Associate Manager of Technical Operations

Are you a supportive leader who wants to take the first or next step in your career within leadership and succeed with a newly established team of skilled employees to enable Novo Nordisk's expansions? Are you able to develop people and ensure a collaborative and inclusive work environment where everyone is encouraged to do their best? Then take a closer look at the exciting opportunity – Associate Manager for Technical Operations team for Needles Supply department in Hjørring. Join us, apply today!

The position

As an Associate Manager of the Technical Operations team, you will head up a new team and set up the technical operations towards our contract manufacture. Your main task is to support our area in meeting its project commitments related to progress, deadlines, and transparency for stakeholders. Your team contributes with project engineering and technical expertise, provides technical expertise in setting up new equipment at current and future business partners in different technical areas (e.g., IT/OT, manufacturing, sterilization, cleanroom, and validation). You should also expect to play a key role in navigating with stakeholders, who also deliver resources in terms of competences and capabilities for our projects. This includes both internal departments and being on top of external consultant companies. This team is also a key in operating current contract manufacturer of pen needles. This lies currently within sterilisation and cleanroom, but will expand in the future to cover several areas of responsibility.

In this position you may expect 20-30 days of travel.

Qualifications

To succeed in the position, you:

· are familiar with working in projects. Either as Project Manager, Engineer or similar.

· have excellent communicative skills in English.

· have a strong focus on mentorship and team collaboration and are dedicated to fostering a culture of inclusivity and belonging.

· are confident in working with stakeholders at various levels within an organization and are dedicated to fostering inclusive partnerships and diverse collaboration.

· demonstrate excellent stakeholder management skills and can interact with suppliers and contract manufacturer around the world.Eager to establish a new team and setup new process

· have a degree in engineering – bachelor, candidate or similar is an advantage.

It will be an advantage if you have knowledge of medical device production and GMP – perhaps even knowledge within qualification and validation of equipment and processes.

As a person, you are not afraid of making decisions and setting direction. You are empathic, ambitious, proactive, and can develop your employees from where they are. You can work in a complex environment with constant changes and a high level of independence in prioritisation and planning execution.

About the team

The Technical Operations team consists of 8 highly competent and engaged employees who ensure world class support within project execution. The team is part of Global Contract Manufacturing Devices with expertise that spans across a wide range of responsibilities, from managing external supply chains to external production and sourcing of high-quality medical components and needles. We are organised in 6 departments, primarily located at Site Hillerød and Site Hjørring, and with more than 200 employees dedicated to ensuring the supply of medical devices to Novo Nordisk. We are driven by a quality mindset and pride ourselves on being a workplace where our can-do spirit and high ambitions come together to create great results for the benefit of our patients.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you want to know more about the position or have any questions to the position, then feel free to contact department manager, Niels-Kristian Østergaard, at +45 30 79 58 01.

Deadline

December, 31st 2024

Applications will be reviewed on a continuous basis so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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 in 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.