Global Project Manager

Are you motivated by making a difference and being part of a team of ambitious talents with diverse backgrounds? Would you like to drive complex improvement and ramp-up projects across our global manufacturing network?

Do you have Operational Excellence background?

If so, you could be our new Global Project Manager – Operations. Apply today and join us for a life-changing career!

The position
As a Project Manager – Operations, you will be part of maximising capacities across our Aseptic Manufacturing asset base focusing on both current and future capacities. You will be responsible for operational readiness and ramp-up projects including building the project strategy and scope as well as developing and implementing solutions. All of this you will do in close collaboration with your team of highly specialized OPEX experts and our manufacturing sites, who will be responsible for sustaining the impact of the improvements. 

Your responsibilities will include driving projects/transformations in manufacturing related to:

• Maximizing capacities across our current and future fleet of aseptic manufacturing lines.
• Operational readiness & Ramp-up of new aseptic manufacturing lines.
• Integrating newly acquired sites (M&A).
• Collaborating with stakeholders across the organization, including supply chain, local site management and operational employees as well as local experts.

The position is based in Copenhagen Region, Denmark, however you can expect up to 50% travel per year to our global manufacturing sites in the US, Italy, Brazil, France, China, Denmark as well as new manufacturing sites entering our global network.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• A MSc Degree in economics, business administration, engineering, science, medical fields or similar.
• +3 years of work experience with operational excellence, preferably in manufacturing, experience from a management consultancy or a pharmaceutical company is an advantage.
• Excellent analytical, quantitative and qualitative problem-solving skills combined with track-record of driving strategic processes.
• Professional proficiency in English.

On a personal level, you are ambitious, challenge-seeking and result-oriented. You have great interpersonal skills that allow you to communicate complex information clearly (both verbally and in writing). Moreover, you are motivated and ready to drive change at all levels of the organisation.

About the department
The department is a newly established organizational unit called Aseptic Manufacturing Engineering (AME). With almost 150 colleagues, we play a key role in accelerating a major transformation to improve performance across a global network of factories to meet the need of the increasing number of people living with diabetes and obesity. AME is an organizational unit in Aseptic Manufacturing (AM), which is the largest production area in Novo Nordisk with more than 10,000 employees.  You will be part of a newly established team with the responsibility of driving complex improvements projects based on operational excellence principles across our aseptic production network worldwide. The team functions as an in-house consultancy and will drive a broad range of high-profile improvement projects across our strategic aseptic manufacturing sites. Within the unit there are people who work with digital and analytics initiatives which enables us to fuel our operational excellence projects with even more compute power as well as digital tools to drive the business forward.
Our projects provide exposure to Heads of manufacturing for all team members, and we develop our talents by continuously investing in both personal and professional development and strive to offer a steep learning curve.

Working at Novo Nordisk 
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously on bringing out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort.

Contact 
For further information, please contact Global Ramp-up Director, Paulius Galinskis at +45 3444 1814 

Deadline 
7 April 2025

Applications will be reviewed 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. 

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.