Schedule Lead

Are you a detail-driven professional with a passion for optimizing project schedules and fostering collaboration? Do you thrive on improving processes and ensuring seamless stakeholder alignment in dynamic IT and automation environments? At Novo Nordisk, you’ll play a key role in shaping cutting-edge global production facilities while driving best practices in scheduling. Join us and be part of a purpose-driven company where your expertise can make a difference. Apply now! 

The position 

This role will have you develop, monitor, and maintain project schedules to ensure the successful and timely completion of projects. This includes working closely with project managers, team members, and stakeholders to define project scope, establish timelines, and allocate resources. 

Your main responsibilities will be to: 

• Lead efforts to enhance scheduling processes and tools for the IT & Automation team. 
• Identify opportunities to streamline workflows, and optimize schedule processes (baselining, monitoring & control, reporting). 
• Drive the adoption of best practices in scheduling and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team. 
• Ensure proper stakeholder alignment and communication with the broader IT & Automation team around schedule.  
• Support scheduling and manage issues cross sites. 
• Support monthly reporting on scheduling cross sites. 

Qualifications 

We imagine that a successful candidate has: 

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in IT, Engineering, Computer Science or similar. 
• 4 + years of experience in a similar role withing project management. 
• Proven experience in project scheduling, preferably within IT and automation domains. 
• Proficiency in scheduling software/tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Primavera P6). 
• Experience with CAPEX projects will be an advantage.  
• Fluent spoken and written English. 

On a personal level, you have a strong understanding of processes and dependencies with the ability to be detail-oriented, ensuring every task and dependency is accounted for with precision. Your strong communication skills allow you to clearly convey complex timelines and project updates, fostering understanding and alignment among diverse stakeholders. Collaborative by nature, you excel at building productive relationships across teams and with external partners, driving cohesion and success. When challenges arise, your problem-solving mindset and adaptability ensure that you address issues swiftly and effectively, keeping projects on track. With a natural aptitude for time management and prioritization, you balance immediate tasks and long-term objectives seamlessly.  

About the department 

DD&IT PS – Fill & Finish Expansions is a program organization - built in a multi-dimensional matrix structure, that’s designed to foster cross-organizational and cross-functional collaboration to shape our future. Our goal is to design and build future-proof, global fill & finish production facilities, with a focus on establishing strong foundational IT and automation that will enable these facilities to digitally evolve.  As a member of our department, you will work closely with colleagues responsible for processes and engineering, as well as various technology partners both internally and externally. 

Working at Novo Nordisk 
Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that.   

We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 60,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk.  

If you want to learn more about how Novo Nordisk leads visions to real-life solutions that make a real-life impact, go explore on Novo Nordisk TechLife. 

Contact 
If you have questions about the position, please contact People Leader Monica Skytte Frederiksen at [email protected] or at +45 30799879. 

Deadline 

8 December 2024 

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

Studies show that members of underrepresented communities don’t apply for jobs unless they’re 100% “qualified”. If this is part of the reason you hesitate to apply, we like you to reconsider and give it a chance. Maybe your profile fits our needs much better than you think. We look forward to receiving your application! 

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.