Project Manager I - Project Investment Controls

About the Department

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on life-changing careers, and the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

Our new Petersburg, Virginia site marks a strategic move to advance our capabilities in Emerging Technologies (ET) within Chemical API development and production. The highly experienced site is designed to strengthen and accelerate our Small Molecule (SMOL) strategy while amplifying our operational capacity. This is to safeguard and support ET´s SMOL projects in the coming years, aligning with our vision and strengthening our potential for growth and innovation.

What we offer you:

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 14 weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition Assistance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career. Are you ready to realize your potential? Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.

The Position

Support Project Management Office (PMO) in driving investment projects and key priorities covering cost initiatives across the project organization, including supporting the Project Management (PM) Team on execution as well as initiating & maturing initiatives. Drive robust cost plans & tracking systems. Complete assigned projects & project tasks within given parameters. Act as lead for responsibilities in the PMO group including building project portfolio cashflow, projections, linking project costs, & financial reports.

Additional responisibiliies relating to the project: Additionally, you will join a team of investments project managers.  In this role, the Sr. Project Manager will collaborate closely with team members to ensure high-quality project controlling, management reporting and financial compliance. Provide oversight of investment and project capacity cost.  Serve Entry point for investment projects regarding financial compliance; provides financial guidance to ensure correct accounting treatment throughout project lifecycle.  Help drives investment budget process in collaboration with Site Project Office.  Ensures that portfolio financial forecast insights are provided including risk reporting.  Performs month end closing activities and reporting of investment financial performance.   As part of portfolio overview, performs yearly asset review and depreciation outlook.   This role will reside onsite with the team.  Site schedule is Monday - Thursday, 10hr dayshift schedule. 

Relationships

Sr. Project Director 

Essential Functions

• Work under the direction of the Senior Project Manager or Manager, Project Management to support the planning, coordination, & evaluation of project financial reporting
• Works with subject matter experts to identify opportunities that focus on key procurement metrics, cost reductions, risk mitigation, & industry supply trends
• Maintain financial reports for individual project subtasks & provide roll-up reports that summarize the subtasks
• Assists with reviewing funding availability & procurement documentation to ensure conformance to approved project budgets
• Assist with facilitating change management processes to ensure changes are processed in an accurate & timely manner
• Participate in development of project estimates, budgets, forecasts, estimates to complete, & cost trends
• Maintain weekly cost reports; evaluating actual & forecasted costs against budgets & detailed analysis
• Assist with performing earned value analysis, align changes in schedule milestone delivery with cost impacts
• Participate in continuous process improvement via cLEAN®
• Follow all safety & environmental requirements in the performance of duties
• Other duties, as assigned

Physical Requirements

Ability to work in an open office environment with the possibility of frequent distraction. Ability to travel up to 10% of the time. (% can change on a case-by-case basis based on the role.)

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Engineering, Finance, Business, or relevant field of study from an accredited university required
• Minimum of two (2) years of experience in project management with knowledge in cost control/cost management methods, earned value analysis & cost forecasting required, preferably in a Pharmaceutical Manufacturing environment
• Knowledge of Novo Nordisk governance & good Novo Nordisk network preferred
• Knowledge of large Capital Expenditures (CapEx) projects with focus on PMO roles preferred

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.

Novo Nordisk is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by local, state or federal laws, rules or regulations.

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