Total 6 job vacancies by Novo Holdings

Investment Internship at Novo Holdings Asia in Singapore

We are looking for a curious and motivated Intern for our established investment team in Asia to support our venture, growth, and principal investment opportunities across life sciences and planetary health sectors at Novo Holdings.

Novo Holdings is one of the world’s largest life science investors and our portfolio spans the entire range of life science development – from early-stage research to large and mature commercial players. We see tremendous long term investment opportunities in Asia given the robust growth, demographics and the increased focus on innovation and R&D. Today we have built a portfolio of 15 high quality investments across various segments of healthcare, life sciences, and planetary health investments.

We work seamlessly across the different investment modalities, Ventures, Growth and Principal Investments. We offer a unique opportunity for personal and professional development in a dynamic, ambitious, and professional work environment.

The Internship

You will be part of the Investment team based in Singapore, assigned to cover either the life sciences or planetary health sector, and will be immersed in the investment process. Your core tasks will include:

• Contributing to financial analysis of potential investment cases through valuation models
• Helping to shape investment themes through primary and secondary industry research
• Conducting industry research on potential investments and the markets they operate in
• Collecting, structuring, and efficiently communicating information on potential or existing investments

Depending on your capabilities and interests, you will have ample opportunities to take on more tasks and responsibilities.

Professional & Personal Qualifications

We are looking for candidates currently enrolled in either a Bachelor's or Master's program, with strong academic results and have prior relevant internship experience at a Venture Capital, Private Equity, Investment Banking, or Financial Services company. You have a solid understanding of finance and accounting principles, along with proficiency in both Excel and PowerPoint.

You thrive in a challenging entrepreneurial environment and have a keen interest in the sustainable development ecosystem as well as technology. You are passionate and highly motivated to learn about investments and portfolio management and can grasp new ideas and concepts quickly.

Furthermore, you have:

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Fluency in English (Mandarin is an advantage)
• An ability to work independently and with a high degree of personal initiative and integrity
• An attitude of a strong team player with a high level of commitment and outstanding analytical skills
• Strong financial analysis, writing, and presentation skills
• Excellent attention to detail, capable of producing work that is thorough and organized
• Willingness to commit to preferably 6 months’ internship duration

Application and Information
Our preferred starting date is January 2025. Please state your availability clearly in your application (start date and end date).

We encourage you to submit your CV and application as soon as possible or before 24 Nov 2024. Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis. To apply, please send your CV, application, and university transcripts by clicking the “Apply” button.

About Novo Holdings A/S

Novo Holdings is a holding and investment company that is responsible for managing the assets and the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic enterprise foundations. We are the controlling shareholder of Novo Nordisk A/S and Novonesis, and manages an investment portfolio with a long-term return perspective.

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life sciences investor. Through its Seeds, Venture, Growth and Principal Investments teams, Novo Holdings invests in life science companies at all stages of development. As of year-end 2023, Novo Holdings had Total Assets under Management of DKK 1,114 bn (€149 bn).

We are a team of 180 professionals from various nationalities and diverse backgrounds, all sharing the same mission: to invest for the benefit people and the planet. Our company culture is characterized by collaboration, respect and inclusion.

We are headquartered north of Copenhagen in Hellerup, alongside the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and have offices in London, Boston, San Francisco, Shanghai and Singapore.

For further information visit www.novoholdings.dk

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.

Do you have an eye for detail and thrive in providing excellent service? For this role, we are looking for an Administrative Assistant who is collaborative, organized and has excellent communication skills.

Working closely with our Office Manager, you will provide administrative support to senior leaders and multi-functional teams to ensure our office, meetings, events and activities are executed at a high quality with accuracy and efficiency.

The Job

Core Responsibilities include:

• Calendar scheduling and secretarial support for leadership team members and/or senior leaders.
• Support travel and visa arrangements and manage expense reports
• Manage invoices and billings to process in the internal online systems
• Coordinate team meetings and processes (e.g. schedule team meetings, updating organization charts, budget tracking)
• Perform efficient documentation and filing
• Liaise with external parties (e.g. candidates, suppliers, visitors, etc)
• Provide professional office hospitality to visitors and guests.
• Assist in logistic support and organisation of corporate events, conferences, business lunches/dinners, and regional/management meetings.
• Requisite and purchase of office and pantry supplies
• Co-ordinates daily administrative functions for the team and performs other ad hoc duties as and when required eg. assistance with presentations, managing business contact database
• Organise and handle regional meetings and senior management visits

• Minimum Diploma Holder
• At least 5 years secretarial/office administration experience serving Executives in multi-national environments
• Excellent communication skills and strong proficiency in English (both written and spoken)
• Teamplayer and collaborative
• Strong organization and follow through skills
• Meticulous and organized; Able to meet multiple deadlines with excellence
• Pro-active and able to deliver tasks with a sense of urgency
• Should be experienced in administrative support, and comfortable working with Microsoft Outlook and Office applications
• Ability to work across cultures and with diverse range of people
• Able to work well under pressure and multi-task with frequent interruptions and changing priorities
• Proven ability to maintain confidentiality and discretion
• Detail oriented, willing to learn, self-driven, highly motivated individual with positive energy

Working at Novo Holdings

Novo Holdings is a holding and investment company that is responsible for managing the assets and the wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic enterprise foundations. We are the controlling shareholder of Novo Nordisk A/S and Novozymes A/S, and manages an investment portfolio with a long-term return perspective.

