Senior Project Manager

Do you have a broad experience within Quality Control (QC), analytical methods and analytical laboratories and are you curious to use this with your experience within project management? Do you want to set direction, collaborate and drive projects across the processes in the analytical laboratories in Novo Nordisk?
If yes, you could be our new Senior Project Manager for process management within our QC laboratory processes.
Apply now for a life-changing career! The position
As a Senior Project Manager, you will be process responsible for several laboratory processes covering everything from equipment, chemicals, Laboratory Investigations and more. The main drivers for the projects you lead are to simplify, standardize (e.g., procedures and training) and keep our processes in compliance – and bring the Process into the future by digitalization. By excellent project execution, you will successfully deliver solutions to key challenges across Product Supply. How we handle and implement signals from health authorities will also be your responsibility. You will also collaborate and align the Process Management tasks with Process Managers from other areas of the organization, both in labs and production. As Senior Project Manager within our analytical laboratories, your main tasks will also include:
• Be a role model and act as ambassador for how we work with Process Management.
• Facilitate the process group network across Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) area. The process groups consist of members from all our laboratory sites, QA, and subject matter experts.
• Manage the project portfolio within your own process.
• Drive continuous improvements to optimize the way we work.
• Host and conduct yearly Process Review. The way we work in Novo Nordisk is defined by processes that make up the value chain for our products. Through process management, we help ensure that processes in operation are simple, stable, in compliance and continuously improved.
Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you will have:
• A MSc or PhD in Engineering, Chemistry, Pharmacy, Biology, Project Management or similar.
• At least, 5 years of experience with driving projects across the organization.
• Relevant business experience such as cLEAN, Six Sigma, communication, and presentation skills for top management or cross organizational network.
• Experience with GMP in Quality Control Laboratories.
• Full professional proficiency in English and some experience with Danish. As a person you are inspiring and motivating, a strong innovator, that shrives for continuous improvement, and you have a drive to set and reach ambitious targets on new ground. As you have a structured approach to your work, you can juggle several tasks while prioritizing your efforts optimally by keeping the bigger picture in mind. Whilst you can expect a high degree of independence in this position, you also act as a team player with great ability to build strong working relations, take charge of a group and collaborate with people across boundaries. We expect you to be a good communicator, including the ability to target your communication in alignment with other areas to a broad set of stakeholders at all organizational levels ensuring clear argumentation to ease decision making for senior management. About the department
Manufacturing Development is a part of BRD with a team of over 650 colleagues working together to optimize and develop processes across six global production sites. Our field of work broadly covers the area also known as MSAT (Manufacturing, Science, and Technology). We bring value to our patients by driving innovation for the entire BRD, working with Industry 4.0, new technologies, biotechnology, and developing processes for both existing and future products.
BRD Analytical Manufacturing Development is a part of BRD Manufacturing Development, and we are situated in Gentofte close to Copenhagen. We are around 65 colleagues who are responsible for supporting QC with new analytical technology and automation, we validate analytical methods during transfer from CMC to QC, we manage the analytical part of BRD projects when new products are handed over from CMC and throughout life cycle management, we ensure excellent internal and external analytical documentation of our products, and we ensure presence and documentation of reference materials for all BRD products. A complex and fantastic department to work in.
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 to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk.
We are more than 3000 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology. Contact
For further information, please contact Lasse Lollike at +45 30 79 54 35.
Deadline
15 October 2023.
Please note that interviews will be held throughout the period, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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