LEAN Partner (12-month maternity cover)

Are you enthusiastic about participating in continuous improvement initiatives and fostering an exceptional LEAN culture within Novo Nordisk? Can you cultivate a LEAN mindset to advance our managers and employees to new levels of LEAN excellence? Are you passionate about continuously improving our ways of working? Does the idea of enabling data-driven decision-making through visual management sound exciting to you?
If so, then the position of LEAN Partner at Novo Nordisk Oral Product Development (OPDev) in Måløv might just be right for you!
 
The position
At Novo Nordisk Oral Product Development, LEAN represents more than just a set of tools; it embodies a culture and mindset that are continuously evolving within our organization. As a new Lean Partner, you will become part of a group of LEAN partners supporting the area. Your primary responsibility will involve leading lean initiatives, enhancing the organization's lean maturity, and being primary driver of the Lean integration of our new site in Athlone.
Your main tasks will include:

• Coaching of leaders in performance board meetings.
• Facilitating problem-solving and process mapping activities with a coaching approach.
• Implementing and enhancing lean systems or tools to address business challenges.
• Driving LEAN initiatives, building robust processes and ensuring efficient communication between stakeholders.

Additionally, you will be part of a lean network across the business unit and will participate in cross-organizational lean projects. Your LEAN colleagues will include both local LEAN partners in your team, as well as a centralized LEAN team comprising Lean partners and Specialists supporting operations across the business unit.
 
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have: 

• A relevant academic degree and a strong LEAN toolbox and proven track record of delivering results within a manufacturing and development environment.
• You have experience in implementing optimization projects and naturally involve and motivate your customers 
• Excellent change management and stakeholder management skills at all levels.
• Hands-on experience in improving visual management
• Full proficiency in spoken and written English.

As an individual, you are positive, collaborative and solution orientated, and you work systematically, logically, and proactive. You can interact and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, and you take pride in solving your tasks and challenges with close involvement of key stakeholders. On a personal level, you are a team player, but you are also comfortable working independently when coaching and challenging leaders or when collecting data in the production. 
 

About the department 
As part of Oral Product Development (OPDev) you make a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop and formulate all new processes coming out of our research units in our pilot plants, ensuring that we bring best-in-class treatments to the market. The Oral Product Development is an area within CMC that employs approximately 500 highly skilled people in Måløv. Our focus is to develop and manufacture solid dose tablets for pre-clinical and clinical trial phases I, II and III covering a broad and exciting range of process technologies for solid dosage forms.

You will become part of the Portfolio Management & Business Support department that consists of three separate teams that each support the CVP area within different disciplines such as Training, QMS, Project Management, LEAN and more. The team you will be part of is called Capacity Planning, cLEAN & Finance. In the team there are five LEAN partners, who you will be working closely with, alongside a Business Analyst, Finance Controller and Supply Chain Planner.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.  

Contact
For further information, please contact hiring manager Rasmus Peitersen at +45 34 48 26 67 or [email protected].
 
Deadline
21 February 2025.
Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged 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.