Systems Engineering Manager

Are you a team player with a passion for empowering and nurturing the success of others? Can you serve as a role model who naturally inspires, motivates, and develops a team? Do you have a flair for product development and the ability to set direction, inspire, and prioritize critical tasks? Then, seize the opportunity today as you could be the Systems Engineering Associate Manager, we are seeking in Device Engineering (DE), a part of Devices & Delivery Solutions (DDS).

Apply today to join our team!

The position

As a System Engineering Manager for a Systems Engineering Team in DE, you will manage one of three systems engineering teams comprising 10-14 professionals. You will play a crucial role in maintaining and developing the necessary capabilities in Systems Engineering (SE) to support the DDS Strategy. Reporting to the director of DE, your responsibilities will include managing project allocations, building capabilities, and operationalizing the team's strategy.

Some of your main responsibilities include:

• Setting direction and fostering high performance and engagement through team empowerment, leading by example, and building trust.
• Ensuring resource allocation to our development projects.
• Prioritizing critical tasks and assigning work accordingly.
• Managing stakeholders internally and externally.
• Being accountable for planning and executing the technical deliverables in the device development projects covered by Systems Engineering.
• Collaborating with the Systems Engineering manager team to set the future direction for systems engineering in Novo Nordisk.

As part of our team, you will have the opportunity to give and receive constructive feedback and share your experiences to further develop as a leader.

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, we expect you to:

• Hold a master’s degree in engineering or any other relevant technical field.
• Possess previous experience in product, device, or manufacturing development, ideally from a system engineering perspective in a regulated environment (preferably within medical devices or the pharmaceutical industry).
• Have 1-3 years of line management experience combined with the ability to give and receive constructive feedback.
• Project leadership would be a great asset but not a prerequisite.
• Be fluent in English, both written and spoken.

As a person, you are reflective with leadership aspirations and skills. You are a proactive team player who is energetic and likes to challenge the status quo while focusing on solutions and opportunities. You have a demonstrated ability to identify better practices and create improvements in methods, techniques, and approaches. Your empathy and assertiveness make you a role model for others, and you are not afraid to make bold decisions. You can easily build and manage networks. Finally, you have good mentoring and training skills along with a positive mindset.

About the Department

In DE, we are responsible for all project deliveries within key engineering disciplines, including Systems Engineering, Risk Management, and Mechanical Engineering. We are a team of over 100 people continuously adapting to deliver best-in-class products in the most efficient and enjoyable way possible. As a Systems Engineering Team Leader, you will be part of a team of 8 leaders, each organized according to skill type and focused on either variants or platforms. Being part of a new and growing organization requires a strong focus on collaboration and ensuring competence development and process optimization/development for your specific engineering area.

Systems Engineering underpins most aspects of medical device development, so our work is integrated into various processes within the development and manufacturing landscape, and our stakeholders have backgrounds in a variety of engineering and scientific disciplines.

DE is part of Delivery Solutions Engineering (DSE) in DDS, and we are passionate about developing the world's best medical devices for the treatment of chronic diseases within our focused therapeutic areas: Diabetes, Obesity, Haemophilia & Growth hormone disorders. We design and develop delivery systems for our treatments to ensure correct dosing and convenience for the patient. Our devices are developed in close collaboration between patients and the scientific discovery teams at Novo Nordisk, ensuring that the developed devices are safe and easy for patients to use while being compatible with the drug products taken into development.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk values its people. We understand that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our careers 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 means 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 Stefan Cuoni Teilmann at SZVT@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

12 May 2024

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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.