Project Director, CAPEX Expansion

Are you passionate about leading CAPEX projects and ensuring successful delivery? Do you have the skills to plan, organise, and control resources to achieve project objectives? If so, we want you to join our team as a Project Director at Novo Nordisk. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.
 

The Position
As the Project Director, you will be a key driving force behind the successful execution of a major CAPEX project. You will work strategically with internal and external partners to set the direction for your organization as you build it. You will drive the project forward while fostering a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.
In this role at Novo Nordisk, you will:
•    Set direction and lead cross-functional project team cutting across several different job families.
•    Drive a new capex project at Novo Nordisk and be responsible for the overall project scope, budget, quality, and schedule.
•    Support key decisions throughout the project, including milestones.
•    Organise the project team, assign individual responsibilities and determine resource requirements.
•    Provide clear goals and purpose for the project and project team members to ensure effective use of time and resources.
•    Create effective and transparent systems, structures, and processes to drive the project, while selecting and applying essential project management tools and methods.
•    Interact extensively across the entire project, with site management and projects, and with the Fill & Finish Expansion programme.
 

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect you to have a high degree of independence and extensive experience in project management with a proven track record of delivering successful large expansions projects on-time and within budget (within regulated industries such as pharmaceutical, oil & gas, flight industry, or nuclear power). 
Additionally, you have:
•    Strong leadership skills, cross-functional collaboration experience and the ability to motivate.
•    Exceptional communication skills with the ability to interact with internal and external stakeholder in a global network.
•    Master’s degree in Engineering, Pharma/Chemistry, Business Administration or similar is preferred.
•    Certification PMI PMP or AACE CCP, CEP, PSP or similar is preferred.
•    Fluency in English, both written and spoken.

About the Department 
You will be joining Fill & Finish Expansions. The area is anchored in Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 27,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 69,000 employees. Fill & Finish Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major fill & finish expansion projects across PSQIT to serve the needs of millions of patients. 

We do it by rethinking our fill & finish facilities with the use of modern technology. We are setting the standards for the facilities of the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of 20 years from now. 

Fill & Finish Expansions has a global approach, where you will be working with multiple sites and cultures across the world.  

To learn more about Fill & Finish Expansions in Novo Nordisk visit our career site here: Let's build the future for patients: Exciting Careers in Growing Expansion Project (novonordisk.com)  

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk we use our skills, dedication, and ambition to improve the lives of millions of people living with a serious chronic disease. By working with us you will have the opportunity to do the same in a global business environment. In exchange, we offer you an opportunity to work with extraordinary talent and benefit from a range of possibilities for professional and personal development.

Contact
For further information, please contact Kenneth Borch Larsen, Project Vice President, at +45 3444 1310.

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.