Associate Manager

Are you ready to lead our Environmental Monitoring support team positioned in the Aseptic Manufacturing area at Novo Nordisk’s production site in Kalundborg?

Are you motivated by delivering life-essential medicine to patients globally? If you want to make a difference, we are ready to offer you an exciting opportunity. Apply today!

The Position

As Associate Manager, you will lead a team of 18 dedicated supporters. You can look forward to a job where you will have the opportunity to gain in-depth knowledge of the production processes at Novo Nordisk, as well as business understanding. Our production runs 24 hours a day, every day. The team is responsible for monitoring the aseptic environment in the facility, batch documentation, and providing support to production on EM-related tasks.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• Maintain an overview, follow up on team deliveries and performance, and set direction for your team.

• Guide the team to solve tasks correctly in a complex environment.

• Coordinate and share experiences across teams and departments.

• Collaborate with the rest of the leadership group.

• Develop employees and ensure engagement through visible and present leadership.

• Hold overall responsibility for cleaning in the facility.

As a member of the management team, you will be a front-runner in the department and demonstrate the right behaviours.

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, you:

• Have solid people management experience.

• Have several years of production experience.

• Possess knowledge of GMP and LEAN.

• Speak Danish and English fluently.

Moreover, you understand managerial challenges and are familiar with complex processes and issues. If your team is not functioning as desired, you know how to resolve conflicts and cooperation difficulties to ensure a psychologically safe environment. You possess a well-developed analytical mindset, which you use to make data-driven decisions and implement effective solutions.

About the Department

You will be part of the EM department. We are approximately 100 employees in the department and around 650 employees at the site. We are a relatively new factory in an exciting phase, where we continue to ramp up while also focusing on stability and optimization.

An aseptic production environment like ours requires attention to cleanliness, safety, and precision to ensure the delivery of high-quality products to our patients. We work with the following processes: environmental monitoring, washing and sterilization, preparation, aseptic filling, freeze-drying, and inspection. We also use cLEAN as a key tool for continuous improvement.

We always aspire to operate through effective, solid, and transparent processes—allowing each colleague to deliver on our promise, meet quality standards, and have fun in the process.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear, and balancing what matters at different stages of our careers is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations—always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring, and we continuously work to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk means working toward something bigger than ourselves—and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Line Thaulov Østergaard at +45 3075 5779.

Deadline

Apply before May 18, 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 résumé or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo to 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.