Position
Senior Project Manager
Job description
With strong passion for People Management
Do you have a strong passion for people management and do you want to work with dedicated and experienced biotech manufacturing professionals? Are you curious about the opportunity to establish a factory that bridges new and automated technologies with strong know-how and expertise in biotech manufacturing? Make the most of your talent and join our team in Kalundborg.
The Position
In Novo Nordisk we are building state-of-the-art new API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients) manufacturing facilities to support the company portfolio of future oral and injectable pharmaceuticals.
As Senior Project Manager you will be an active member of the project and leadership team around the M3 purification project and you will interact with both internal and external stakeholders. With your strong leadership skills, you keep the team focused during all project phases. You will take active part in building a competent user-organisation, integrating with engineering partners, and collaborating with contractors while supervising their activities. You manage any project risks proactively and develop standards to ensure structure and transparency.
You will have a range of tasks such as:
• Securing project execution of the packages within your area
• Interface between engineering firms, subcontractors, vendors and Novo Nordisk user team to secure the right technical solutions
• Drive milestones and schedule completion together with project stakeholders
• Lead the user team and work closely with existing production facilities and other projects in the M3 programme to ensure alignment
• Manage and communicate with senior level stakeholders to secure necessary decisions and sponsorship
• Secure safety-first mindset through close collaboration with Construction Management and Safety Team when in construction
The position offers great opportunities to utilize your competencies and for personal growth and development. You will work with skilled and knowledgeable colleagues.
Qualifications
We imagine that you are working in a project management within the process or industrial sector and have significant project management experience. Moreover, to succeed in this role you have:
An academic degree within Natural Science, engineering or similar.
Experience and great passion for people management.
• +5 years of experience, delivering projects and coordinating across broad stakeholder landscapes preferably within pharma
• Experience in an owner organization, working with engineering firms, contractors & manufacturers
• Good understanding of the Project Management toolbox as well as Leadership skills.
• Knowledge within GMP / execution of validation activities is needed
• Confident communicator, comfortably addressing operators, managers and senior stakeholders
• Professional proficiency in English.
As a person you are reliable, loyal, structured and can motivate a team to deliver according to project objectives while securing a good, healthy and joyful working climate. You can lead through others and set clear objectives for a project team. You enjoy working according to tight deadlines and being a part of a dynamic team. You are self-motivated, work independently and used to think steps ahead of others.
Join Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg in times of expansion
Today, approximately 4000 employees of Novo Nordisk Kalundborg produce half of the world’s insulin and a number of biopharmaceutical products. With more than 50 years of expertise in large-scale biotech manufacturing, we are today the world’s largest insulin-producing facility. By joining Novo Nordisk Manufacturing in Kalundborg, we promise you a developing career, where you will be met with trust and responsibility by dedicated colleagues with diverse backgrounds in a successful company with a higher purpose and an inclusive environment. Together, we make a difference every day for more than 30 million people living with diabetes and other chronic diseases.
Contact
For further information, please contact Project Director Trine Olesen +45 3077 7356.
Deadline
6 July, 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.
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.
