Candidate Experience Coordinator - maternity cover part-time

Interested in a career that matters?

Use your coordination and facilitation skills to elevate our candidate experience.

In this maternity cover role, you’ll help ensure our candidate journey keeps moving - by coordinating projects, enabling recruiters and hiring managers, and supporting the continuous development of a strong and consistent candidate experience across Novonesis.

You’ll join a team that thrives on turning complex challenges into clear, actionable steps - and you’ll play a key role in helping initiatives land well across a broad stakeholder landscape.

Welcome to the Candidate Experience team
The Candidate Experience team leads the entire candidate journey for Novonesis - from employer branding and recruitment to preboarding and onboarding. We design and implement global concepts and tools, using strong analytical skills and a project-oriented mindset to transform complexity into tangible improvements.

We operate as a project management office dedicated to elevating candidate experience. Our core team meets weekly to synchronize priorities and drive progress. Our stakeholders span the organization and depending on project scope we collaborate with teams across Tech, Legal, Learning, Facilities, Brand & Communications, HR Business Partners and lines of business.

The role & your impact
In this role, you’ll make an impact by coordinating and implementing projects across Employer Branding, Recruitment and Onboarding, helping ensure our processes, tools, and communications support a consistent and high-quality experience for candidates and stakeholders. This role reports to the Head of Candidate Experience.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating and implementing projects within the Candidate Experience portfolio (Employer Branding, Recruitment & Onboarding)
• Creating and coordinating training and training materials for Recruiters and Talent Acquisition Partners based on process guidelines
• Maintaining and rolling out hiring manager guidelines, templates, and communication materials
• Supporting digitalization initiatives related to the recruitment process and HR process improvements
• Coordinating development and implementation of Employer Branding materials
• Facilitating meetings and workshops with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring strong stakeholder management

Working conditions
This is a maternity cover from May 2026 until February 2027, working 4 days per week, based in Denmark with an on-site/hybrid setup across Lyngby and Hørsholm.

What you’ll need to be successful

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent with strong analytical skills and understanding of business processes in large organizations
• Proven experience in project coordination and structured execution
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders across functions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including creating and maintaining templates, guidelines, and communication materials
• Solid process and system understanding, with interest in improving Candidate Experience through tools and workflows
• Fluent English, written and spoken

You bring a service-oriented mindset and engage curiously with internal and external stakeholders. You approach tasks proactively and pragmatically, pay close attention to details and timelines, and take pride in supporting others through clear communication and structured coordination. You enjoy being part of a team and contributing with insights, energy, and collaboration.

Additional skills & interests we value

• Experience with facilitation and training in large organizations
• Knowledge of or interest in design thinking
• Interest in digitalization of HR processes
• Experience with HR and recruitment processes

Application deadline: April 10th, 2026. We will screen in-coming applications and invite for interviews continuously during the application period, so please apply as soon as possible.

Contact information: Head of Candidate Experience Maria Bech Petersen at MAPT@novonesis.com.

Our purpose guides the way

In Novonesis, we know that solutions rooted in biology can help solve humanity’s biggest challenges. Since we began more than a century ago, this has been our guide. It’s how we've gotten so far. And it’s how we'll impact the future. Now, more than ever, the world needs change. And with biosolutions, the possibilities for transformation are endless. If our purpose resonates with you, we encourage you to apply.

Opportunities for everyone

We are committed to an inclusive recruitment process and equal opportunity for all applicants. Therefore we ask you to apply without a cover letter or photo and instead include a few sentences in your CV explaining your motivation for applying.

We make all employment decisions based on business needs and welcome candidates with a wide range of backgrounds, including ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or veteran status.

Explore other openings

If this position isn’t the right fit, you may still find other opportunities with us. You’re welcome to explore open roles or create a job agent to stay connected with future opportunities at novonesis.com/Career