure architects to 1st-line support specialists, across different countries.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for a Product Owner who can bridge technical depth with strategic vision and stakeholder engagement. You'll bring with you:

• Strong technical background in backup and recovery technologies, with solid understanding of RPO/RTO, retention schemes, backup architecture, snapshots, replication and restore workflows
• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or Technical Lead for infrastructure or platform services in an enterprise environment
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical detail into executive-level communication and vice versa, ensuring clarity across all organizational levels
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to balance competing priorities and build consensus across diverse teams
• Excellent communication skills in English, both written and verbal
• Experience working within regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, SOX) in enterprise IT environments is a plus.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Every day we seek the solutions that defeat serious chronic diseases. To do this, we approach our work with determination, constant curiosity and a commitment to finding better ways forward. For over 100 years, this dedication has driven us to build a company focused on lasting change for long-term health. One where diverse thinking, shared purpose and mutual respect come together to create extraordinary results. Here, your technical expertise directly enables our mission – protecting the data and systems that help us deliver life-saving medicines to patients worldwide. When you join us, you're not just starting a job – you're becoming part of a story that spans generations.

Deadline

22 March 2026. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Assoc. Director Jannik Dunmose on +45-34442842.

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

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.