Associate Manufactoring Project Manager

Are you ready to drive impactful projects that enhance safety, quality, and efficiency in a world-class pharmaceutical environment? Do you have a passion for project management with a strong focus on governance and reporting in a GMP production setup? Are you eager to be part of an innovative team at Novo Nordisk, where your expertise can help shape the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing?

If so, this is your chance to make a meaningful impact as our new Associate Manufacturing Project Manager within the Project & Data Execution team at Novo Nordisk.

Apply now for a life-changing career!

The Position

As our Associate Manufacturing Project Manager, you will be the main point of contact for local project activities within the Project & Data Execution team. You will oversee project intake, governance, and reporting while ensuring alignment with budget processes. Leading initiatives to enhance safety, quality, compliance, output, and stability, you will collaborate with stakeholders to drive project execution, optimize resources, and implement best practices. Your role will also involve streamlining processes related to local project governance and ensuring effective communication to maintain progress and alignment across teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead project planning and execution by coordinating with stakeholders to ensure timely progress and resource allocation.
• Oversee project governance and reporting to maintain compliance with budget and regulatory requirements.
• Facilitate communication across teams by setting clear deadlines, managing expectations, and ensuring alignment on project priorities.
• Evaluate and implement process improvements to enhance efficiency and simplify local project governance.
• Adapt to changing priorities and challenges, ensuring timely updates and proactive problem-solving to keep projects on track.

Qualifications

As a person, you are a structured, detail-oriented, and proactive professional, you excel at managing complex projects and collaborating across teams. With a quality-focused mindset and strong problem-solving skills, you work effectively both independently and in groups. Your clear communication ensures alignment with stakeholders, while your systematic approach and adaptability help you thrive in a fast-paced, GMP-regulated environment.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses:

• Educational background in mechanical engineering, construction, or a related field, with relevant industry experience.
• 1-2 years of proven project management expertise within a GMP production setup, including governance and execution across multiple disciplines.
• Experience in vendor management, ensuring smooth coordination and compliance with project requirements.
• Strong problem-solving abilities with a structured and analytical mindset, capable of working independently and collaboratively.
• Fluency in Danish and English, with excellent communication skills to engage effectively with diverse stakeholders.

About the Department

Being a part of Novo Nordisk's Device Component Manufacturing (DCM) means working with a focus on one of the world's largest and most successful pharmaceutical companies. Our organization is responsible for manufacturing and sourcing devices and device components and as such plays a vital part in Novo Nordisk's delivery to our patients.

You will join our Project and Data Execution team at site Hillerød, a diverse team solving a multitude of tasks across the organisation - ranging from running and participating in small-to-large local projects, across designing and deploying reporting and knowledge sharing solutions, to validation and verification of moulds and associated spare parts.

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 energize 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

For further information, please contact Manager Peter Morrud at +45 34448354.

Deadline

19 February 2025.

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.