Curriculum vitae · the boring one
Mohsen Zarei
Digital Project & Portfolio Management Leader
Building teams · digital & AI delivery · governance & execution
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In one paragraph
Digital delivery leader with 5+ years across pharma and engineering — spanning project and portfolio management, hands-on digital & AI delivery, and team and department leadership. I build and lead cross-location teams and turn strategy into a prioritised portfolio of initiatives, driven to measurable outcomes with clear governance. I thrive building structure in agile environments and standing up new teams and ways of working where the playbook hasn’t been written yet.
Experience
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Apr–Jun 2026
Interim Manager — Project Systems
NNE (Novo Nordisk Engineering) · Virum, DK
- Built and led a Denmark–India team across 12 concurrent workstreams, holding delivery through a leadership transition and an unplanned senior resignation — no loss of delivery.
- Established portfolio governance — clear decision forums, 20+ documented decisions, live risk and dependency management.
- Led hiring panels and Q3 OKR planning; grew confident, self-driven team members through an empowering, holistic style.
- Pioneered Copilot/Cowork to auto-generate full handover documentation when a specialist resigned with no backfill.
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Jul 2024–Present
Lead Business Analyst — Project Systems
NNE (Novo Nordisk Engineering) · Virum, DK
- Leads the BI, automation and digitalisation agenda and heads the India (Bangalore) Project Systems team.
- Runs a prioritised portfolio of digital & AI initiatives — from discovery through delivery to measurable outcomes.
- Delivered a safety-KPI analytics platform (Power BI) used by senior leadership; built DataHub on Microsoft Fabric.
- Mentors analysts and engineers; sets reusable standards and agile ways of working.
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Aug 2025–Present
Associate Director — Digital Strategy & Systems
NovoNations (freelance) · Copenhagen
- Sets and executes the digital strategy for a cross-company network connecting Novo Nordisk and NNE colleagues (34 nationalities).
- Shapes the platform and member experience; translates leadership and member needs into a prioritised roadmap.
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Jun 2023–Jun 2024
Senior Business Analyst — Regulatory Affairs
Novo Nordisk · Søborg, DK
- Co-developed the department’s digitalisation strategy — contributing to 3× PS API Aspiration Awards.
- Power Apps & Power Automate SME and process-digitalisation trainer; grew citizen developers.
- Delivered Veeva Vault RIM & Labeling control towers; achieved cLEAN 2-star.
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Aug 2021–May 2023
Data Analyst — Technical Warehouse
Novo Nordisk · Kalundborg, DK
- Built the warehouse’s first self-service dashboards (Tableau, Alteryx, SAP MM/PM), creating new management visibility.
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2017–2020
Sales & Marketing Specialist
Jette Frölich Design · Hørsholm, DK
- Used market, revenue and customer analytics to support pricing, product development and international growth.
What I actually do
Team building & people leadership
Building and leading multi-disciplinary teams; an empowering style that grows ownership, capability and confident, self-driven members.
Project & portfolio management
Turning strategy into a prioritised portfolio of digital & AI initiatives, managed to measurable outcomes.
Governance & agile execution
Clear governance, roles and ways of working; planning, progress reporting, value realisation and steering-committee alignment.
Strategy–delivery interface
The bridge between strategy and delivery; senior-stakeholder alignment and global collaboration.
Establishing & scaling teams
Standing up new teams, capabilities and ways of working from the ground up.
Digital & AI delivery
Delivering digital and AI solutions and the data foundation — self-service AI, automation and BI.
Tools of the trade
Delivery & leadership
AI & automation
Data & BI
Enterprise systems
Development
Education
- MSc — Management, Organisation & Business EconomicsUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelona2014
- MSc — Industrial EngineeringAmirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic)2012
- BSc — Industrial EngineeringAzad University, Shiraz2010
- Python from ScratchCopenhagen2020
Languages
- PersianNative
- EnglishProfessional
- SpanishProfessional
- DanishIntermediate
- ArabicIntermediate
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