Senior Project Manager

Are you an authentic person, passionate about leadership in a fast-changing environment? Do you have a strategic mindset and solid change management skills to help develop the area of executions of programs?

If this resonates with you, we are looking forward to welcoming you in our newly established project Center of Excellence (COE) within Assembly and Pack in Device Manufacturing and Development (DMD). Apply today!

The Position

As Senior Project Manager, you will be driving the development and deployment of the future project execution strategy across the whole Product Supply Quality and IT unit, which is composed of 5 areas and 17 sites.

Some of your main activities include:

• Participating in establishing our new Project/Program COE, developing the project execution capability, methods, and training project managers
• Ensuring clear communication about the strategic direction and securing buy in from our many stakeholders
• Guaranteeing that projects initiated follow the project operating model for the area
• Collaborating with subject matter experts and peer project managers to drive improvements and lean project execution
• Continuously optimizing the overall governance framework, ensuring a clear definition of the roles and responsibilities between Steering Group, Portfolio Group, Project Owner, Program Manager, and the project group

Your role also involves promoting knowledge sharing and ensure training throughout the project organization and fostering best practices that impact the development of our project operating model.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

• Hold a degree in business, engineering, or any other relevant field
• Demonstrate experience with Project Management, Program Management, and driving strategic investment projects in a global stakeholder landscape
• Showcase adept change management and innovation abilities
• Possess strong presentations skills, especially at Management and Sr. Management level
• Display fluency in both written and spoken English

As a person, you possess the ability to see the greater picture in a complex and dynamic environment where changes in priorities, projects, and timing can occur. You have a clear understanding of what it means to boost value creation through innovation and know how to leverage your business acumen on the journey. You enjoy finding pragmatic ways to solve challenges and co-creating sustainable solutions with stakeholders across the organization. Last but not least, your excellent communication skills allow you to obtain strong partnerships.

About the Department

As our new Project Manager, you can look forward to an exciting job leading a highly engaged team, as well as engaging with and creating consensus among multiple stakeholders at global and local level. As high potential collaborator in the department, you will be able to take up a lot of responsibility and gain support to develop. You can expect to grow both on a personal and professional level.

You will be met by colleagues with positive and agile mindsets, who will share from their experience on how to improve processes and quality for the future demands.  In DMD Packaging, we are diverse in many ways: internationals and Danes, with variety in our educational backgrounds, many years of experience, as well as recently graduated. 

Packaging is a large department within DMD. DMD is responsible for the industrialisation of all medical devices at Novo Nordisk. We are an end-to-end corporate organisation developing products for high volume production, establishing control strategy of the products, improving, and implementing the production equipment at the production sites in different parts of the world. Finally, it is our ambition to drive change by discovering and putting in practice novel digital solutions to our processes.

Working at Novo Nordisk

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.

Contact

For further information, please contact Director Claus Florman Larsen at +45 3075 0064.

Deadline

21 May 2024.

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.