Senior Project Manager

Are you an experienced project leader with a knack for driving strategic programmes? Do you thrive in dynamic environments and excel at stakeholder alignment? If so, we invite you to join our team as a Senior Project Manager and elevate our strategic programs to new heights. Apply today for a life-changing career!

The position
We are seeking a seasoned Senior Project Manager to take ownership of a strategic program within our organization. This role provides the opportunity to inherit a well-established framework, com-plete with roadmaps, prioritizations, KPIs, and timelines. You will drive this program to the next level while ensuring continuous improvement and stakeholder alignment. As the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, external suppliers, and leadership, you will lead cross-functional teams to achieve set objectives.

Main Responsibilities:

• Oversee and coordinate projects tracks that consists of cross-functional teams of experts, ensuring alignment with SoOp business objectives and processes.
• Create comprehensive project plans detailing scope, benefits, workstreams, timelines, costs, milestones, governance, RACI, risks, and resource allocation.
• Continuously monitor project progress, adjust plans as necessary, and conduct key meet-ings, including steering committee sessions.
• Identify and apply best practices while facilitating knowledge sharing across SoOp, 
• Communicate project progress and performance to all relevant stakeholders, translating complex technical findings into clear, actionable insights for non-technical audiences.

Please note that the department will be relocating, and the new office will be in Taastrup starting in January 2026.

Qualifications
To be considered for this position, we imagine you:

• Hold a master’s degree in economics, finance, supply chain management, engineering, or a related field, with a minimum of 8+ years of proven project/program management expertise.
• Possess familiarity with Waterfall and Agile methodologies.
• Display a successful track record of effectively managing multiple projects in a dynamic set-ting.
• Showcase fluency in both written and spoken English.

As a person, you possess strong communication and collaboration skills, are structured with a highly analytical mindset, motivated by creating results and have excellent problem-solving skills. You are motivated, work well under pressure, and respect the opinion of others while being able to drive a decision through the team. Your time-management skills are excellent, and you can decisively priori-tise, triage, and make real-time decisions as well as follow up and follow through. Finally, you think strategically and anticipate changes that could affect projects.

About the department 
Inbound Supply Management is part of Sourcing Operations (SoOp), which has the overall operational responsibility for the inbound supply chain of Novo Nordisk and consists of 700 employees. We use our differences to create novel ideas and high-quality solutions to ensure continuous improvement of the SoOp function globally. 
We ensure that you have the opportunity to grow in a supportive environment of talented and motivated colleagues. You will be working in the headquarters with an environment characterized by openness and highly engaged colleagues who are dedicated to help us change lives for the better for patients around the world.

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 mas-sively 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 recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspec-tives 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 Christopher Lindegaard Lomholt, Senior Manager at +45-30790386

Deadline
21 May 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. 

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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.