Secondary Packaging Responsible

Are you ready to leverage your skills in design control and take on responsibility for some of the largest products in the market? Do you aspire to share your expertise with a dynamic team, collaborating with diverse stakeholders and drive the growth of our expanding portfolio? Would you like to dive into complex challenges, further build on your expertise by spotting opportunities for improvement, driving sustainable solutions, and building strong collaborations across diverse teams? 
 
If so, you might be our new Secondary Packaging Responsible to join the team at site Hillerød. Read on and apply today!
 

The Position

As a Secondary Packaging Responsible, you will have ownership of our secondary packaging products together with other highly skilled team members.

This role offers a great opportunity to have a close collaborate with other teams and stakeholders such as device product responsible colleagues, test engineers, laboratory technicians and Quality Assurance (QA), and thus require thriving in an environment working with a large stakeholder landscape.

The main tasks will be to:

• Perform design verification on marketed secondary packaging materials when changes are introduced to secure all requirements are fulfilled. This entails providing impact assessment in change control cases for secondary packaging components.

• Provide expert input to e.g. risk assessments for customer complaints and deviations in the production.

• Perform risk management activities in collaboration with the packaging process team.

• Drive post-launch activities for our products, adeptly balancing external market demands and internal requirements. Additionally, you should ensure effective problem-solving in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders.

• Identify and execute development, robustness or compliance initiatives related to requirements engineering, design verification, and safety risk management across all secondary packaging.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you:

• Hold a minimum a master’s degree in mechanical engineering, production engineering, materials and manufacturing engineering, medical device engineering, biomechanics, pharmaceutical design and engineering, chemistry, physics, natural science, or a similar field.

• Have practical experience in compliance and documentation within a regulated industry, such as medical devices, pharmaceuticals, food, aviation, or automotive. Prior experience with Design Control or medical device development would be considered a plus.

• Have the ability to plan and prioritize between day-to-day task, long term projects and urgent requests.

• Have strong networking and stakeholder management skills, enabling you to set clear direction, encourage collaboration, enhance performance, while maintaining quality and efficiency.

• Full professional proficiency in spoken and written English.

As a person, you thrive on being the go-to-person for product related decisions among stakeholders. Being skilled at managing stakeholders and navigating complex scenarios with efficient problem-solving to find impactful solutions is key to succeed in this role.

Whether in critical situations or long-term projects, being able to excel in independent work as well as leveraging expert colleagues for optimal outcomes with great team-player mindset is crucial part of this position.

Join us if you’d like to employ a well-structured and systematic way of working, where aiming to find simple and effective solutions within the complexity that surrounds medical device design control!

About the Department

You will join the Secondary Packaging Maintenance team (SecPack), part of the Packaging VP area in Finished Products Manufacturing Science And Technology (FPMSAT) supporting packaging of Novo Nordisk finished products. We are an inter-national team with 33 colleagues divided in three teams, supporting each other and working with both development and maintenance in projects and support tasks across Novo Nordisk.

In FPMSAT are we bridging product development to production and driving development and standardisation of new, smarter packaging processes. Furthermore, we are responsible for establishing packaging capacity worldwide for new and marketed products in compliance with current regulatory requirements and in close interaction with the Novo Nordisk global production sites. We have an end-to-end presence from device development to production implementation and support to running production.

FPMSAT Packaging department is situated in Hillerød and consists of around 180 employees divided into different departments.

About Site Hillerød

Site Hillerød is an innovative and fast-growing production site. With over 4,000 talented employees, we work together to drive change for people living with serious chronic diseases. The site is located in beautiful natural surroundings, and we offer a diverse array of career paths at all educational levels. Join our vibrant community at Site Hillerød and ramp up your career while we ramp up our production! Get to know us better - visit our Site Hillerød career page Novo Nordisk Hillerød.

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 manager Halfdan Stock Nittegaard-Jensen via email at [email protected].

Deadline

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