Expansion Sustainability Lead

Are you experienced in driving sustainability in CAPEX projects? Do you have a passion for reducing environmental impact, up-to-date knowledge of new legal requirements, and the ability to translate strategic sustainability ambitions into tangible actions with meaningful results? Join us in Emerging Technology in our Sustainability & Safety team! We're looking for someone who can navigate these challenges while transforming our sustainability goals into impactful outcomes. Read more and become our next colleague to make a real difference!

The Position

We are expanding our manufacturing capacity to meet greater demand and a more diverse product and technology mix, and ensuring sustainable solutions is more important than ever. In this role, you will contribute to reducing the environmental footprint of our production activities and support the achievement of our ambitious environmental targets while ensuring compliance with external requirements. You will play a key role in integrating sustainability principles into the design, execution, and evaluation of expansion projects in a systematic and structured way. You will:

• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders to define and embed sustainability considerations (energy, water, waste, nature/biodiversity) into greenfield/brownfield expansion projects, from initial design to post-construction evaluation.

• Stay abreast of developing environmental regulations as EU Taxonomy, industry standards, best practices, and ESG reporting requirements to ensure compliant, sustainable expansions.

• Develop and implement sustainability metrics to track the environmental impact of expansion projects and provide regular reporting to assess impact and progress to target.

• Engage with internal and external stakeholders and industry partners to ensure alignment with sustainable development goals and translate these and strategic ambitions for key project stakeholders.

• Establish Novo Nordisk standards for best practice for sustainable expansion projects, incorporating industry-leading approaches and innovative techniques.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Engineering, or a related field.

• Minimum 3 years of relevant specialist experience - proven experience in sustainability management.

• Ideally experience with a focus on expansion projects within construction or real estate industry and experience in project management.

• Familiarity with sustainable building certifications such as DGNB, LEED, or equivalent standards is a plus.

• Strong understanding of environmental regulations and sustainability reporting requirements, ideally including knowledge of CSRD and EU taxonomy.

Personally, you need to have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and prioritize your work while collaborating with colleagues. You need to be highly motivated, energetic, and willing to take the initiative. Your passion for sustainability and a demonstrated commitment to advancing environmentally responsible practices will be important to succeed. Fluency in English and Danish, both written and spoken are required for this role.

About the department

You will be joining  our Sustainability & Safety team in Emerging technology, located at our offices in Taastrup. We are part of the PSQIT organization, a modern technology organization driving Novo Nordisk's purpose to deliver the highest quality to patients in an efficient and sustainable way.

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. 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 Michelle Bøgh Thalund, SVP Environmental Partner at: +45-34440815

Deadline

23 March 2025

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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.