Team Lead for Pilot Recovery Facility

Are you motivated by joining a new department within Pilot Production ranging from cultivation to recovery to purification? Are you driven to work with processes surrounding a complex Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API) production, where strong collaboration and stakeholder management is key to our success? And are you an authentic and empathetic people leader, eager to manage and secure operation through a team of dedicated scientists and technician?

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 Mammalian Pilot Plants (MPP) Recovery team within Chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) API Pilots at Novo Nordisk. Take the next step in your life-changing career and apply today!

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     The position

As Associate Manager of the MPP Recovery team, you will lead a team responsible for  daily operations in our recovery facility working closely together with our cultivation and purification team. You will primary be responsible for the recovery of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) for phase 1, 2 and 3 studies.

Your team consists of 14 employees (scientists and technicians) who are preparing, conducting, and reporting API production campaigns in close collaboration with the development and production areas of Novo Nordisk. Furthermore, you will join a growing area preparing for taking in more exciting development projects and expanding capacity for the supply of our portfolio.

Your main tasks will be to:

• Place the well-being of your team at the centre of your attention, be supportive, and use your skills to build a trustful working environment
• Empower, motivate, and develop your team as well as help them balance priorities and deadlines
• Keep yourself updated with the team’s tasks and projects, know when to get involved, and take action when needed
• Communicate and collaborate effectively across disciplines.

As Associate Manager you will be part of the leadership team in CMC MPP, which is composed of 1 Director, 4 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, master’s degree or PhD in science/technology, biochemical/chemical engineering, pharmacy, or other relevant fields. 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.
• The ability to challenge the status quo and see cLEAN as a natural part of your daily work
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

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 pilot facilities and projects.

Additionally, you are driven by the work processes and seeing 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 Mammalian Pilot Plants department is organised within CMC API Pilots and support Novo Nordisk’s important strategic projects within our mammalian platform.

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, Anette Sikjær Jørgensen at +/45 3079 5903.

Deadline

November 27, 2024

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

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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.