Senior Project Manager (Drug Product)

Are you an experienced project manager with a passion for overseeing complex projects? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where you can make a significant impact? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you as a Senior project manager (drug product) at Novo Nordisk in Athlone, Ireland. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As a Senior project manager (drug product) at Novo Nordisk, you will:

Be a member of the Chemistry, Manufacturing, and Control (CMC) Project Core Team, where you will be responsible for planning and coordinating drug product development activities, within your expertise area, and ensuring deliverables according to the project plans within Novo Nordisk and where relevant with CDMOs/CMOs. You will also collaborate with our development project managers in Denmark, as we develop our development pipeline as an integrated, global, development team.

As Senior project manager (drug product), you will be responsible for:

• Management of cross functional drug product activities within Oral Product Development project teams
• Ensuring the development and manufacturing of drug products in clinical development phases
• Together, with specialists, defining a clear drug product development strategy
• Driving the project through the different development stages and collaborating with CMC project core members as well as other areas of the Research & Development organization
• Leading sub-project teams in an engaging and motivating way 
• Communicating and coordinating with stakeholders within and outside of CMC

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate who can demonstrate the following qualifications:

Need to have:

• Education - Scientific education at Master level within a relevant field of expertise
• Have several years’ experience and gained in-depth knowledge of working within Research & Development, drug product development, or Quality Assurance in a pharmaceutical setting
• Have extensive project management experience and qualifications, particularly in mid- to high-complexity projects
• Experience in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry
• Strong organisational and planning skills
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities
• Good collaboration skills, but also ability to work independently 
• Good mediator, who can tackle challenging situations and mitigate risks

Nice to have:

• Familiarity with process development and manufacturing methods
• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to implement process improvements
• Knowledge of tools such as Excel, Smart Sheets, Project Planner, Viso and other planning tools 

About the Department

You will be joining our team in Athlone, Ireland, where we are dedicated to driving excellence in project management. Our department is responsible for managing projects and programs related to general business requirements, specialised/technical areas, and particular industries. We focus on planning, organising, and controlling resources and processes to achieve project objectives within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints.

Our team is dynamic and collaborative, and we value proactive communication and strong stakeholder relationships.

Working at Novo Nordisk 

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact 

For further information please contact hiring manager David Manser, dxym@novonordisk.com or get to know us better by visiting www.novonordisk.com/careers. 

Deadline 

Apply before 15th March 2025.

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.