LEAN Partner

Are you enthusiastic about participating in continuous improvement initiatives and fostering an exceptional LEAN culture within Novo Nordisk? Can you cultivate a LEAN mindset to ad-vance our managers and employees to new levels of LEAN excellence? Are you passionate about continuously improving our ways of working? Does the idea of enabling data-driven decision-making through visual management sound exciting to you?
If so, then the position as LEAN Partner at Novo Nordisk Site Tietgen in Odense might just be right for you!

The Position
At Novo Nordisk Site Tietgen in Odense, LEAN represents more than just a set of tools; it embodies a culture and mindset that are continuously evolving within our organization. As a new Lean Partner, you will become part of a group of LEAN partners supporting the area. Your primary responsibility will involve leading lean initiatives, enhancing the organization's lean maturity, and being primary driver of the Lean integration of our new site in Odense.

Your main tasks will include:
•    Implementing and enhancing lean systems or tools to address business challenges.
•    Ensure strong ownership of above systems in Line of Business, to secure proper sustainability.
•    Facilitating initiation and execution of problem solving and process mapping activities.
•    Driving LEAN initiatives, building robust processes and ensuring efficient communication between stakeholders.

Additionally, you will be part of a lean network across the business unit and will participate in cross-organizational lean projects.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should have: 
•    A strong LEAN toolbox and proven track record of delivering results within a manufacturing and a project environment.
•    A minimum of five years of relevant experience.
•    You have experience in implementing optimization projects and naturally involve and motivate your customers.
•    Excellent change management and stakeholder management skills at all levels.
•    Hands-on experience in improving and adapting lean tools and approaches to current business needs.
•    Full proficiency in spoken and written Danish and English.
As an individual, you are positive, collaborative and solution orientated, and you work systematically, logically, and proactively. You can interact and communicate effectively at all levels of the organization, and you take pride in solving your tasks and challenges with close involvement of key stakeholders. On a personal level, you are a team player, but you are also comfortable working independently when coaching and challenging leaders. 
 

About the Department 

NN Odense is expanding capacity for Novo Nordisk and will soon start construction of a new modern warehouse. The purpose of the organisation is to secure products to market in 2027, and a modern and efficient warehouse is key to success. You will be part of a dedicated team working in a dynamic and fast-paced environment to achieve our goals.

You will become part of the Operational Readiness department that ensures that our future operations is ready when the facility is. It covers different disciplines such as Training, QMS, Maintenance, LEAN, Ramp-Up, Standard Operations and more. The team you will be joining is called cLEAN, Ramp Up and Business Readiness. In this team there are currently additional LEAN partners, who you will be working closely with, and more will be hired in as we get closer to operations.
 

To learn more, visit our career site here: www.novonordisk.com/site-odense-careers.

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 Rasmus Rovelt Andreasen, Senior Project Manager on rran@novonordisk.com.
 
Deadline
10 March 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 resume 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.