Senior Manager

Are you looking for an exciting Senior Manager position where you will have a central role in optimising our API production? Would you like to be part of an organisational change to support the continued delivery and increase the volume output and be part of creating a higher focus on people development? If so, apply today and join us for a life-changing career in our newly established Senior Manager role! The position
As a Senior Manager, you will head up the manufacturing support unit consisting of several teams within environmental monitoring and equipment support. Your direct reports will be several associate managers who are responsible for leading engineers, project managers, chemists, technicians, and skilled workers. The overall size of your organization will increase to approximately 50 employees in 2023 initially divided into three teams. Your main responsibilities will include:
• Develop and optimize the organization and employees in the department
• Support the production to produce and release API bulk according to delivery agreement
• Ensure licence to operate and production compliance within GMP
• Guarantee that operation, investment, and manning are kept The area is on an exciting growth journey. You will report to the production site Director and collaborate closely with your management colleagues on day-to-day operations, securing strong collaboration in and outside the organization. The unit you will be heading will be leading exciting projects to meet future compliance requirements but also projects to improve process performance. Furthermore, the department has a strong focus on manufacturing intelligence and focus on utilizing data science to bring clarity in process variation and barriers and then optimize accordingly to create stability and predictability in our day. Qualifications
You will be a great asset to our management team because you have:
• Solid leadership experience when it comes to developing, engaging, and creating followship within your organisation.
• Extensive experience with pharmaceutical manufacturing under GMP and preferably within API.
• A holistic approach on solving challenges and great collaboration skills within your management group.
• A relevant academic degree and full professional proficiency in English. As a person, you can understand through complex issues, and you are able to translate this into operational actions. You have an excellent quality mindset and business understanding and you can develop people as an individual and as part of a team. About the department
Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) API Denmark is in Gentofte, Hilleroed and Kalundborg. This is where the active ingredients go into all our life-saving biotech products that are made by app. 550 committed colleagues. We manufacture through complex chemical and biotechnological processes requiring a high level of expertise, commitment and engagement from our employees and including cultivation, recovery, purification, and freeze-drying.
We are producing at full speed in existing facilities, while building and ramping up new state of the art additions to keep up with demand and new Novo Nordisk products. We bring value to patients by delivering the purest possible high-quality API made in compliance with GMP. We drive change by always looking for improvements within our processes, but also in the way we work together to make our products reach as many patients as possible. You will be part of a department located in Gentofte. The department consists of a fermentation and recovery facility and a purification facility. In total 134 employees. Working at BRD, Novo Nordisk
BRD is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products for Rare Diseases, but also using our competences in Biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk. We are app. 2900 colleagues committed to drive change for people with serious chronic diseases. We produce our life-saving medicines out of five state-of-the-art production sites in Denmark and United States - covering the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. Not only are we making a difference for patients – we also strive to make a difference for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high level of trust, innovation, and development for everyone. Are you ready for a life-changing career? Contact
For further information please contact Director, Jakob Rune Høgh Nielsen, at (+45) 3075 9013. Deadline
19 March 2023
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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.