Senior LEAN Partner

Are you ready to take the next step and pursue a life-changing career at Novo Nordisk? Are you seeking a career opportunity where you can utilize your lean skills and leader-ship experience? Look no further! In Product Supply (PS) – Active Pharmaceutical In-gredient (API) production in Novo Nordisk globally, we are seeking a highly motivated and experienced operational excellence leader to join our API Lean Team. Read on and apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position
As a Senior Lean Partner, you will be an integral part of business support in PS – API. In this role, you will play a crucial part in fostering a culture where lean is the standard way of operating through developing principles and systems for teaching, guiding, and coaching our leaders and employees.

Your responsibilities will encompass actively participating in and ensuring continuous process improvement and sharing best practices across API. Your expertise will be in-strumental in monitoring and reviewing cross-organizational issues within PS API, lead-ing to the creation of solutions that enhance business results.

Key tasks will also include:

• Maturing and deploying Value Stream Mapping (VSM).
• Identifying and supporting cross-organizational problem solving (Lean Six Sigma Black Belt).
• Developing our Lean competences and skill set in API, via our Lean Academy.
• Supporting the implementation of the elements in the NN Lean Supply System .
• Advising API management teams on lean principles and systems, as well as on the future direction for lean in API.
• Formulating, communicating, and implementing corporate strategies supporting our business targets.

Furthermore, you will be instrumental in fostering collaboration with other lean partners across the organization in an ever-changing environment, effectively balancing your ef-forts between operations and projects. Additionally, you will occasionally provide support to the organization with ad-hoc systematic problem-solving or workshop facilitation, thereby enabling process stability, increasing capacity, or reducing unit costs. 

Qualifications
We are looking for someone who embodies a true lean mindset — someone who not only understands but passionately believes in the principles that drive efficiency, innovation, and excellence, and can inspire others to follow suit. In this role, we highly value not just technical expertise but leadership abilities. You will have a high degree of independence and the opportunity to influence our organization on the lean mindset and methodology.
 
To succeed in this role, we imagine that you have:

•  An academic degree in e.g., engineering or business.
• Some years of experience with lean implementation, project management, strategy deployment, coaching, change management and cultural transfor-mation.
• Experience in a manufacturing environment.
• Expertise in lean transformation and/or turnaround processes in a large mul-ti-site, international environment.
• Professional proficiency in English.

On a personal level, you have a remarkable ability to communicate with clarity and as-sertiveness along with the ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscape and negoti-ate at a strategic level. You demonstrate excellent cooperation skills and excel in foster-ing collaboration and ensuring active engagement among other employees.
 
About the Department
You will be part of API – Business Support – a diverse unit comprising of +180 employ-ees with headquarters in Kalundborg. The position is in department ‘API cLEAN, where we provide various types of support to the CVP areas and the management team. 

Overall, we have the responsibility for maturing lean in the organization by developing guiding principles, robust systems, and standardized tools? Deploying lean related initia-tives and supporting on ad hoc cases in Line of Business. 

 
Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for a 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 ex-perimentation, 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 pa-tient care.

Contact
For further information, please contact Simon Palsøe SVP Lean Partner at +45 3448 1627.
 
Deadline
17 November 2024.
 
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.
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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.