Manager for Facility & Validation

Are you ready to lead a team of skilled and motivated professionals, guiding your team to success? Can you effectively manage day-to-day operations while driving the department’s strategic goals, focusing on facility & validation? If you are excited to work across the value chain and create a cooperative environment, we look forward to having you join the Sourcing Warehouse in Hillerød. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position
As a Manager for Facility & Validation, you will lead a team of around 14 highly committed and professional employees. In this role, you will be part of a strong management team consisting of nine other leaders and a specialist. The culture in the management team is inclusive, collaborative, fun, and highly professional. You will work closely with managers in the warehouse, especially the Compliance & Inspections Manager and API & New Materials Manager.

Additionally, you will:

• Manage the Support team (live NNWAY).
• Ensure quality & compliance by meeting requirements from authorities.
• Oversee the facility, including various storage and classified areas.
• Ensure the facility complies with relevant validated states.
• Manage utility and maintenance programmes in close collaboration with the lo-cal service centre.
• Execute the investment project portfolio.
• Develop the team and ensure engaged and motivated employees.

 
Qualifications
To succeed in this position, you should have:

• Proven leadership experience with a minimum of 3 years in a relevant profes-sional role within supply chain or operations.
• At least 2 years of experience with GMP and ISO requirements.
• Fluency in Danish and English.
• Strong people skills and the ability to set a clear direction.
• A strategic ability to balance quality, delivery, and cost.

On a personal level, you should have high personal integrity and robustness to integrate different views in decision-making. You have ability to challenge colleagues to ensure the best results. You possess strong organisational skills and the ability to engage employees in delivering on their objectives.
 
About the department
The department consists of 100+ employees who ensure the execution of reception, sampling, order handling, and global dispatching of raw materials daily. The department is located in Hillerød, with many close colleagues in Kalundborg. We currently have six teams in the department but will soon expand with two more teams. There-fore, we will also welcome new managers and employees to the department shortly.

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 
For further information please contact Lauge Navntoft Pedersen at [email protected]. 

Deadline
12 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.