Project Controls Manager

Project Controls Manager

CMC & Product Supply

Kalundborg, Denmark

At Novo Nordisk, we believe unordinary leaders drive real change. As a Project Controls Manager, you’ll play a critical role in shaping complex projects by managing costs, risks, and schedules with precision—and your hands-on, innovative approach will help us set new standards in the pharmaceutical industry. If you’re ready to lead with impact alongside a talented leadership team, this is your opportunity to make a unique difference.

Your new role

As a Project Controls Manager in API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) Investment Project Office (IPO), your role will involve a variety of key responsibilities that require leadership, strategic understanding, and proficient analytical and project controls skills. You will be leading significant areas within the organization and managing a set of multifaceted tasks that underscore the importance of this role.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing, implementing, and managing an integrated project controls system with a focus on cost management, risk mitigation, and scheduling for complex projects.

• Leading a skilled and dynamic project controls team supporting a portfolio of projects across multiple locations.

• Overseeing the planning and scheduling processes while ensuring comprehensive project scope coverage.
• Maintaining strict financial control through accurate cost estimation, effective budgeting, and diligent tracking.
• Facilitating risk assessments and managing the complete risk management process, including scope and change management, ensuring all adjustments are evaluated and implemented effectively.

You'll also analyse project performance data, generating useful insights and recommendations for the Project Management team. This critical position demands disciplined execution, strategic vision, and outstanding leadership to achieve successful outcomes for the projects you manage.

Your new department

In CMC & Product Supply, we cover the full value chain from drug and device development to marketed Novo Nordisk products. We are more than 30,000 colleagues across the globe with the shared responsibility of scaling molecules, processes, devices, and products, dedicated to supplying life-saving medicines to the patients who need them most.

The API Investment Project Office (IPO) is at the forefront of driving expansions and innovations within Novo Nordisk. Located in Kalundborg, Denmark, our team is dedicated to managing projects that enhance our manufacturing capabilities. With a focus on collaboration and excellence, we work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, where your contributions will make a significant impact on our goals and mission.

Your skills & qualifications

We’re looking for a new Project Controls Manager who will enjoy working in a high-paced, dynamic environment. You’ll bring with you:

• A Master’s degree in Finance, Engineering, Business Administration, or a similar field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience working in a project control capacity, ideally within major investment projects within the pharmaceutical or another highly regulated industry.
• Strong leadership background and ability to influence stakeholders at all levels within a complex organisation.
• Excellent understanding of financial processes, cost, risks and schedules.
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal.

Furthermore, you exhibit exceptional leadership abilities, being adept at guiding and fostering growth within your team, while inspiring and motivating towards common goals. Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, as this role requires seamless collaboration with internal teams and effective interaction with varied stakeholders.

A high degree of adaptability is needed to navigate and thrive in a constantly evolving work environment, along with keen problem-solving skills and a mindset that thrives on challenges. Your organisational and multitasking abilities will be key in managing both your team and multiple projects simultaneously.

Working at Novo Nordisk

You will be joining PS API Expansions. The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 30,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees. 

PS API Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with flexibility to accommodate future processes and display state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients globally in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world class execution of capacity projects, and together we are building the future of Novo Nordisk.

What we offer
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

More information

For further information please contact Senior Manager Amer Skaljic on +45-30793035 or qasj@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

27 July 2025 (Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis).

Novo Nordisk is not your typical healthcare company. In a modern world of quick fixes, we focus on solutions to defeat serious chronic diseases and promote long-term health. Our unordinary mindset is at the heart of everything we do. We seek out new ideas and put people first as we push the boundaries of science, make healthcare more accessible, and treat, prevent, and even cure diseases that affect millions of lives. Because it takes an unordinary approach to drive real, lasting change in health.

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.