Senior Global Project Manager - Water Stewardship

Are you committed to driving sustainable water management practices that align with emerging nature frameworks, regulatory directives and disclosure requirements? Do you believe in the power of collective action and partnerships to create a positive impact on our environment? Join us in our mission to lead the way in water stewardship and make a difference in our communities and beyond! 

This role is based in Bagsvaerd.  

The Position 

As the Water Stewardship Lead, you will play a pivotal role in maturing and deploying our water management strategy at production sites, developing and executing strategies to manage water risks and impacts in supply chains, and spearheading our approach to collective action and replenishment.  

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy Deployment - Help mature and deploy our strategy on water management at production sites, ensuring alignment with peers, emerging nature frameworks, and disclosure requirements. Collaborate with product supply to implement the strategy. 
• Supply Chain Management - Develop out our strategy on managing water risks and impacts in supply chains, including helping to design and implement a programme to build supplier capability to address key water challenges.  
• Collective Action and Replenishment - Develop our approach, partnerships, governance and projects on collective action and replenishment within our value chain. Working closely with our international production sites and affiliates.  
• Water Metrics - Develop our approach to measuring and accounting for water and impacts on water, including embedding it into internal systems.  
• Provide input into our public affairs work as it relates to water, including for example, the EU Urban Wastewater Directive. 

Qualifications

Our ideal candidate possesses: 

• Proven experience in water management and stewardship, preferably within a corporate context. 
• Background in working with NGOs and partnerships preferably in collective action and replenishment. 
• Ability to develop and implement capability-building programmes for managing water risks and impacts in supply chains. 
• Experience in developing and deploying water management strategies at production sites. 
• Experience with water legislation eg. EU Urban Wastewater Directive.
• Knowledge of emerging nature frameworks and disclosure requirements including SBTN, CSRD and TNFD. 
• Robust understanding of existing approaches and limitations to measuring water and water impacts, including LCAs and Volumetric Water Benefit Accounting.  
• Ability to take initiative and build frameworks that can be embedded within the business. 
• Strong collaborative and problem solving skills, able to work across strategy, reporting and product supply, bringing clarity to complex challenges and find pragmatic solutions.  

About the Department 
The world is changing and so are we. With a significant growth outlook for Novo Nordisk, it is of very high importance that the right environmental, nature and biodiversity solutions are created to drive the change towards zero environmental impact. Corporate Environmental Strategy is a diverse team responsible for ‘Circular for Zero’, where we strive for zero environmental impact. Our responsibility includes a variety of environmental initiatives across the organisation and with external stakeholders. We develop and deploy environmental strategies, run cross- organisational projects, drive environmental intelligence and ensure internal and external communication leading to a reduced Novo Nordisk environmental footprint. The department consist of 20 dedicated project managers and specialists, all highly engaged in driving the environmental strategy of Novo Nordisk. 
  
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 Director of Climate & Nature, Corporate Environmental Strategy, Carina Christine Skovmøller on +45 34483317. 

Deadline  
Please apply no later than 15th October 2024 

Please note that applications will be assessed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. 

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.