Total 2 job vacancies by Novo Holdings Equity Asia Pte. Ltd.

Main job tasks / responsibilities

Overall

• Support Novo Holdings Strategy Development and ensure a coherent overarching strategy
• Communicate Novo Holdings Strategy across teams to ensure full alignment of investment area strategies to house level strategies
• Run Strategy updates with individual investment areas independently ensuring alignment to house strategy
• Manage individual strategic initiatives/projects with input/execution from broad house stakeholder
• Identifying and implementing process improvement potential across investment teams through cross-standardisation and/or process development

Investment strategy

• Building a deeper macro understanding across the Asian geography, which feeds into decisions on where to invest (sector, geography)
  • Ground-up understanding on new markets, and validating the right approach to enter markets
  • Identifying Key risk considerations, that need to be mitigated strategically
  • Building a solid understanding of the regulatory/policy trends in the region, to inform investment decision making and strategy
  • Provide input to Partner Group and Asia head of P&O to translate strategy to needed capabilities in team

Asia Investments Value Creation Plan (VCP) approach:

• Drive discussions / workshops on how to improve VCP and codify new approach
• Support on ad hoc portfolio management engagements
• Design a structure for sourcing relevant analyses/input on/from portfolio companies

Support digital maturation

• Ensure easy access to macro/regulatory/risk data&insights to feed into investment processes and asset management
• Gathering use-cases from deal teams, which could be relevant for the digital team to support and liase with the central digital team

Support operational efficiency / maturation

• Facilitate improved intra Novo Holdings connectivity
• Document process in the Asia team and drive continuous improvements of processes
• Project Management of larger projects
• Support on presentations and facilitation of sessions at large events

Requirements

• Consultancy toolbox (Excel, PowerPoint) fully mastered and able to handle complex financial and market analytics
• Multiple engagements as part of the consultancy in developing Business Unit and Corporate Strategies
• Experience in driving in change processes (strategy execution)
• Able to drive and manage workstreams and projects independently with minimal guidance
• Able to facilitate workshops with larger groups of senior stakeholders independent
• Strong financial acumen
• Insights in Life Science technology/industry
• Experience in managing junior resources
• Danish and Scandinavian language (in writing and oral) essential in order to translate strategy and frameworks between headquarter and local entities
• Knowledge of Danish and Scandinavian investment landscape for sparring and collaboration between headquarter, local entities and portfolio companies

Job Description:

• Support the NH aspiration and operationalisation of Responsible Investments through the development of ESG tools, analyses and internal capability building.
• Offer deal support to investment teams, interact with portfolio companies and offer subject matter expertise on ESG.
• Drive planning and ownership of ESG and impact reporting.
• Develop and execute ESG training. Be a valuable sparring partner to Head of Sustainability & Impact on strategic and operational matters.
• Coordinate Jr Analyst.

Requirements:

• Knows what ‘leading’ looks like, including familiarity with international ESG standards and frameworks.
• Possesses strong analytical capabilities and can draw on former experience when defining new ESG analyses, processes, and approaches.
• Proactive in taking initiative to research and able to resolve issues with openness, innovation and responsiveness to the needs of colleagues.
• Capable of collaborating with internal and external stakeholders across professions and backgrounds.
• Project management capability and strategic outlook.
• Financial acumen and familiarity with investment types and asset classes.
• Good communication and listening skills, with the ability to clearly pass on information to stakeholders.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office; Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficiency in English, Danish and Scandinavian language (in writing and oral) essential in order to translate ESG standards and frameworks between headquarter and local entities.
• Knowledge of Danish and Scandinavian investment landscape for sparring and collaboration between headquarter, local entities and portfolio companies.