Are you an experienced professional with a passion for leading people and executing projects in the pharmaceutical industry? We are seeking a Manager for Operational Readiness to join our team in Kalundborg. This role is pivotal in overseeing operations and ensuring the facility's readiness for production. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The Position

As the Manager for Operational Readiness, your key responsibilities will include:

• Oversee operations and ensure operational readiness post-project phase.
• Influence and manage the freeze-drying project, ensuring compliance with project specifications and requirements.
• Manage interdependencies between project work packages.
• Plan project resources, including participation in the recruitment process of new employees; develop, coach, and manage the project team.
• Shape the operational strategy for the facility, and set the team to start operations.
• Lead the preparation of qualification and validation plans.

You will ensure the strategy for validation, control and maintenance, as well as plans for capacity & production.

Qualifications

We realize that few people are experts at everything. But if you can nod your head at the following attributes, then you could be the person we are looking for:

• A relevant academic degree in production, operations, or a related field.
• Some years of experience in managing pharmaceutical operations, with extensive experience in production, operations, or manufacturing within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Understanding of pharmaceutical validation processes.
• Ability to guide and develop a team.
• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

As a person, you are highly independent and you actively drive decision-making processes, even with senior stakeholders and project owners. You consistently stay on top of situations and project progress. You excel in managing change, engaging project teams, and collaborating across boundaries. You communicate frequently, timely, and in a structured manner, effectively conveying direction and project plans to teams and stakeholders. Your ability to network, collaborate, influence and work at a high professional level is crucial for success in this role.

About the Department

You can look forward to working within the M3 project, Novo Nordisk’s largest investment project to date. The project is located in Kalundborg, Denmark, where we design and build future API facilities as multi-product facilities. The M3 team is a diverse group of approximately 300 talented colleagues from over 30 different national backgrounds. Joining this fast-growing organization, you will connect with a network of skilled professionals from across the organization, sharing knowledge about best practices and receiving input for future plans and solutions. We offer thorough onboarding and training in the Novo Nordisk standards to help you get started.

Working at Novo Nordisk

You will be joining PS API Expansions. The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employs approximately 30,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees. PS API Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with the flexibility to accommodate future processes and display state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients globally in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way. We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world-class execution of capacity projects, and together we are building the future of Novo Nordisk.

Contact

For further information, please contact Project Director, Morten Schierbech Poulsen at +45-34440182.

Deadline

26 January 2025

Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews will be planned as soon as a suitable candidate is identified.

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV.

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.