Portfolio Manager, Future Aseptic Production Cleanroom

Are you a skilled project coordinator or portfolio manager with a passion for driving innovation and future-ready digitalization with simple solutions? Would you like to utilize your skills to positively impact leaders and employees across the organization? Do you want to grow and expand your capabilities while leading the way in coordinating projects?

If yes, join us and shape the future of aseptic cleanrooms across Novo Nordisk Product Supply!

The position
As the Portfolio Manager for the “Future cleanroom” program, you will be responsible for coordinating various projects within the program. Each project will have its own project manager, and your role will be to ensure that all projects are aligned and progressing towards the program's goals. The primary stakeholders for this role will be project managers and leaders across the organization.

Your main responsibilities will be focused on:
•    Managing global stakeholders across development and operations areas
•    Facilitating collaboration and ensure progress and alignment on projects
•    Ensuring projects are supporting the roadmap and identify new innovation opportunities together with key stakeholders 

Qualifications
To be a competitive candidate, you should have:
•    A master's degree with a technical or scientific background and, at least, 5 years of experience as a project manager or portfolio manager, preferably within pharmaceutical production
•    Excellent stakeholder management skills
•    The ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
•    Proven track record of implementing cross-organizational projects
•    Fully proficient in both written and spoken English

As a person, you should be ambitious, adaptable to change, and politically savvy with an ability know our stakeholders and create engagement in a group. You should have strong business acumen and be able to communicate effectively with senior-level managers. You should also be recognized as a strong collaborator and facilitator. Subject matter expertise within aseptic production is an advantage.

About the department
Our team consists of approximately 12 highly motivated and dedicated specialists and experts working within the area Facility and Training. Within this team, there is a smaller group of individuals who work specifically on the Future AP Cleanroom project, and they will be your closest colleagues.

Manufacturing Development is a part of Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) with a team of over 650 colleagues working together to optimize and develop processes across six global production sites. Our field of work broadly covers the area also known as MSAT (Manufacturing, Science, and Technology). We bring value to our patients by driving innovation for the entire BRD, working with Industry 4.0, new technologies, biotechnology, and developing processes for both existing and future products.
 
Working at BRD, Novo Nordisk
BRD is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD, we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk. 

We are more than 3000 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology.

Contact
For further information, please contact Thais Vilgren, Senior Specialist, at +45 3075 2596 or Christopher Holst Nerild, Senior Manager, at +45 3075 2630.  

Deadline
20 May 2024. 
 

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.