Senior Manager

Are you an empathetic and empowering leader ready to bring your leadership career to the next level? Would you like to put your people management and stakeholder relations building skills to good use? If yes, you may be one of the two Senior Managers we are looking for, both newly established positions, to head up our Global Contract Manufacturing, Drug Substance (GCM DS) Manufacturing Science and Technology teams (MSAT). We implement new production of some of the key products manufactured at contract manufacturers across the world. The area handles high-profile products in Novo Nordisk with high expectations to solid growth in the coming years. Apply today and be part of this journey!

The position

As Senior Manager your focus will be to lead a growing unit of professionals and specialists responsible for implementing new production at new or existing Contract Manufacturing Organisations (CMOs) within Drug Substance.

Your main responsibilities include:

• Overseeing a team of currently six highly educated and dedicated professionals and specialists, with plans to expand the team further in the coming months and years, as the global footprint of CMOs is growing
• Ensuring the focus on Drug Substance, covering various custom-made materials used in our internal API manufacturing plants and finished products manufactured globally, both internally and externally
• Working closely with your team to ensure coherence and alignment of operating standards in both teams, following the split of the current MSAT department into two sub-teams
• Be a sparring partner for your people, while having a focus on empowerment
• Collaborating closely with a broad range of stakeholders including Global Strategic Outsourcing unit, the management teams of the CMOs as well as other internal Novo Nordisk departments, covering e.g. Quality and Subject Matter Experts
• Playing a pivotal role in setting the direction for CMOs in implementation phase with a focus on quality, facility and equipment as well as ensuring competences at the CMO are maintained

You will report directly to the head of MSAT Drug Substance.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

• Hold a master’s degree in chemistry, pharmacy, engineering or another relevant field
• Have at least 5 years of direct people management experience
• Possess a scientific background
• Familiar with cGMP requirements
• Are fluent in English, both written and spoken

As a person, you thrive in engaging, motivating, and inspiring your employees to perform in a dynamic and international environment. You are there for your employees, you help ensure psychological safety in the department. You possess good communication skills and a structured approach, which allow you to gain commitment from both internal and external stakeholders. Finally, you have a strong quality mindset and the ability to make decisions.

About the department

Global Contract Manufacturing Drug Substance (DS) MSAT is responsible for implementing new production at existing or new CMOs in the global network of DS CMOs in Novo Nordisk. We are responsible for the CMO facility, equipment and the production through process validation. We are currently engaged in more than 20 projects, ranging from small molecules, peptide synthesis, oligonucleotides through to fermentation production. We also work with materials from starting materials to full API production. The number of projects is expected to grow heavily in the coming years. Our main task is together with the CMO ensure that we transfer the production process, making the CMO ready for validation activities and ensure the process is documented and finally approved. Thereafter we transfer the responsibility to our Operations manager colleagues and continue to support the production when issues arise.

You will join a department of 15 (and still growing) highly dedicated and talented colleagues, where we have an informal and direct tone and where we value each other’s differences.

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 call Thomas Lindblad, Director GCM DS MSAT, at +45 3075 5179.

Deadline

19 May 2024.

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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.