Team Leader for CMC Facility Team & Project Leads

Are you motivated by joining a growing area, where strong collaboration and stakeholder management is key to our success? Are you driven to work with facility, equipment usability and technical support surrounding a complex Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production and API expansion project? Are you an authentic and empathetic people leader, eager to manage and secure efficient facility support through a team of dedicated Technicians, Scientist, skilled workers and El/Automation apprentices?

If you are passionate about leading, as well as focus on the development and well-being of your team members as one of your core values, then you might be our new Team Leader (Associate Manager) to join our Facility Team & Project Leads in Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) API Pilot Operations at Novo Nordisk . T ake the next step in your life-changing career and a pply today! 

For an introduction to our area - CMC API Pilots - please visit our  career page .

The Position

As Associate Manager of the Facility Team, you will lead a team responsible for securing facility support to our 5 API Pilot facilities and 4 API Development facilities. As part of the Facility Team, you will work closely with skilled employees to secure all necessary supplies for API production and development.  You will also be responsible for a group of Project Leads covering technical investment projects (equipment replacement and optimization) in CMC API Pilots and CMC API Development.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Ensure stable facility support to 9 buildings in Bagsværd (ABA/AGA, pest control, Power supply, Need Help Inbox etc.)
• Empower and develop team members, ensuring efficient operations and stable supplies.
• Supporting/leading Project Leads in the technical investment projects
• Collaborate with stakeholders in production, development and expansion project.
• Commissioning work (technical investment projects)
• Responsible for apprentices (e.g. Electrical and Automation technicians)

Focus on Environment, Health & Safety ( EHS) in the work process is seen in CMC API Pilots as the most important managerial task, and insight into improvement actions is achieved through go-look-se with employees.

As Associate Manager you will be part of the leadership team in CMC API Pilots Operations , which is composed of 1 Director, 5 Associate Managers and an administrative coordinator that meets frequently, support each other, and routinely use each other as sparring partners.

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you will need a technical background as an Engineer, bachelor’s in technology management and engineering (“Maskinmester”), or M.sc in Pharmacy. Furthermore, you will need:

• Experience in the pharma industry and knowledge of GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) is preferred.
• Leadership experience and a natural desire to engage, develop and empower people .
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with both internal and external collaboration partners .
• Fluency in written and spoken English .
• G ood technical insight and interest in qualification/validation requirements is preferable.

As a person you possess strong interpersonal skills, which enables you to build trust within your team. You like to develop, involve, and motivate your team members and can communicate and collaborate effectively across disciplines. You thrive in a dynamic development environment where sharp priorities are part of everyday life, as well as support to employees in their priorities at the facilities and projects. Additionally, you are driven by the technical work processes and see shopfloor, with your employees, as one of the most important tasks and feel motivated by identifying opportunities to optimize our workflow and processes through a structural approach.

About the Department

As part of Novo Nordisk PSQIT organisation, Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Development & Scaling makes a real difference for patients with chronic diseases across the world. We develop, manufacture and distribute drug candidates for clinical trials and have a strong culture with a “can do” mind-set. 

The CMC API Pilots Operations (Technical Support) department is organised within CMC API Pilots and support the API manufacturing and process development of new API candidates for Novo Nordisk development projects. Our team of over 80 employees supports the scalability and robustness of API processes for clinical studies and market production.

Working at Novo Nordisk

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energize us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you have any questions about the job, you are welcome to contact Director, Mette Greis Hansen at 3075 1237. Due to summer holiday, there may be some limited availability on the phone.

Deadline

August 15th, 2024

Please note that we will review applications and call in for interviews continuously.

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 facilitate an unbiased 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.