Manager for a Device Team

Are you passionate about leading high-performing teams and ensuring the quality of innovative medical devices within the Single Dose Device Team at Novo Nordisk? Do you thrive in a dynamic and collaborative environment, driving process optimization and continuous improvement? In this role, you will play a key part in shaping the future of our device platforms, balancing stakeholder needs while maintaining compliance and quality standards. If you are a strong leader with a passion for innovation and excellence, this is your opportunity to make a direct impact on patient care. Join us and take the next step in your career—apply today for a life-changing opportunity! 

The Position 

As the Manager for the Single Dose Device Team, you will be responsible for leading a team of dedicated design control experts and mechanical engineers. Your primary focus will be to ensure the quality and compliance of our marketed device platforms. You will guide and develop your team, optimize processes, and collaborate with stakeholders externally and across the organization. Your role will be pivotal in the continuous product development and upscaling of our production capacities. 

Key Responsibilities will include: 

• Lead a team of design control experts and mechanical engineers, fostering a culture of growth by mentoring, coaching, and guiding team members toward their full potential. 
• Prioritize projects in alignment with organizational goals, efficiently allocating resources to ensure optimal execution and success. 
• Drive continuous improvement by optimizing and standardizing project processes, ensuring operational excellence. 
• Encourage creativity and innovative problem-solving within the team while leading by example with integrity, empathy, and self-reflection. 
• Provide constructive feedback, recognize team achievements, and ensure high performance through effective leadership and support. 

Qualifications 

To succeed in this position, you are: 

• A strong leader with a proven track record of developing and managing high-performing teams and individuals. 
• Experienced within design controls, preferably the lifecycle management processes, operations, regulatory affairs and Quality Assurance.   
• Authentic, empathic and self-reflecting 
• Flexible, communicative, and decisive in complex situations involving both internal and external stakeholders. 

About the Department 

In the Device Development department, we are approximately 100 highly skilled curious professionals and specialists that share the responsibility of the marketed device designs and serves as the link between Device R&D and production. In Device Development, the core task is to maintain marketed products as well as develop new variants of existing product platforms. Our deliverables have direct impact on our ability to deliver to the market, on patients, and on compliance with the requirements of the authorities. 

We foster a culture of learning and growth, where everyone works together and supports each other. Our department is known for its collaborative and explorative atmosphere, where self-driven individuals thrive. You will join a dynamic, international, and innovative environment, where highly skilled professionals work closely together to drive change. 

Working at Novo Nordisk 

At Novo Nordisk Site Hillerød, we are around 4,000 employees developing, producing, and filling injection pens to help patients around the world living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Here we also house a large factory dedicated to the production of life-saving medicine for patients with rare diseases.  

At Site Hillerød we employe a diverse range of talent working across the value chain, and we are growing fast. In fact, we are one of the most rapidly expanding sites in Denmark. For this reason, we have many exciting job opportunities and therefore we are continuously looking for new talented colleagues. Join us and become a part of extraordinary teams implementing new technologies to take our production to new heights and serve even more patients. 

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. Working 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 Senior Manager Line Brøgger at AQLB@novonordisk.com. 

Deadline 

9 March 2025. 

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.