Associate Manager for Operators

Do you want to lead a group of hardworking and dedicated operators at some of our advanced API factories in Kalundborg. Can you stabilize production and drive engagement and results in your team? Are you motivated by driving operational performance and improvements while ensuring standardization? Then apply for one of the two vacant positions today and embark on a life-changing career with Novo Nordisk.

The Position

As an Associate Manager, you will lead a dedicated team, ensuring smooth and compliant production operations. You will be responsible for overseeing both upstream and downstream activities, maintaining high standards of housekeeping and safety across the department. Your role includes managing team development, recruitment, and training, ensuring employees are equipped to meet production needs. You will implement cLEAN® principles, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

You will ensure that production processes comply with GMP regulations, maintaining inspection readiness for internal and external audits. By creating and maintaining necessary procedures and documentation, you will ensure that equipment and processes are validated as required.

You will also monitor performance through KPIs, ensuring that departmental targets are met with timely and accurate reporting. In collaboration with the EHS organization, you will ensure that safety regulations are followed and promote environmental compliance. As a manager, you will set clear expectations, motivate your team, and create a positive working environment that fosters growth and stability. This position offers strong opportunities for both professional and personal development while contributing to the success of life-saving production.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:

- 3+ years of managerial experience within production, probably within pharmacy or similar

- 3+ years of experience from development, production, quality control or quality assurance of pharmaceutical production

- Understanding of GMP and LEAN knowledge

- You have a strong people leadership track record

- You are fluent in both English and Danish

As a leader, you demonstrate inclusive leadership, valuing diverse perspectives and fostering collaboration across business functions. You possess strong communication skills and can build professional relationships effectively. Your strategic, innovative, and analytical mindset allows you to understand what it takes to lead people on shift, being flexible to support both production and employees optimally. You excel in implementing simple, effective systems and processes and understand the importance of involvement in achieving ownership and empowerment.

About the department

We are an API production in M4 I Kalundborg, producing API for FVII. We have 170 employees. The primary Operatorteam have 40 employees and the work in 3 shifts 365 days.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our careers is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk means working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.

Contact

If you want to know more, please reach out to Associate Manager, Frederik Jensen +45-30754933.

Deadline

Please apply before February, 2nd.

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV.

To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV.

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

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we’re life changing.