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life sciences investor. Through its Seeds, Venture, Growth and Principal Investments teams, Novo Holdings invests in life science companies at all stages of development. As of year-end 2023, Novo Holdings had Total Assets under Management of DKK 1,114 bn (€149 bn).

We are a team of 180 professionals from various nationalities and diverse backgrounds, all sharing the same mission: to invest for the benefit people and the planet. Our company culture is characterized by collaboration, respect and inclusion.

We are headquartered north of Copenhagen in Hellerup, alongside the Novo Nordisk Foundation, and have offices in London, Boston, San Francisco, Shanghai and Singapore.

For further information visit www.novoholdings.dk

Application and Information

We encourage you to send your application as soon as possible and before 16 June 2024.

To apply, please send in your CV by clicking on the "Apply" button. 

Are you looking to be part of an ambitious journey to shape the future of health, societal sustainability, and planetary wellbeing? Then, this job might be for you!  

We are looking for an experienced Tax Manager to contribute to Novo Holdings and Novo Nordisk Foundation’s ramp up in Asia.

Novo Holdings is a holding and investment company that is responsible for managing the assets and wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world’s largest enterprise foundations.

We are a world-leading life science investor, driven by the purpose of improving people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet. Since 1999 we have been investing to promote groundbreaking solutions in healthcare and bio-sustainability while generating attractive returns that advance the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s grant-giving activities - supporting scientific, humanitarian, and social causes. As of year-end 2022, Novo Holdings had total assets of EUR 108 billion.

We established our Asian life sciences investment platform in 2020 with an office in Singapore, expanded to Shanghai in 2022, and have a planned 3rd office in Asia. Our teams invest in healthcare companies across the continent. We see tremendous long-term investment opportunities in Asia given the dynamic region and fast-growing life science sector. In Asia, we have built a portfolio of more than 12 high quality investments across various segments of healthcare, life science, and planetary health.

The Job

As Tax Manager, you will support the Head of Tax in managing all tax aspects in Asia related to Novo Holdings investment activities, as well as the tax aspects of new strategic initiatives and corporate structure for the Novo Nordisk Foundation. You will:

• Drive selected tax compliance processes and internal controls in for Novo Holdings and Novo Nordisk Foundation.
• Provide timely tax support to the investment teams throughout the investment process and independently manage all tax aspects related to Novo Holdings investment activities in Asia.
• Provide advice in relation to new investments and corporate structures from a tax perspective and drive selected tax due diligence processes.
• Ensure tax risks and opportunities are well understood, monitors the quality of technical advice/opinions, and tax ruling submissions.
• Implement and maintain tax policies and guidelines in internal investment processes.
• Drive tax compliance processes and internal controls in Asia.
• Monitor and drive compliance with corporate tax legislation in all relevant jurisdictions.
• Have extensive knowledge on financial legislative issues, within taxation.
• Proactively monitor changes on tax laws or administrative practice on relevant to investments in Asia across different investment types (direct investments, co-investments and funds).
• Identify best-in-class tax advisors to support the specific needs of the investment teams and maintain external partnerships to ensure advisors deliver the best service.
• Support the Head of Tax on the Responsible tax agenda.
• Participate in the technology initiatives for process improvement, proactively streamlining procedures and reporting.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with colleagues from Finance, legal and other Corporate Services functions.
• From time to time, you may be required to collaborate on an ad-hoc basis with other Finance Teams (i.e. Accounting, Investment Operations).

In this role, you will be reporting to the Head of Tax (based in Denmark) and Managing Partner, Head of Asia (based in Singapore).

• ·A minimum of 8 years’ investment-related tax experience in Asia.
• A Bachelor degree in Accounting/Law/Economics/Business Administration or comparable professional qualifications.
• Experience in investments / private equity industry or similar is strongly preferred.
• High level of IT skills within Microsoft office; Excel and PowerPoint in particular.
• A self-starter with ability to drive and manage workstreams independently with minimal guidance.
• Demonstrated a hands-on approach to and success in working in a team-based environment.
• Attention to detail and high level of accuracy in quality of work.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ambitious, proactive and with a structured approach to task-handling and problem-solving.
• Intellectual quickness, curiosity, discipline, resourcefulness, and resilience.

Working at Novo Holdings

Our work environment is driven by purpose and values, and we strive to be recognised by our stakeholders and people as an exceptional enterprise. We offers a unique opportunity to work at an impactful and visionary organisation that provides resources and staying power to pursue substantial proposals that enable us to meet our strategic goals.

