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At Novo Nordisk, we believe unordinary leaders drive real change. As a CVP cLEAN Partner, you’ll play a pivotalole in setting the standards, driving optimization and continuous improvement—and your hands-on approach will help us set new standards in the pharmaceutical industry. If you’re ready to translate complexity into operational excellence alongside a talented leadership team, this is your opportunity to make a unique difference

Your new role

As a CVP cLEAN Partner, you will work across the area 25L, reporting to the Senior Manager for 25L Operational Readiness Business Support. You will be responsible together with the management group to define strategic improvement priorities. In close collaboration with Operations organisation, you will help to develop business, leaders, and employees.

Day-to-day your tasks will include:

  • Support a roadmap towards operational readiness
  • Identifying systems and tools for training and deployment in pursuit of operational excellence
  • Fostering organizational learning, continuous improvement, and problem-solving
  • Supporting leadership in improving productivity and effectiveness in the next step regarding Operational Excellence

Joining our department means stepping into a new position where you will play a vital part in defining further development of 25L Operational Readiness Business Support.

Your new department

Our team is working to expand the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) capacity of our Biotech production in Hillerød. You will become a part of one of the most significant expansion projects in Novo Nordisk – and when finished the facility will employ app. 340 colleagues. The highly automated facility will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology that is flexible to accommodate new processes and products. It will expand our capacity for our portfolio of clinical late phase products to serve more people living with serious chronic diseases including rare diseases.


We do not only drive change for our patients – we also drive life-changing careers for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high levels of trust, innovation, and development throughout the organisation. To drive the project and reach the initial phase of production, we need your help! Are you ready to join the project team and our journey?

Your skills & qualifications

We're looking for a CVP cLEAN Partner who thrives in complexity and brings structure to transformation. You’ll bring with you:

  • A master’s degree related to Life Sciences, Engineering, Business or any other related field
  • Several years of experience within LEAN implementation, strategy deployment, project management, coaching, and change management
  • Experience working in highly complex, matrix environments, ideally in a manufacturing environment (preferably within GMP and manufacturing processes)
  • Proven ability to navigate ambiguity, facilitate progress in operational transitions, and create governance structures
  • Fluency in both spoken and written English

As a person, you have an analytical and curious mindset, a high ability to navigate in complex stakeholder landscape and matrix organization, and you negotiate at all levels in the organization. You are motivated by challenging assignments, and you absorb new knowledge quickly, demonstrating great cooperation skills, and your proficiency lies in fostering collaboration and ensuring engagement among other employees while setting the overall Strategic direction.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk Site Hillerød, we are around 4,000 employees developing, producing, and filling injection pens to help patients around the world living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Here we also house a large factory dedicated to the production of life-saving medicine for patients with rare diseases.

At Site Hillerød we employe a diverse range of talent working across the value chain, and we are growing fast. In fact, we are one of the most rapidly expanding sites in Denmark. For this reason, we have many exciting job opportunities and therefore we are continuously looking for new talented colleagues. Join us and become a part of extraordinary teams implementing new technologies to take our production to new heights and serve even more patients.

The site is located in beautiful surroundings and offers good transportation options from Copenhagen, Hillerød, and the rest of North Zealand.

Get to know us better - meet us at www.novonordisk.com/site-hilleroed-careers.

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

If you have questions about the role, you are welcome to contact Senior Manager Christian Bøttger at CBQT@novonordisk.com.

Deadline

3 August 2025.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

We’re 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.

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