Senior Primary Packaging Professional

Do you thrive in a fast growing, fast-paced and complex environment, where transparency and prioritization is required to focus on the right projects and drive the right decisions? Are you ready to develop and drive subject matter expertise within primary packaging in our area?
If so, you might be the Senior Primary Packaging Professional for Product Life Cycle Management we are looking for. Apply now for a life-changing career!

The position
As a Senior Primary Packaging Professional, you will be part of a small cross-functional team, working with primary packaging and container closure integrity across the portfolio of aseptic products in Novo Nordisk. You will collaborate closely with other professionals within primary packaging from various areas, as well as production and product professionals within our division.
We support a variety of different packaging types, including vials and cartridges, to prefilled syringes and autoinjectors. Additionally, we work with both internal and external productions, and with a broad range of different suppliers of primary packaging components.

Your primary tasks will include:

• Acting as Subject Matter Expert on all primary packaging related activities, ranging from late development and throughout life cycle management
• Participating in projects and tasks related to aspects of primary packaging
• Acting as bridge between product and primary packaging to help facilitate a common understanding of requirements from both perspectives
• Taking part in cross-organisational work, to define and align approaches to all aspects of working with primary packaging
• Utilizing knowledge about materials and primary packaging, to also offer support to task with related nature e.g. intermediate storage/packaging or secondary packaging
• Being part of defining our future set-up and capability need within the area

As a Senior Primary Packaging Professional in our area, you will also be cooperating with colleagues from different cultures, with different areas of expertise and at different organizational levels. You will be working out of Bagsværd, Denmark and limited number of travels can be expected.

Qualifications
We are looking for someone who can inspire and energize their surroundings, establish clear and ambitious goals, and work closely together with subject matter experts, project managers, leaders, and other stakeholders. Our ideal candidate is good at building relations, has strong interpersonal skills and can navigate in a complex stakeholder landscape.

To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

• BSc or MSC Degree in natural science or equivalent 
• At least 10 years of experience working with packaging, preferably primary 
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast paced environment
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills 
• Professional proficiency in English

Additionally, you have a high integrity and resilience that enables you to incorporate different views in the decision-making process as well as challenge the existing status quo.

On a personal level, you have a high degree of can-do mindset, drive and energy. Your pro-activity, as well as willingness to make a difference and optimise processes shows in your daily work. You communicate and collaborate with empathy across cultures and functions. Moreover, your behaviour fosters positive interactions with project team members and stakeholders making you a great team player.

About the department
Manufacturing Science and Transfer, New Product Introduction and Product Life Cycle Management are three areas under Aseptic Manufacturing Science & Technology (AMSAT). The position will be anchored in Product Life Cycle Management (LCM), but will support the three areas across. These are dynamic areas, consisting of aproxx. 400 employees. The areas provide site, process and product support to projects of diverse complexity across our global supply setup of aseptic manufacturing. A high level of product knowledge and process understanding is anchored in the areas.
As a Senior Primary Packaging Professional , you will be a part of the Primary Packaging and CCI team within Product LCM that consists of SMEs. We are a high performing team that strives towards good collaboration across and project excellence. We have a high team spirit and share best practises, learnings and support each other. We share a relaxed tone and strive for a great working environment, where we can develop our competencies. 

Working at Novo Nordisk
At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change. We drive it. We are 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 are all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For further information please contact Senior Manager, Rasmus Ploug Winchler Larsen, at +45 3448 5546. 
 
Deadline
17 December 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. 
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.