Senior EHS Partner

Are you passionate about creating a healthy and safe work environment? Would you like to combine your professional skills and executional power with an interest in business partnering with management and across an organisation of +1,300 employees?

Do you want to use your Health & Safety (and Environmental) understanding on exciting business deliveries and complexities? Do you get energy from delivering sharp advisory, results and improving processes?

Then you could be our new Senior EHS Partner in Product Supply (PS) Aseptic Manufacturing Science and Technology (AMSAT) to set and execute the EHS direction in collaboration with AMSAT management based in Bagsværd. Apply now and let's shape the future together!

The position
As our Senior EHS Partner, you will lead the strengthening and execution of the AMSAT EHS Strategy in collaboration with the AMSAT management, striving for continuous improvements and awareness, involving H&S and E campaigns, promotion of preventive initiatives as well as safeguarding within the EHS field to ensure house in order.

You will be leading the required EHS Annual Wheel activities with support from the CVP EHS group and in collaboration with the elected local H&S representatives and responsible leaders across the AMSAT organisation and support in planning & executing internal and external EHS audits.

Responsibilities will include:

• Set direction for and drive our daily work within EHS
• Drive preventive work to ensure a healthy and safe work environment, both physically and psycho-socially
• Collaborate with your EHS colleagues in assessing EHS impact on and risks of changes to the way we operate when introducing new equipment/technology, materials, work processes or facilities etc
• Roll out corporate EHS initiatives locally
• Work closely with our elected Health & Safety representatives to support their day-to-day activities
• Participate in AM EHS network, which includes our international sites
• Ensure EHS annual wheel activities, e.g. annual workplace assessment, management review and reporting

Based on your competencies and experience, you may have the opportunity to support other activities across the AMSAT. You can anticipate varied workdays with changing priorities depending on the tasks at hand.

Qualifications

Your experiences include:

• Hold an academic degree within engineering, business, life science, or similar
• Are experienced and have interest within health & safety (environmental interest is a plus)
• Setting direction and execution within EHS
• Deliver high-quality material for management review and reporting
• Solid stakeholder management skills
• Ability to lead using strong communication and change management skills
• Have professional proficiency in English

You have a continuous improvement and quality focused mindset and able to work with a high degree of independence and ability to structure and prioritise work independently. You see yourself as being pragmatic and solution oriented.

About the Department

As the Senior EHS Partner in the Business Development & Operations team within AMSAT, you will collaborate closely with stakeholders to deliver value-adding support and solve challenges. You will be part of a dedicated CVP EHS group that includes a Senior EHS professional, Advanced EHS Supporter, and a Student Assistant, focusing on strong process execution and regular check-ins.

AMSAT supports global production sites by innovating manufacturing processes while ensuring quality and compliance. You will engage with a broad range of stakeholders, mainly in Denmark, but AMSAT is expanding globally. The team comprises over +1,300 employees across locations like Bagsværd, Gentofte, Hillerød, Kalundborg, and Søborg, with the main working locations being Bagsværd and Gentofte.

The Business Development & Operations team drive activities such as management- and admin support, financial planning, strategy, quality, facility and project management, along with environmental and health & safety (EHS) initiatives. The team consists of around 25 skilled professionals who values a fun, motivating, and development-oriented environment, fostered through social committee events, teambuilding, and development activities.

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact Ulrik Bjørn Høybye (Business Development & Operations Sr. Manager) at: +45 3077 7101

Deadline

9 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.