Cost Manager

Are you experienced in cost controlling from large capex projects? Do you see yourself as a people manager and have excellent collaboration skills? We are looking for a Cost Manager to lead a team of approximately 15 engaged employees within cost. If this sounds like you, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position 

As a Cost Manager at Novo Nordisk, you will:

• Foster a collaborative and supportive team environment, ensuring team members are engaged and motivated
• Create effective and transparent systems, structures, and processes to drive cost management, ensuring clarity and order by applying the appropriate amount of planning and organizing
• Provide clear goals and prioritization for the team members to ensure effective use of time and resources and build employee motivation
• Organize project team, assign individual responsibilities, develop employees, and determine resource requirements
• Bring an open and proactive leadership approach, a strategic perspective, an ability to create overview from shop floor to director level and a strong customer focus.

Qualification

We realise that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• Experience within cost controlling from a large capex project
• Good collaboration and communication skills
• Understands the relationship between cost, risk and schedule in project execution and supports important decisions throughout the project lifecycle
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to determine resource requirements
• Preferable experience with people management
• Academic degree in finance, engineering, project management or similar
• Fluency in English is required, Danish language skills are advantageous

About the department

You will join the growing team of API Investment Project Office (IPO) supporting the largest construction projects across the API organisation. IPO consists of five teams where the culture is open, engaged, curious and inclusive. Presence on site in Kalundborg is expected 3-4 days/week.

Join a supportive and collaborative work environment where your ideas are valued. Our team of 30 people is diverse, inclusive, and committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement. We believe in the power of teamwork and strive to create an atmosphere where everyone can thrive.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

For further information please contact Peter Schwensen, Project Controls Manager +45 3079 0692.

Deadline

26 January, 2025.

Please feel free to apply in Danish or English as you wish. Interviews will be held on ad hoc 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 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.