Senior Manager for Projects and Site Support in LM Business Support

Are you an experienced leader ready to take on our newly established role as Sr. Manager for Projects and Site Support in Local Manufacturing? Do you have a passion for coaching project managers and manufacturing professionals to align with future needs? Are you skilled in translating overall strategies into actionable plans, targets, and initiatives while ensuring alignment and quality management?

Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position

This is a newly established role, offering you the unique opportunity to shape and define its impact within the organization. Your team will be overall responsible for two main areas: Site Support & Projects.

You will be overseeing our sites in Algeria, Russia, Iran, and Japan, spanning across various manufacturing processes from aseptic production, assembly, packing to inspection. You will focus on providing direction, establishing vital links to NN corporate functions by helping your colleagues navigate in our NN process landscapes and building partnerships and networks, ensuring their success and alignment with our broader organizational goals.

On the Project site your team will e.g. assist the sites with preparing materials for towards a PPG or IPG. 

Other responsibilities include:

• Setting direction for the department by translating overall strategies into plans, target and initiatives and follow-up on performance
• Ensuring alignment within site support, process mapping and Quality Management Review
• Coaching of project managers and manufacturing professionals
• Implementing to Novo Nordisk way, policies, and other commitments
• Maintaining lighthouse for project management

Qualifications
To be considered for this position, you must meet the following requirements:

• A BSc or MSc in Engineering or Business Administration or any other related field
• Significant experience working in the pharma industry, with a deep understanding of pharma manufacturing processes
• Strong leadership experience and proven ability to navigate complex stakeholder landscapes, drive change management, and successfully execute complex projects in a large organization
• Professional proficiency in English
• Project Management experience and knowledge of e.g. PEM is a plus, but not required.

With a strategic mindset, you can work independently to drive decisions and processes forward and thrive in a high-paced and dynamic workday, prioritising, and inspiring others. You have the ability for seeing the bigger picture and able to keep the eye on the ball in collaboration with stakeholders.

About the department

LM is part of Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply organisation, and our primary role is the establishment and operation of manufacturing sites in countries where local presence is required to obtain market access. We play a vital part in bringing product to patients worldwide, by ensuring an efficient supply chain at local sites.

You will join our Business Support department within Local Manufacturing.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing. 

Contact 

For further information, please contact Director Business Support Rasmus Melsen on +45 3079 5841 or [email protected]

Deadline 

28 November 2024

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about your motivation 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.