Area Process Manager, Wash & Sterilisation

Area Process Manager, Wash & Sterilisation

Are you motivated by leading global process excellence across 11 manufacturing sites, navigating a complex stakeholder landscape to drive strategic improvements that ensure millions of patients receive the life-saving medicines they need, then keep reading! This is a great opportunity to join Aseptic Manufacturing Engineering (AME), Process Excellence. 

Your new role

As Area Process Manager for Wash & Sterilisation, you'll be at the forefront of optimising critical aseptic manufacturing processes across our global network. This is a role where your expertise directly impacts product quality, process efficiency, and ultimately, patient safety on a global scale. You'll navigate a large, diverse stakeholder landscape, driving change and continuous improvement across functions, cultures, and organisational levels.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead the development and continuous improvement of Wash & Sterilisation processes across 11 Aseptic Manufacturing (AM) sites globally. This role also covers future expansion projects beyond these sites—from handover through integration into the production network and post‑integration support
• Building and maintaining a portfolio of improvement initiatives, securing buy-in from leaders, process responsible and SMEs across a complex stakeholder landscape by incorporating both Novo Nordisk/AM and industry best practices
• Driving timely execution and clear communication across cross-functional stakeholders to align projects with manufacturing needs and regulatory compliance
• Leading the Area Process Group and core process group within AM, ensuring prioritisation of risks and benefits while incorporating input from sites across different regions and cultures

As an Area Process Manager, you represent the AM organisation in all matters related to Wash & Sterilisation, providing mentorship and influencing strategic decisions across Product Supply AM, CMC, GCM and Quality. You will also be facilitating change management and knowledge sharing across diverse international teams, ensuring best practice implementation respecting local contexts while maintaining global standards. Additionally, you will represent AM in the Novo Nordisk Corporate Process Groups.

Your new department

You'll be part of AME Process Excellence (part of CMC & PS), a dynamic and innovative department responsible for leading the journey towards process excellence across the Product Supply AM network of sites. With a global scope, we work across diverse sites and cultures to implement industry-leading standards in a fast-paced, collaborative atmosphere with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and innovation.

In CMC & Product Supply, we cover the full value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo Nordisk products. We are more than 30,000 colleagues across the globe with the shared responsibility of processes, devices, and products, dedicated to supplying life-saving medicines to the patients who need them most.

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for an experienced process professional who thrives in a global, complex environment and has the leadership skills to drive change across a large stakeholder landscape spanning multiple cultures and organisational levels.

• Holds an academic degree
• Solid hands-on experience within Wash & Sterilisation (minimum 3 years)
• Strong project management experience, preferably driving a portfolio of improvements in a global organisation
• Proven ability to navigate a large stakeholder landscape, creating buy-in and fostering excellent collaboration across diverse cultural environments and organisational levels
• Demonstrated capability in driving and facilitating change across functions, geographies, and organisational hierarchies
• Strong international understanding with the ability to work effectively across different cultures, time zones, and business contexts

We expect you have strong GMP knowledge with a solid understanding of the regulatory landscape in pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as experience with process improvement methodologies such as cLEAN, BPM, or Six Sigma. To succeed in this role, it is important that you possess excellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to engage and align stakeholders at all levels internationally

Contact

Do you have questions or would you like to know more? Then please contact Claes Larsen (Associate Process Director) on phone +45 3077 6004 or David Meisch (Associate Director) on phone +45 30758699. 

Work location

Lyngby, Greater Copenhagen area, Denmark

Deadline

Deadline is 16 March. We look forward to receiving your application. 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. 

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.