Director, Head of Systems Engineering

• Engineering
• Hillerød

Head of Systems Engineering

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to put your technical, strategic and leadership skills into action in a critical and growing function? Then you might be the new Head of Systems Engineering in our Devices & Delivery Solutions team.

Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company with more than 95 years of innovation and leadership in diabetes care. This heritage has given us experience and capabilities that also enable us to help people defeat obesity, haemophilia, growth disorders and other serious chronic diseases. Headquartered in Denmark, Novo Nordisk employs over 43,000 people in 80 countries, and markets its products in more than 170 countries.

About the department

In Devices & Delivery Solutions, we are more than 300 colleagues who design and develop innovative delivery and connectivity devices and digital therapeutic solutions for the Novo Nordisk drug pipeline. Only by considering what is valuable from a patient perspective can we help people live a life with as few limitations as possible. That’s what we call empathy-driven innovation.

Delivery and connectivity devices support patients in taking the right dose, in the right way, at the right time, while digital therapeutics enable a more meaningful dialogue between the patient and health care provider. This leads to improved outcomes which in turn means that patients are further supported in following their treatment regimes. To ensure this development journey our delivery and connectivity systems are developed in close collaboration between patients and the scientific discovery teams across Novo Nordisk.

The Head of Systems Engineering is a member of the Delivery Systems Engineering leadership team and overall accountable for deliverables related to the system development of our combination products and connected drug delivery solutions. We are looking for an experienced, self-driven person to lead and drive our function and to play a central role in developing combination products and connected drug delivery solutions.

The position

The Head of Systems Engineering will be accountable for building a leading technical organization through the attraction, development and retention of systems engineers and architects. In addition to developing your people, you will drive the overall development processes within these domains and building the infrastructure and necessary tools and partnerships to do so. You will have to effectively influence and collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders to not only lead this development function but develop strategies for a robust Systems Engineering Framework that inspires systems thinking across the Novo Nordisk organization.

The Head of Systems Engineering is representing, and acting on behalf of, the Device and Delivery System organization in several forums across development, manufacturing, CMC, IT and digital health. You must drive results in developing reliable products and execution plans through technical rigor across a broad range of design inputs, system architecture, detailed system design trade-offs, risk management and design verification and validation. In addition to these activities, you will be deeply involving in shaping the transformational roadmaps, product roadmaps and partnerships needed to build a robust 3-5 year pipeline of solutions to meet patient needs.

Main responsibility relates to below areas:

• People & Team Development: Be able to attract top talent and develop engineers and architects to reliable execute on timelines for cutting edge devices & delivery solutions. Create a culture of hands on design and development with deep levels of trust and significant focus on personal development and team agility.

• Technical Execution: Reliably deliver complex development programs on-time through a network of internal and external partnerships. Ensure the appropriate levels of technical rigor to commercial robust technologies that meets the user needs.

• Process Development: Develop the needed processes and infrastructure to optimize our development activities with an aim of accelerating development, driving efficiencies and creating an agile, hands on culture.

• Collaboration & Partnerships: Ensure smooth collaboration between the Devices & Delivery Solutions area and other critical internal partners including but not limited to; product supply, digital health, IT, regulatory, marketing, digital therapeutics, etc. Build upon and develop meaningful external partnerships across various development partners, manufacturing partners, suppliers, commercial digital health ecosystem partners and innovators in the field to commercialize meaningful product systems.

• Innovation: Ensure robust technology and product roadmaps are developed through internal and external collaborations as to continuously innovate across the portfolio.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, we imagine you have a high level of autonomy, very strong stakeholder management capabilities, people skills, and a deep technical foundation to ensure robust product development.

• Master’s degree or PhD within relevant engineering areas.
• 10 to 15 years of experience within Medical Device, Pharmaceuticals or other relevant and highly technical sectors.
• Strong leadership and people management experience.
• Proven track record of developing, commercializing and scaling products.
• Profound technical knowledge in system verification and validation, model based design, system simulation, quality and functional analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills required to ensure involvement internally and externally.
• Attention to details and a preference for structure, planning and coordination.
• Fluency in both verbal and written English.

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 40,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact

To submit your application, please upload your CV and motivational letter online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). Internal candidates are kindly requested to inform their Line Manager before applying.

Deadline

11/12/2020

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 chronic 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.