• Manufacturing
• Hillerød

You want to head a department invested in finding, developing and implementing the very initiatives that will make us step into a circular, greener future using the best digital methods. You have the skills to understand a very complex infrastructure and how to achieve the ambitious Novo Nordisk strategy of Circular for Zero, and the leadership skills to set a clear direction for dedicated and talented colleagues. Altogether, you are ready to take your next step in a life-career, where we can make a difference together. We look forward to welcome you and give you the opportunities, you are looking for.

About the department
In the DMS Digital Transformation & cLEAN® department, we are trusted with the responsibility to discover, develop and implement the digital solutions that will make us the digital lighthouse we strive to be. We bring value to a truly global organisation by providing solutions that take us closer to the ambition of having no environmental impact at all, and still maintain a cost-effective setup at the highest level of quality. Asides from infrastructural knowledge and experience with complex technological setups, this demands scrutinous analysis and calibration of our work culture, aligning how we do things on an site-organisational level. This is why we are also responsible for implementing LEAN tools in the line of business.

The position
Overall, you will be in charge of our digital transformation, ensuring the establishment and execution of a concise digital roadmap. You will be heading daily program management and support scaling across areas while performing strong and respectful leadership for your department in general.

Innovation and development are integral to success in this position. You will be creating and maintaining an environment that allows for methodical creativity to discover and develop the ideas that will add to our success story in a future that is constantly changing and that your team can be a part of defining. Your role modelling and energetic leadership will motivate the people around you to be the best they can be, because they feel safe, supported and challenged by you on a daily basis. You will have the means to make a difference, being responsible for a budget in the single digit million-dollar class.

The impact of this job goes hand in hand with leadership responsibility – making you a very visible person in our part of the organisation. Not only will you be conducting daily board meetings and frequently tour the shop floor, you will also be setting the specific goals that take us into the future – ensuring that scope and timely deliveries are maintained throughout complex processes where priorities may change along the way.

Finally, as part of your overall responsibilities, you will lead our LEAN effort throughout our part of the organisation and further when needed. You will drive cultural change through your understanding of our value chain, your clear analysis of needs, risks and opportunities and your empathetic and yet challenging leadership.
Around ten specialists, academics and interns will report directly to you, and you will be trusted with their professional growth and development within the business goals you set. You will mainly be working from our site in Hillerød, but some travel activity should be expected, both domestically to our sister sites and internationally when you collaborate with external vendors.

Qualifications
We imagine you hold a Master’s degree within a relevant field like Engineering, Business, IT or Economics. After this, you have proven your analytical skills throughout a career within manufacturing, external consultancy or inhouse consultancy, having at least 3-5 years of experience with digital transformation journeys, LEAN implementation and process improvement in a multi-site sized organisation. But most importantly, you have acquired extensive leadership experience, handling cultural transformations and reaching ambitious goals in a large organisation like ours with all the cross-area concerns and stakeholder management that goes with it.
Since we are motivated to hold a strong sense of ethical responsibility, we expect you to lead through role-modelling with respect, trust and nuanced cultural understanding while ensuring we reach our ambitious goals in a timely fashion so as to employ our resources in the best possible way.

When we meet, we will already know part of the reason for your previous successes – your natural leadership presence and analytic skills will be obvious to us when you demonstrate your previous victories and how you see an organisation like ours moving forward. Your communication skills will make it clear to us that you will build trustful relations with ease across geographical, professional and cultural distances and ensure clear goal-, role- and task understanding in your everyday practise.

Lastly, your curiosity may be another key to your success. When possible, you find yourself consumed by interesting discussion about technological opportunities, operational difficulties or even strategic directions – which may be why you have always been able to learn so much about value chains, processes, bottlenecks and all the little details that make it all work, so quickly. How you still maintain a crisp overview may remain a riddle to us as far as we are concerned, but never-the-less, you will impress us with how well-informed you are about complex manufacturing setups like ours.

Contact
If your curiosity has not yet been satisfied regarding this position, please feel free to call Thomas Emerik Rasmussen at 3079 8320

Deadline
August 9, 2020

Millions rely on us
To work for Novo Nordisk you will need the skills, dedication and ambition to change lives for the better for millions of patients living with diabetes and other chronical diseases. In exchange, we offer the chance to be part of a truly global workplace, where passion and engagement are met with opportunities for professional and personal development.