Recycling & Contract Manager

We are seeking a dedicated Recycling & Contract Manager for our waste management area with a focus on sustainability and circular economy. Are you committed to the green agenda and interested in working with waste in a leading company in constant development? You might be our future colleague as a Contract Manager for our Waste Management department. Apply now!

The Position

In our Corporate Facilities department, we need a new colleague who, in collaboration with our Waste Management team consisting of 8 dedicated individuals, will contribute to achieving results and making a difference. As we are on a fast growth journey, there are high demands for agility. As our future Contract Manager, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Developing constructive partnerships with our partners that align with Novo Nordisk's Circular for Zero strategy. Learn more about this on our website.
• Ensuring clear and open communication among all parties involved in the contract.
• Monitoring agreed deadlines and ensuring mutual objectives are met.
• Responsible for operational meetings and quarterly reviews with partners to ensure the fulfilment of agreed-upon goals and obligations.
• Contributing to ensuring data discipline in our waste management practices.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with waste management in a way that promotes sustainability and minimal environmental impact, as this is crucial to our commitment to social responsibility.
• Ability to creatively think about recycling waste in ways that minimize our climate footprint.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Contract Manager or in a similar role, working on partnership development.
• Strong communication and negotiation skills in both Danish and English.
• High experience in governance and stakeholder management, as well as an understanding of the importance of good dialogue and maintaining strong relationships in task resolution.
• Additionally, it is valued that the candidate has the right personal profile, can build relationships, and can operate across the organization at all levels and in all professional communities.

You likely come from a similar role where you have experience in developing strong partnerships with suppliers. Your profile is targeted, structured, decisive, and proactive. You can establish and maintain strong relationships with suppliers to ensure they fulfil contractual obligations and deliver the expected quality. You thrive in an environment that involves extensive interaction both internally with colleagues and externally with suppliers.

About the Department

Corporate Facilities consists of approximately 300 colleagues from various fields and is anchored within Finance, Legal, and Global Solutions. We enable Novo Nordisk to focus on its core business by delivering simple and agile solutions for physical infrastructures such as campuses, properties, utilities, and workplaces. In addition, we offer facility management services and security operations. We continue to develop and maintain a large project portfolio and create tangible business results by collaborating with all areas of the company. What we do affects all of Novo Nordisk's Danish colleagues. Our employees are given significant responsibility from day one, providing them with a steep learning curve where their ambitions set the limits. In Corporate Facilities, we proactively work to create win-win solutions with internal and external stakeholders in the areas where we operate. You will be part of the Office & Waste Operations department, located in Bagsværd, consisting of 22 employees responsible for waste operations across all Danish sites, developing and operating the service model for office buildings, and managing maintenance and employee transportation. The environment is relaxed, welcoming, and supportive, and although many of your colleagues will look to you for answers, you will not be alone in facing challenges or victories.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life science company. We draw inspiration from life in all its forms and manifestations, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things - from life's building blocks that form the basis for groundbreaking scientific research to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to do our best at work. Ultimately, life is the reason we are all here - to ensure that people can live a life independent of chronic illness.

Contact

If you have any questions regarding the position, please contact Manager Charlotte Ahrens/ +45 3444 0235.

Deadline

12 July

The position needs to be filled as soon as possible, so do not hesitate to submit your CV, even if you do not necessarily meet all our requirements.

Interviews will be conducted continuously, so please send your application as soon as possible.

You do not need to attach a separate cover letter, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your CV.

To ensure an effective and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to your CV.

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.