Manager for LCM Team (Life Cycle Management)

Are you a highly motivated and experienced Manager, who is ready to lead a team of project managers working with the LCM (Life Cycle Management) portfolio and design & site transfer portfolio? Do you have a skill and interest for developing people into their strengths and do you have knowledge of how projects work in the pharmaceutical or medical devices area? If so, apply today!

The Position
As the Manager for LCM, you will be first and foremost be responsible for developing your employees, catering to their strengths and opportunities. 
You will together with your team ensure timely execution and handling of projects and site transfers in the portfolio. You will actively take part in prioritizing projects against enterprise goals, strategies, and workload/resource allocation, weighing pros and cons to ensure successful project execution. You will drive standardization and optimization of project processes together with our stakeholders to ensure we build for the future.
Key Responsibilities:
•    Continue building and developing the team and the team culture.
•    Run weekly board meetings with the team, focusing on well-being, workload, ur-gent issues, successes, and learnings.
•    Actively prioritize projects against enterprise goals, strategies, and work-load/resource allocation.
•    Guide and develop the team on finding solutions, mitigations, compromises, and escalating timely and through the right channels.
•    Present, communicate, and engage effectively with stakeholders.
•    Drive standardization and optimization of processes and frameworks within pro-ject execution.
 

Qualifications
To succeed in this position, you have:
•    3 years of project management experience combined with 2 years of leadership.
•    A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business or Natural Sciences, combined with a strong understanding of pharmaceutical regulations and/or medical devices.
•    Fluency in English.
•    An understanding of medical devices, design control, moulding/components, as-sembly, submissions, and design/site transfers (nice to have).
As a leader, you are highly motivated with a passion for project management. You have the ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, as well as strong problem-solving and decision-making skills. You have experience presenting to and en-gaging with steering committees and stakeholders of varying complexities.

About the Department

Device Development (DD), part of Finished Product MSAT, holds the design responsibility for Novo Nordisk’s medical devices and delivery systems and is the link between Devel-opment and Production.

In Device Development, the main task is to drive the introduction of new Novo Nordisk products into market while we maintain and continue the development of variants on our marketed device and product platforms. Our deliverables are directly impacting our ca-pability to deliver to markets, entry to new markets, and stay in market. You will be joining the New Production Introduction (NPI) & Life Cycle Management (LCM) department, which is the project and portfolio office of DD and holds the respon-sibility of our NPI and LCM project portfolios. 

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 ex-perimentation, 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 pa-tient care.

Contact
For further information, you are welcome to contact Senior Manager Asger Radisch Bredkjær at [email protected].

Deadline
19th of December.
Please note that applications will be reviewed during Christmas.
 

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.