Senior Project Controller

Are you driven and eager to join our capacity expansion project and take part in finding the best solutions within the financial area? Are you passionate about financial understanding and wish to utilise your strong cost engineering/project controlling skills in a global company with many stakeholders?
Would you like to develop your career and make a real difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases?

We are looking for our new colleague with solid experience as Project Controller in Hillerød. Apply now and join us!

The position

As our new Senior Project Controller, you will be responsible for managing financials within direct project execution. 

 Your day-to-day areas of responsibilities include:

• Developing, creating, monitoring, and executing cost controls
• Focus on cost management, scheduling, project resources, progress reports, forecasting, and risk management.
• Supplement your business/finance/accounting knowledge with broad technical knowledge within pharmaceutical production, which will help you in your daily work.
• Build a broad network in Novo Nordisk with regular contact with many different areas of the business to govern solutions within the projects.

You will become part of a diverse team with an informal tone and good collaboration. The mantra of the team is “freedom with responsibility” and you will be given the opportunity to structure your workday within the boundaries of a fast-moving project. 

Qualifications

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

• An academic degree in Finance, Accounting, Project Management, Business or similar.     

• + 3 years of practical project controlling experience as well as from working on projects
• Knowledge in executing step-by-step cost controlling and creating and forecasting project budgets/costs.
• Strong collaborative skills and feel comfortable reaching out to stakeholders.
• If you have previous experience from working in a GMP regulated industry is a big plus.
• Full professional proficiency in oral and written English.

As a person, you are curious to learn and attentive to details, working independently and proactively across a broad stakeholder landscape. You have effective analytical capabilities to communicate complex sets of data to management in an easy-to-understand way, ultimately providing direction and influencing decision making. Furthermore, while working independently, you thrive on driving initiatives and have a forward-thinking outlook.
 

About the department

Our team is working to expand the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) capacity of our production in Hillerød. You will become a part of one of the most significant expansion projects in Novo Nordisk – and when finished the facility will employ app. 340 colleagues. The highly automated facility will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology that is flexible to accommodate new processes and products. It will expand our capacity for our portfolio of clinical late phase products to serve more people living with serious chronic diseases including rare diseases. 

We do not only drive change for our patients – we also drive life-changing careers for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high levels of trust, innovation, and development throughout the organization. To drive the project and reach the initial phase of production, we need your help! Are you ready to join the project team and our journey? 

Working at site Hillerød, Novo Nordisk 
At Novo Nordisk Site Hillerød, we are around 4,000 employees developing, producing, and filling injection pens to help patients around the world living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Here we also house a large factory dedicated to the production of life-saving medicine for patients with rare diseases. 

At Site Hillerød we employe a diverse range of talent working across the value chain, and we are growing fast. In fact, we are one of the most rapidly expanding sites in Denmark. For this reason, we have many exciting job opportunities and therefore we are continuously looking for new talented colleagues. Join us and become a part of extraordinary teams implementing new technologies to take our production to new heights and serve even more patients.

The site is located in beautiful surroundings and offers good transportation options from Copenhagen, Hillerød, and the rest of North Zealand. 

Currently, we are hiring many new colleagues in various engineering roles, including mechanical, automation, robotics, IT, validation, processes, manufacturing and much more. Also, we are looking for process operators, electricians, mechanics, technicians, project managers, associate managers, and pharmacists or similar background.  

Now is an extremely exciting time to join, as we are on an unprecedented growth journey and are serving more patients now than ever. Site Hillerød has a critical role to play in empowering Novo Nordisk to meet the needs of our patients now and in the future. Join us on this journey!  

Join us as we shape the future of pharma production and contribute to our purpose of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases!

Get to know us better - meet us at www.novonordisk.com/site-hilleroed-careers

Contact 
If you would like to discuss further, you are welcome to contact, Senior Manager Søren Jensby +45 30758985

Deadline

24 November 2024. Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged 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.