Operational Process Lead

Would you like to be a part of shaping the future of manufacturing? Are you motivated by leading the Assembly process to excellence across our global sites and do you have exceptional skills in stakeholder management?
 
If so, come join us as Operational Process Lead for Assembly process in our business unit FPM Engineering!

Read and apply!
 

The Position

As an Operational Process Lead for Assembly process, you will be the operational lead of the process across our global manufacturing sites in the FP network. Thus, you will collaborate with stakeholders both locally and globally and work closely with our Process Manager for Assembly process, whom you will indirectly report too. You will be a key member of the process group where you have the role of understanding shopfloor across our production sites and be the translator of how strategy projects will impact shopfloor and hereby ensure initiating of actions and projects that benefit production. All new standard assembly lines will be in focus for this work where you will play a key role in keeping standards standard throughout the lifetime of them. 

Travelling to other sites for longer periods should be expected aside from the virtual collaboration. You need to be close to shopfloor across FP sites located in Europe, North America and Asia to understand needs and act as a liaison between Process groups and production to ensure alignment on process initiatives and roll out of upgrades.

Your main focus will be on:

•    Analyze process to identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement, identify risks associated with process changes and initiate mitigation strategies and drive various initiatives to support this direction.

•    Keep standards standard across the fleet of standard lines across our global production network while still finding ways of improving the process. 
•    Working close with the Assembly Process Manager and collaborate with other groups (improvement groups, different network groups, other process groups etc.) and in close collaboration with our global organization. 

•    Working with various stakeholders along the value stream.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:

• A MSc or equivalent within engineering or similar field.
• At least 5-7 years of experience within manufacturing with some of the years being within or close to the Assembly process related to GxP production.
• Experience with project management within a global stakeholder landscape.
• Leadership experience is an advange.
• Track record in creating followership through changes in how we work.
• Experience within GxP regulated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment.
• Preferably you will work from one of our productions sites, Chartres (France), Clayton (US) or Denmark (HI) where we will get the first standard Assembly lines.
• Professional proficiency in English.

As a person, you thrive in fast-paced environments while consistently delivering high-quality work. You excel in cross-cultural collaboration and bring practical expertise in assembly processes, with hands-on experience in LEAN methodologies. You have the ability to lead stakeholders indirectly. With a background in business strategy, project management, and implementation within a global organization, you are a dedicated team player with a proactive 'can-do' attitude. You’re driven to continuously learn, innovate, and enhance process efficiency.

About the Department

FPM Engineering is a part of Finished Product Manufacturing (FPM) with a team of around 50 colleagues working together to support and optimize processes across all global sites. Our primary responsibility is to drive performance in FPM on all assembly and packaging lines to ensure best practices. 

In FPM Engineering, we are committed to bringing value to our patients. We do so by supporting all sites with process standardization, ramp-up excellence and technological leadership enabling Novo Nordisk to serve significantly more patients in need of our products. 

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 Mikala Lindbæk Stormly (Director) at msry@novonordisk.com or +45-30753765.

Deadline

15 April 2025.

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.