Product Transfer Senior Project Manager

Are you ready to drive capacity expansion related projects, in a global context? This is an exquisite chance for you as Product Transfer Senior Project Manager to use and expand your experience within project management, while employing your knowledge of pharmaceutic products and production, in a multifaceted stakeholder environment. 

We are looking for highly skilled professionals to ensure technology transfer of aseptic production processes to manufacturing sites around the world. If this sounds of interest to you, then you could be our new Scientist based in the Greater Copenhagen area, Denmark. 

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career.

The Position
As a Product Transfer Senior Project Manager, you will be empowered and responsible for introducing our new products to our internal and external production network ensuring to meet patients demand. 

Your main responsibilities will include: 

• Technical transfer of the product together with your team of subject matter experts and the production site project manager. The projects are cross-functional assignments with key influence in and deliveries to the production. 
• Working closely together with regulatory affairs and manufacturing sites across the world. 
• Setting the direction for your project team ensuring that deliverables and strategies are executed. 
• Creating transparent plans and communicating these to stakeholders.

You are driven and ambitious, and you thrive in a high paced and dynamic environment where your actions make an impact. While being assertive, you are able to use your leadership skills to ensure progress in an international stakeholder landscape. 

Two-three weeks of travel per year must be expected in this role.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, we expect you to have:

• An academic background, within science, engineering, pharmacy, or another similar scientific field.
• A solid background within project management leading complex projects within; this could be within aseptic development, production, or other relevant disciplines within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience in leading product transfers within the pharma- or biotech industry 
• The necessary skills to thrive in a high-pace and dynamic workday, prioritizing and creating transparency for your project and ensuring you always keep the overview.
• Fluency in English language.

As a professional you inspire and energise your surroundings, set clear and ambitious goals, and work closely together with your internal and external stakeholders to reach our goals. You are good at establishing relations, communicating clearly at all levels and have a high integrity and robustness that enable you to integrate different views in your decision-making process. Having said that, we expect that you can stay firm when needed in the context of a dynamic environment.

As a person, you have a high degree of can-do mindset and drive, and you can challenge the existing way of doing things. Your energy, pro-activity, and willingness to make a difference and optimise processes can be seen in your daily work. You communicate and collaborate with empathy across cultures and functions, and your leadership behaviour foster positive interactions with project team members and stakeholders. 

About the department
In Product Supply Aseptic Manufacturing (PS AM), we produce a large portfolio of products fighting serious chronic diseases worldwide.

The area Manufacturing Science & Transfers (MS&T) is a part of Aseptic Manufacturing Science & Technology (AMSAT) and consists of approximately 130 employees across 4 departments.

The position is within the Global Transfers department, a group of 24 highly skilled employees. The department is responsible for the technology transfer of aseptic production processes (formulation and filling) for products across the portfolio of marketed products to Novo Nordisk sites and Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs) globally. We work in cross-functional project groups but are united to meet team goals and share experience and knowledge.

Working at Novo Nordisk 
At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. We’re a dynamic company in an even more dynamic industry, and we know that what got us to where we are today is not necessarily what will make us successful in the future. We embrace the spirit of experimentation, striving for excellence without fixating on perfection. We never shy away from opportunities to develop, we seize them. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact
For more information, please contact Signe Gerling Engmark on +45 30791790

Deadline
1 June 2025

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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.