Product Transfer Senior Project Manager

Are you a talented project manager and would you like to work with talented colleagues? Do you want to lead strategic expansion projects with high impact for Novo Nordisk? Do you enjoy delivering in close cooperation with internal and external stakeholders? 
 

This is an exquisite chance for you as Product Transfer Senior Project Manager to use and expand your experience within project management, while employing your knowledge of pharmaceutic products and production, in a multifaceted stakeholder environment. 
 

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The Position
As a Product Transfer Project Manager, you will be empowered and responsible for introducing our new products to our internal and external production network ensuring to meet patients demand. 
 

Your main responsibilities will include: 

• Technical transfer of the product together with your team of subject matter experts and the production site project manager. The projects are cross-functional assignments with key influence in and deliveries to the production. 
• Working closely together with regulatory affairs and manufacturing sites across the world. 
• Setting the direction for your project team ensuring that deliverables and strategies are executed. 
• Creating transparent plans and communicating these to stakeholders.

As a Product Transfer Project Manager, you are driven and ambitious, and you thrive in a high paced and dynamic environment where your actions make an impact. While being assertive, you are able to use your leadership skills to ensure progress in an international stakeholder landscape.
 

You will be working out of Bagsværd, Denmark and depending on the projects there will be 1-4 weeks traveling per year.

Qualifications
We are looking for someone who can inspire and energize their surroundings, establish clear and ambitious goals, and work closely together with project team members and stakeholders. Our ideal candidate is good at building relations, has strong interpersonal skills, and can navigate in a complex stakeholder landscape.
 

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

• BSc, MSC Degree or equivalent in science, engineering, pharmacy, or another similar field. 
• A solid background within project management leading complex projects within aseptic production, or other relevant disciplines within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in leading product transfers within the pharma- or biotech industry.
• The necessary skills to thrive in a high-pace and dynamic workday, prioritizing and creating transparency for your project and ensuring you always keep the overview.
• Fluency in English language.

As a person, you have a high degree of can-do mindset and drive, and you can challenge the existing way of doing things. Your energy, pro-activity, and willingness to make a difference and optimise processes can be seen in your daily work. You communicate and collaborate with empathy across cultures and functions, and your leadership behaviour foster positive interactions with project team members and stakeholders. 

About the department
AMSAT Manufacturing Science & Transfers is a dynamic business area, consisting of 135 employees. The area provides site transfers, site support, and improvement projects of diverse complexity to the global organization. An elevated level of process knowledge is anchored in the department.
As a Product Transfer Senior Project Manager, you will be a part of a team consisting of 11 project managers and transfer SME’s and scientists. We are an ambitious and high performing team known for delivering strong results that add to the success by driving improvement and optimisation projects in close cooperation with our global production sites. We share a relaxed tone and great ambitions.

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.
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.
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what is important at different stages of our career 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 is 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 Søren Alvarez Utoft, Senior Manager at +45 30759981  

Deadline
11 March 2025
 

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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.