You will enjoy the opportunity to be part of a dedicated, international and dynamic team with diverse backgrounds and be trusted with significant operational freedom. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive workplace, and therefore recruit with the purpose of hiring the best talent who can contribute with their unique perspectives and experience to make a positive impact on people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet.

We employ over 160 professionals from various nationalities and backgrounds, all sharing the same goal: to generate attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Our teams operate from offices in Copenhagen, London, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore and Shanghai.

Application and Information

If you have any questions please contact Head of Tax, Emil Christensen at e-mail: ech@novo.dk

We encourage you to apply as soon as possible and no later than 7 March 2024. To apply, please send your CV by clicking on the “Apply” button.

For further information visit www.novoholdings.dk

Are you looking for an exciting career opportunity where you can make substantial, positive impact on health, science and society by generating attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation?

We are looking for an Associate to join our growing team in Singapore!

Novo Holdings Asia is looking for an ambitious and proactive Associate to take part in the identification, negotiation, and due diligence processes of investment opportunities within the healthcare and life science industry across the Asia Pacific region. In this role, you will be part of the established investment team in making value-creating investments in healthcare and life science companies.

Novo Holdings is a world-leading life science investor with offices in Copenhagen, London, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore, and Shanghai. Our portfolio spans the entire range of life science development – from early-stage research to large and mature commercial players. Novo Holdings’ purpose is to be a supportive owner of the Novo Group companies and to make a growing and positive impact on health, science, and society by generating attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

We established our Asian life sciences investment platform in 2020, with offices in Singapore and expanded to Shanghai in 2022. Our teams invest in healthcare companies across the continent. We see tremendous long term investment opportunities in Asia given the dynamic region and fast-growing life science sector. In Asia, we have built a portfolio of more than 10 high quality investments across various segments of healthcare, life science, and bioindustrials. Our goal is to increase this significantly and we are looking for a fantastic team member to join us on this journey.

The Job
You will be working out of the Singapore office, in close collaboration with colleagues globally. As an Associate, you will help ensure that the investment team is well-informed and well-prepared for making investment decisions and create a strong network across the region. The team in Singapore focuses on growth- and principal investments and across subsectors within the life sciences and bioindustrials.

Your tasks will include:

·       Evaluating new investment opportunities

·       Performing financial due diligence and modelling business cases

·       Creating financial models to assess new potential and current investments

·       Preparing internal investment documentation and presentations for the governing bodies of Novo Holdings

·       Expanding industry expertise through conducting desktop research and expert calls, and attending relevant conferences

·       Monitoring and reporting on portfolio companies

Further to this, you will collaborate with other departments and teams located in Copenhagen, Shanghai, San Francisco, Boston, and London on investment projects.

The ideal candidate has a bachelor’s degree or beyond from a top-tier institution and 1-2 years’ relevant working experience at a top investment bank, leading consultancy, private equity or investment firm. We are looking for a strong investment professional withan interest in life sciences.

Experience from life science private equity, business development or consultancy will be an advantage, but not a requirement.

 In addition, we imagine that you have:

·       A bachelor’s  degree or beyond  from a top-tier institution in Finance or Economics; a graduate degree within science would be an added advantage

·       Excellent analytical skills, comprehensive understanding of valuation and financial modelling

·       Industry and investment expertise within healthcare IT, pharma services, MedTech, and biotech is a plus

·       Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills

·       Fluency in English, oral and written.

·       High level of IT skills, in particular creating PowerPoint presentations and Excel models/analyses

As a person, you are outgoing and confident with managing a wide variety of stakeholders. Further to this, you are independent in your working style and aim to always deliver at a high quality. You always maintain a high level of professionality and integrity and seek to provide input on issues relating to investment projects and opportunities. Finally, we imagine that you are curious and intellectual with a desire to make a positive impact on society.

Working at Novo Holdings
Our work environment is driven by purpose and values, and we strive to be recognised by our stakeholders and people as an exceptional enterprise.

We employ over 160 professionals from various nationalities and backgrounds, all sharing the same goal: to generate attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation.

Application and Information
We encourage you to apply as soon as possible and no later than 12 February 2024. To apply, please send your CV, cover letter, and transcripts from university and onwards by clicking on the “Apply” button.

About Novo Holdings

The purpose of Novo Holdings is to improve people’s health and the sustainability of society and the planet by generating attractive long-term returns on the assets of the Novo Nordisk Foundation and to be a supportive owner of the Novo Group companies.

Novo Holdings is a holding and investment company that is responsible for managing the assets and wealth of the Novo Nordisk Foundation, one of the world’s largest enterprise foundations.

Novo Holdings is the controlling shareholder of Novo Nordisk and Novozymes (the Novo Group companies) and manages an investment portfolio with a long term return perspective. Novo Holdings invests in life science companies at all stages of development and, in addition, manages a broad portfolio of equities, bonds, real estate and infrastructure assets as well as private equity investments. Novo Holdings operates from offices in Copenhagen, London, Boston, San Francisco, Singapore and Shanghai.

As of year-end 2022, Novo Holdings had total assets of EUR 108 billion.

For further information visit www.novoholdings.dk