Project Manager for Service Contracts

Are you experienced in driving service contract development? Do you excel in negotiation and strategic partnership building? We are seeking a Project Manager for Service Contracts to join our team and collaborate with supplier management and production sites. If you possess excellent communication and organisational skills, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.
 

The position
As a Project Manager for Service Contracts at Novo Nordisk, I oversee service contract projects from planning to execution, ensuring alignment with business objectives, timelines, and budgets. I develop strategic partnerships to enhance service offerings, lead contract negotiations in collaboration with production sites, supplier management and legal teams, and coordinate with cross-functional teams. Additionally, I monitor contracts to ensure quality standards and successful deliverables. 
Other responsibilities will include:
•    Develop and implement strategies for service contract development and management.
•    Support production sites  with contract frameworks and best practices to ensure vendor collaboration to achieve intended line performance and services that meets fulfilling expectations
•    Collaborate with supplier management and production sites to optimise processes.
•    Negotiate pricing and terms with suppliers to establish strategic partnerships.
•    Monitor contract performance and deliverables to ensure compliance and quality standards.
•    Evaluate potential new contractors and assess their service capability and to participate in the development of documentation for contractor manuals.
 

Qualifications
As a person, you show a great degree of responsibility and independence whilst you possess excellent communication and collaboration skills, acting between and serving many stakeholders, which requires a flexible attitude.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
•    Over 5 years of experience in service contract management and development, ensuring projects meet scope, time, and budget requirements.
•    Strong negotiation skills with a proven ability to develop strategic partnerships and enhance service offerings.
•    Fluent in English (spoken and written) with excellent communication and organizational abilities.
•    Expertise in monitoring contract performance and deliverables to ensure compliance with quality and regulatory standards.
•    Familiarity with supplier management and production processes, contributing to efficient contract execution.
 

About the department
FPM Engineering is part of Finished Product Manufacturing (FPM), with a dedicated team of around 50 colleagues. We work collaboratively to support and optimise processes across all global sites. Our primary responsibility is to drive performance in FPM on all assembly and packaging lines, ensuring best practices. Located at our headquarters, we are committed to bringing value to our patients by supporting all sites with process standardisation, ramp-up excellence, and technological leadership.
 

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. At Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.
 

Contact
For further information, please contact Director Johan Paulsson on jzjp@novonordisk.com.
 

Deadline
20 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.