Project Planner (2-year FTC)

Are you energised by interacting with many different stakeholders? Do you want to play a key role in project planning and execution? 

Then you might be our new Project Planner for our Needle Manufacturing production site in Hjørring! Apply today for our 2-year fixed term contract!

The position
As Project Planner, you will continuously participate in a varying number of ongoing projects, in which you are responsible for establishing and maintaining a project plan. Our plans are updated frequently as they are one of our most important tools for ensuring control over our deliveries. This position is a temporary 2-year fixed term contract (FTC).

Your primary tasks will be to: 

• Develop and co-facilitate the Product and Work Breakdown Structure (PBS & WBS). Define activities, milestones and estimate activity durations and resource allocation in close collaboration with your key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain project plans in MS Project in close collaboration with the project team, project manager and technical experts.
• Participate in project-related workshops, where in some cases you will be the primary driver and facilitator.
• Break down the plan into a sprint backlog and ensure consistent description of tasks for all team members.
• Possibly take the role as SCRUM-Master in the project and facilitate sprint meetings.
• Follow up on tasks and progression and make sure progression or delay is reflected in the plan.
   

Together with your colleagues in the planner team, you will be involved in the development of our project planning and execution strategy. Your main stakeholders will range from project management, production teams, technical experts and steering groups. 

Qualifications
Your experiences include:

• Education within a technical field, such as production technology, automation technology, engineering or it. 
• Similar experience within a role as a project planner and knowledge of MS Project. 
• If you have experience with PowerBI or Azure DevOps, and being SCRUM Master, you will have a head start.
• We are open to industry experience. Experience within pharma, IT or construction is advantageous.
• Fluency in spoken and written English. Danish language skills are a bonus.
   

In your daily life, you work in a structured way and have a sharp eye for details. You enjoy being part of projects, which by nature often change priorities. Following a stringent process in a changing environment with many stakeholders is a challenge you feel comfortable navigating as well as working independently and as part of a team.

About the department
You will be part of the team and will collaborate closely with 4 colleagues. Our main responsibilities are:

• Establishing production equipment for new products and capacity expansions
• Being a key partner to R&D within manufacturing development of new products
• Planning and execution of projects at our site in Hjørring
• Process Experts
   

We value professionalism, a high sense of responsibility and an open and informal dialogue. We ensure an environment, where we focus on continuously improving individual and team competences and creating a motivating atmosphere.

Needle Manufacturing in Hjørring is responsible for the internal production of pen needles and quality control of all Novo Nordisk pen needles produced both internal and external. We are organised into seven departments with more than 440 employees dedicated to ensuring the supply of pen needles to Novo Nordisk. Our team is driven by a quality mindset, and we pride ourselves on being a workplace where our can-do spirit and high ambitions come together to create great results for the benefit of our patients. 

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 Berit Ledet (Associate Manager) at: [email protected]

Deadline
12 January 2025

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. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your resume.

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.