LEAN Partner for Future Standards, Fill & Finish Expansions

Do you want to make a difference by applying LEAN principles and developing the mindset of leaders and employees alike? Do you want to work with a wide range of stakeholders and get people engaged in process and project optimisations? This is your opportunity to play a key role in leading us into the future!

The position
As LEAN Partner for Future Standards, your main objective is to be the catalyst for continuously improving the organisation’s ability to execute projects efficiently. Your role will focus on bringing your expertise and toolbox within LEAN into play to help the organisation drive world class project execution. In doing so, you will work with leaders across the organisation and act as a sparring partner ensuring an efficient execution set-up.

Concretely, the primary task will be to enable managers and employees across Future Standards in maturing and ensuring a meaningful and useful board and escalation structure. 

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Play a key role in the implementation of LEAN Leadership across Future Standards 
• Provide shopfloor coaching to managers and team members to sustain and mature a LEAN approach to project execution
• Train and support the organisation to do systematic problem solving (SPS) through facilitation of SPS meetings and coaching of employees in the SPS methods
• Identify and develop LEAN concepts and solutions that supports efficient project execution

Qualifications
To be a competitive candidate, you should have:

• A bachelor’s or master’s degree within business management, production management, engineering, pharmacy, or any other related field
• Professional experience with business or process optimisation from a similar position in a LEAN environment in- or close to a manufacturing environment
• Strong LEAN toolbox with practical experience applying concepts such as performance boards, systematic problem solving (A3), KATA and VSM, and bring shopfloor coaching experience
• Strategic mindset, and it is an advantage if you know Hoshin Kanri tools
• Solid analytical skills and practical experience in analysing complex business issues will be an advantage
• Good at connecting with people at all levels of an organization and have strong stakeholder management skills.

As a person, you are comfortable with taking initiative proactively and have a strong personal drive and dedication with a ‘can-do’ attitude, curious about the processes and people you work with and have a burning desire to learn new things.

You are able to demonstrate attention to detail and structured in your problem-solving approach, a team player within a diverse group of colleagues with a good sense of humour and you have great interpersonal skills are a must since the job will include considerable interaction with different stakeholders and colleagues across the organisation.

About the department
Within the Future Standards PMO, in Fill & Finish Expansions, our Project Execution Team consists of 12 dedicated employees driving the crosscutting projects and delivering business support across the functions within Future Standards. We are an international team driving initiatives relating to project and scope management, governance, change management, organization & collaboration, project optimizations, and similar. 

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 career 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 is 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 63,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing. 
 

Contact
For further information, please contact Frederikke Pape Kofod at [email protected]
 

Deadline 
26 January 2025
 

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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.