Environmental Partner

Are you passionate about protecting the environment using a systematic approach? Are you motivated by partnering with a complex project group consisting of internal and external partners working to design, drive, and follow up on solutions that fit both authorities’ requirements and our challenges? And are you looking for an opportunity to use your competences to bring Novo Nordisk Pharmatech (NNPR) closer to our ambition of zero environmental impact by 2030 through Circular for Zero? 

Then here is a great opportunity to join a dedicated team and to become part of our exciting journey to grow and upscale our business via a new brown field project in Køge in a sustainable way.    

The position
As an Environmental Partner to a brown field project, you have the following responsibilities:

• Set direction for and drive our daily processes within the environment, e.g., establish permits and collaborate with relevant authorities, waste handling, wastewater handling, managing CO2 emissions, protection and monitoring of soil and ground water, energy, and water consumption
• Establish an economic and sustainability assessment to improve circularity throughout the project
• Collaborate with stakeholders, project members and specialists across the project organisation to ensure effective and efficient execution of tasks within Environment
• As part of your daily routine, you will also support the other areas in the project by attending workshops and relevant meetings to ensure environmental aspects are raised, and having daily dialogues with various stakeholders and partners to establish professional relationships quickly and effectively
• Proficiency in aligning and raising environmental issues within a complex project involving multiple stakeholders and areas, while in parallel ensuring that the project aligns with NNPR’s sustainability strategy.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• Minimum relevant master’s degree within environmental engineering, environmental science and legislation, sustainability or similar
• Full working proficiency in both Danish and English, both orally and written
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with environmental work, ideally from pharmaceutical/biopharmaceutical production and laboratory environment.
• Prior experience of working with a variety of internal and external stakeholders

 
As an individual, you are driven, with an optimistic attitude that enables you to pursue key focus areas and achieve results. Furthermore, you have experience in communication and training that allows you to translate complex subjects in a simple way to a diverse group of people. You have a qualitative and analytical mindset giving you a proactive, structured, and systematic approach to tasks. Finally, your colleagues see you as highly motivated, flexible, and friendly, but also persistent and able to get things done.

About the department
You will join the Sustainability Partnering department at NNPR, collaborating with two teams: the Environment team and the Health & Safety team, alongside professional managers within the project portfolio and Sustainability. Focusing specifically on the Environment team, we are a dedicated group of 9 employees who work diligently to support NNPR. We place a strong emphasis on fostering a diverse and inclusive mindset, while also prioritizing a fun and inquisitive working environment.

Novo Nordisk Pharmatech A/S is a 100% owned subsidiary of Novo Nordisk located in Køge. We are more than 400 people covering the entire value chain from R&D and Business Development to Manufacturing, Marketing and Sales. NNPR is a global and leading manufacturer of pharmaceutical ingredients for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Our purpose is to enable better medicines by providing sustainable pharmaceutical materials through innovative and customized solutions. Our product range consists of Quaternary ammonium compounds (Quats), Recombinant Insulin, Customized Purification Resins, and Specialty Enzymes.

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 63,000 employees around the world. We recognize 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
If you would like to know more about the position, please contact Kjertan Lyster, the manager of the Environment department at +45 31 97 00 70

Deadline

Please apply no later than 18/02/2025

Applications will be evaluated continuously, and candidates may be called for an interview before the deadline, so please apply as soon as you can. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation in on your CV or resume. Additionally, please do not attach photos to your CV as this allows for a better and more fair process.
 
 

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.