CVP Safety Partner

Do you thrive in developing innovative solutions to complex safety challenges? Are you excited by the prospect of working on challenging safety projects in a dynamic business environment like Corporate Facilities? Are you motivated by partnering with stakeholders across the entire business area and implementing pragmatic and robust solutions? Would you like to drive H&S initiatives, implement best practices, and uphold NN’s commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy workplace? 

If so, then this is your opportunity. We are looking for a CVP Safety Partner to join our dynamic team in Corporate Facilities. Apply now for a life-changing career! 

The position 

As a CVP Safety Partner in Corporate Facilities, you will be responsible for driving the agenda on safety matters and collaborating across an organisation of 300+ people and be the key safety advisor to management. You are responsible for ensuring that the current setup across the organisation meets both requirements and ambitions on H&S.  

Your responsibilities will include:  

• Set directions and deliver impactful results on safety providing advice and support to management 
• Based on strategic direction, plan, drive, coordinate, and track safety changes and better practices across the business area 
• Prepare data analyses, materials and presentations and report on safety status to management and other key stakeholders, while ensuring compliance with legislation and relevant requirements 
• Ensure required safety processes are running and relevant SOPs are followed while managing processes to meet relevant standards, ensuring audit and inspection readiness 
• Leading and training root-cause analysis efforts for high-priority cases across CVP area 

You will coordinate and drive the implementation of initiatives within the safety strategy; therefore it is important that you demonstrate indirect leadership abilities, strong networking and political skills, and cross-organisational coordination to consult and advise senior management and H&S Coordinators in Corporate Facilities. 

This position is based in our headquarter in Bagsvaerd, with potential travels to our other sites in DK.  

Qualifications 

To succeed in this role, you have the following qualifications:  

• Ideally relevant master’s degree and specific courses, along with minimum 4-5 years of professional experience as a Safety Partner/coordinator or professional in a large global organisation, preferably from facilities management, construction, Oil & Gas, drilling or aviation industry 
• Cross-functional work experience within saferty or H&S, with exposure to close collaboration with senior leadership 
• Familiarity with basic safety concepts, techniques and tools, as well as Lean methodologies and root root-cause analysis
• Ability to negotiate the right H&S solutions while balancing H&S response with other business needs, and an interest in both strategic and hands-on tasks  
• Excellent stakeholder management skills and verbal and written communication skills in English

On a personal level, you have a proactive, innovative, and solution-oriented approach, combined with a systematic method for timely and professional execution. You possess the ability to drive tasks forward and ensure results. Additionally, you are analytical, organized, and have strong interpersonal skills and diplomatic approach, enabling you to build and maintain networks effectively. 

About the department 

Business Development & Support is part of Corporate Facilities with around 300 colleagues from countless professional fields make up Corporate Facilities, which is anchored in the area Finance, Legal and Global Solutions. We enable Novo Nordisk to focus on the core business by delivering simple and agile solutions for physical infrastructures (campuses, real estate, utilities, workplaces), facility management services as well as security operations, while progressing a major project portfolio. We create tangible business results by partnering with all areas of the business. What we do impacts all Novo Nordisk’s Danish colleagues – we care for their workday. We give a high level of responsibility from day one and you will experience a continuous steep learning curve, where your aspirations set the boundaries. 

In Corporate Facilities we work with proactively creating win-win solutions with internal and external stakeholders in the areas we operate in, while ensuring engaging communications about our 130+ services to our 22,000+ colleagues across our Danish locations.    

Working at Novo Nordisk 

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re 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’re all working to move the needle on patient care. 

Deadline 

12 January 2025. 

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.