Training Specialist

Are you passionate about driving strategic training initiatives? Do you have a knack for connecting strategic targets with impactful training solutions? If so, we invite you to join us as Training Specialist and make a significant impact across our Senior Vice President (SVP) area Novo Nordisk Quality. Read more and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position

This position encompasses the dual responsibilities of Training Specialist and Area Process Manager, with a focus on enhancing training programs and optimizing processes within the designated area. You will play a crucial role in aligning training initiatives with our strategic objectives, driving continuous improvements in our training systems and processes to meet the ever-changing needs of the business. In collaboration with SVP and CVP Training Partners and Professionals, you will develop and implement an innovative training strategy that leverages training as a strategic business tool, addressing complex challenges and boosting overall business performance. As the Training Specialist, you will lead the implementation and realization of training enhancements, providing guidance to training professionals at the SVP and CVP levels on training-related matters. You will champion a culture of learning and development throughout the organization. Your active engagement on the shop floor will involve mentoring colleagues and identifying opportunities to utilize training as a solution for business challenges, employing an investigative and solution-oriented mindset.

In your capacity as Area Process Manager, you will spearhead the Training Process Group within the Quality Organization, ensuring alignment with the Corporate Process Group's direction and initiatives. By monitoring training compliance and operational performance, you will ensure that our training processes are effective and aligned with the broader objectives of Novo Nordisk. You will also contribute to audits, inspections, and quality management reviews.

Your expertise will facilitate data-driven prioritization and decision-making, ensure compliance with Good Practice (GxP) requirements, and continuously refine our training standards to uphold the highest standards of excellence.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Connecting Novo Nordisk Quality (NNQ) strategic targets with training initiatives as a strategic training specialist.
• Driving the progress and impact of training optimization, such as Training for Competence, across the SVP area.
• Providing guidance for the prioritization of training improvements on behalf of the SVP area.
• Leading process performance, compliance, and improvements in your role as Area Process Manager.

Qualifications

We are looking for a candidate with:

• Minimum 4 years’ experience working with GxP processes, Quality Management, and content control.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher within learning science, business administration, human resources, or equivalent.
• Experience in facilitating learning and training activities.
• Background in relevant operations, combined with a flair for learning activities.
• Relevant LEAN certification, preferably at least LEAN 2-star level.
• Experience in pharmaceutical production or a similar industry.
• Familiarity with LEAN methodologies and continuous improvement practices.
• Experience with change management and stakeholder management at different organisational levels.

As a person you possess a user-centric mindset and are a valuable team player, known for your collaborative can-do attitude. You are innovative, systematic, data driven, service and team oriented. Your excellent communication skills will allow you to work efficiently with stakeholders at different levels of the organisation. To excel in this position, you should be driven by taking on unformal leadership in your daily work and be energized by working in a fast-paced environment with multiple tasks and topics simultaneously. Last but not least, you are pragmatic and curious with the ability to make independent decisions whenever it is needed.

About the department

Our department, NNQ P&O Training, operates within NNQ People & Organisation and drives training initiatives across Novo Nordisk. Our responsibilities have expanded from developing and overseeing our central training offering to NNQ, to encompassing more central training activities across NN. Currently, our department consists of 16 skilled colleagues organised in two teams, Training Academy and Training Projects. You will be a part of the leadership team reporting into the Department Manager/SVP Training Partner.

We engage in diverse and exciting tasks and projects across the organization, fostering an ambitious, motivated, and dedicated working environment. Emphasizing flexibility and collaboration across various skill sets, we effectively tackle diverse tasks and projects. Our workplace culture is characterized by a fun and informal atmosphere, promoting open communication and teamwork.

Join us in our mission to shape the future of learning and make a tangible impact on the growth and development of our employees. We look forward to welcoming you to our team!

Working at Novo Nordisk

Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we're working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it's a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we're life changing.

Contact

For further information, please contact Charlotte Baltzer Rode (current Training Specialist) at +45 34 48 30 83.

Deadline

28th April 2025

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. Applications will be handled as they are received, so please do not hesitate to apply.

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.