Shutdown Project Manager

Are you passionate about technical project management and building relationships across the organisation? Are you ready to plan, coordinate, execute, and optimise the yearly shutdowns of our Aseptic Filling lines? Would you like to ensure smooth functioning, reliability, and efficiency in production while adhering to safety, quality, and regulatory standards? Then you might be our new Project Manager to drive shutdowns in Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) at our site in Gentofte. Apply today! The position Our production lines are facing several upgrades driven by the introduction of new products; optimization initiatives; compliance or obsolescence of hardware and software. Thus, we are currently looking for a Project Manager who is ready to join our shutdown team and handle overall planning, coordination and execution of summer and winter shutdowns of our Aseptic Filling capacity at site Gentofte, including documentation, ensuring and releasing filling capacity. Additionally, in the interim periods between shutdowns, you will be managing planning and communication with the various departments, project portfolios, and stakeholders, which is key to ensuring all activities are accounted for and aligned with across the organization. You can also expect to be assigned as Project Manager to improvement projects in our project portfolio.
Your main responsibilities:

Planning, executing, and following up on all tasks/processes related to scope, schedule, resources, cost, quality, and project risk

As a natural part of your projects, you will be in close dialogue with line of business and all levels of management at our production site, as well as external vendors

Ownership of shutdown planning, reporting, and documentation

Identify and manage key stakeholders and steering groups related to your projects

Actively contribute with learnings and experiences with the rest of the Project Management Office (PMO) team to mature and strengthen our ability to run shutdown projects more efficiently

Qualifications To succeed in this role, you will have:

A BSc or MSc related to Life Science, Engineering, or similar with a minimum 3-5 years of relevant experience

A proven track record as Project Manager and/or Construction Manager successfully leading major facility and or technical projects in a complex organisation

Background from a Good Manufacturing Practice regulated environment is an advantage

Experience with contract management and strong LEAN, planning and optimization skills

Proficiency in English and Danish

As a person, you have excellent communication skills and demonstrate a structured approach. You are culturally savvy and able to build relations with stakeholders at all organisational levels. You are a self-starter, who is capable to set direction and drive results independently. You easily adapt to a fast-paced environment and are driven by technical complexity. You possess leadership and interpersonal skills, and can engage people, build trust, and get commitment from stakeholders to support your projects and drive change. Moreover, you are comfortable in a rapidly changing and dynamic work environment and can prioritize and not lose sight of the bigger picture. About the department You will be part of a dynamic and ambitious PMO, where our Project Managers execute small to large projects across our production site. Our challenge is to execute an increasing portfolio of diverse projects and implementing new solutions with minimum impact on the ongoing production. From PMO we execute projects within aseptic production (formulation, filling, freeze-drying, product inspection) IT, and our building facilities. Operational Excellence consists of Project Management Office, Shutdown Management and Process Excellence. We support the Aseptic Production which is a part of BRD Finished Products Gentofte and Vaarloese production site situated close to Copenhagen. Here we are app. 725 colleagues who take responsibility for transforming Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients into the finished product that patients can use all over the world. We are producing at full speed on existing lines while building and ramping up new state of the art facilities. Our complex processes require a high level of expertise, commitment, and engagement from our employees and include formulation, filling, freeze-drying, product inspection, assembly, and pack. We bring value to patients by delivering high-quality GMP compliant products in a timely and cost-efficient manner. We drive change by working actively with LEAN and 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. 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 in 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. 2500 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 are also stiving 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 Department Manager Derek Acheampong: [email protected] Deadline 7 January 2024. We will review applications and conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few lines about your motivation in your resume or CV. In addition, please avoid the use of photos in your CV. This provides a better and more fair process. 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.