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Are you an experienced project manager with a background in primary packaging? Are you ready to take on a new challenge and join a dynamic and innovative team? We are looking for a Primary Packaging Project Manager to join our team in Devices and Delivery Solutions at Novo Nordisk. If you have a passion for project management and deep subject matter expertise within primary packaging, then read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The Position

As a Primary Packaging Project Manager, you will be responsible for directing project execution by providing clear goals and purpose for the project team, ensuring effective use of time and resources. You will also be tasked with creating and developing project plans and implementing effective systems, structures, and processes to drive the project and ensure clarity and order.

Your responsibilities will include:

  • Monitoring and controlling project work, ensuring the end product stays within scope, quality, schedule, and budget.
  • Negotiating project resources with LoB (Line of Business) management and managing these resources during project execution.
  • Establishing the appropriate project governance together with the project owner, and creating and leading the appropriate organization for effective execution.
  • Reporting project performance to relevant stakeholders and performing integrated change control on the project.
  • Authoring, reviewing, and approving relevant project documentation, and archiving all key project data.
  • Ensuring compliance with NN Quality Management System and PS Environmental, Health, and Safety Management system.

Qualification

To thrive and succeed, we expect you to have:

  • An MSc degree in pharmacy, natural science, engineering, or another relevant field with extensive knowledge or 5+ years of experience in the area of tablet primary packaging development for pharmaceutical products.
  • At least 4 years of successful project management experience from leading cross-organizational projects.
  • Deep subject matter expertise within primary packaging for drugs, devices, or food, or drug or device manufacturing, and familiarity with regulatory requirements.
  • Experience in leachables/extractables, requirements/system engineering, safety risk assessment, and GMP material documentation essential for pharmaceutical development.
  • Mapping and improvement of working processes (LEAN).
  • Proficiency in both written and spoken English.

As a person, you are motivated by identifying solutions to design challenges. You thrive in taking the lead and don't mind starting the hard discussions or making decisions to move on in a dynamic environment. You take pride in delivering on your milestones, and you motivate your colleagues with a positive attitude. Overall, you are goal-oriented and a team player.

About the department

The Primary Packaging Development team is situated in Devices and Delivery Solutions, a business unit within the global Development organization located in Hillerød in the greater Copenhagen area with state-of-the-art R&D facilities. Devices and Delivery Solutions has the mandate and responsibility to innovate and develop the most innovative delivery solutions for the entire portfolio of Novo Nordisk’s pharmaceutical products. The unit is comprised of project management, engineering, and technical functions spanning across all competencies required to deliver on a diverse portfolio of drug/combination product and device projects. You will be part of an organization of highly skilled people – maybe the best in the industry.

You will join a growing, and dynamic department consisting of 25 highly skilled and ambitious developers, specialists, and project managers, people who work dedicated to developing and implementing primary packaging solutions in Novo Nordisk. Our department thrives in an international environment, boasting a diverse group of colleagues from across the globe. We have team members hailing from countries such as Iran, India, Spain, Hungary, France, California Colorado, Sweden, Denmark, and Turkey, representing a wide range of backgrounds and age groups. We are collaborative with colleagues, eager to support the Novo Nordisk drug-project portfolio, accountable towards timelines, and keen on investigating how we can contribute to the world’s circular economy. The atmosphere is informal. We help each other when needed and celebrate our successes together.

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 letting perfection standing in the way of good. 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 further information, please reach out to the Head of Oral Delivery Systems, Jørgen MartinViuff at jgmv@novonordisk.com

Deadline

27 May 2024.

We will review applications on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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.

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.

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