Senior Manager - Bagsværd, Danmark - Novo Nordisk

Beskrivelse

Do you have a strong interest in developing teams and leading complex, cross-functional projects? Does the prospect of setting strategic direction for portfolio management while also ensuring your team is fully engaged and developed through change excite you?

Novo Nordisk Quality Systems (QS) is seeking an experienced professional with a proven track record in effectively defining and driving end-to-end project execution.

Apply today and join us for a life-changing career

The position

The Senior Manager for the Project Management Office (PMO) will lead a team of Project Managers and Change Managers responsible for executing major cross-organizational improvement projects, as well as improvement projects within Quality Systems. The PMO is responsible for project design, development, and execution, planning, coordination, and progress adherence, identifying the right competencies and people to execute each project, stakeholder engagement and communication, risk and issue management, and budgeting and reporting.

Your key responsibilities will include,

• Motivating, coaching, leading, and setting direction for your team

• Building and maintaining strong collaboration with your stakeholders across the organization

• Ownership of the project portfolio across QS and ensuring continuous alignment with the strategic direction for the area, including QS needs and goals

• Establishing and maintaining a standard set of Project Management and Change Management standards, processes and best practices

• Building the team's ability to effectively translate business priorities into operational plans

Qualifications

We're seeking candidates that have the following prerequisites –

• You have a Master's degree in science, engineering, or a related field

• 5+ years of experience leading strategic, complex, cross-functional projects in regulated industries

• Proven success in project leadership

• Advantageous to have experience with change management frameworks, such as ADKAR

• You have excellent English communication skills (verbal and written) and a strong attention to detail.

As an individual, you exhibit exceptional leadership qualities, such as a positive, open, honest and holistic approach, excellent interpersonal skills, stakeholder management, communication, negotiation and analytical abilities.

About the department

Novo Nordisk Quality's Quality Systems (QS) department comprises around 300 highly skilled Quality professionals based in Bagsværd, Denmark, and Bangalore, India. The primary objective of QS is to develop and maintain our Quality Management System, which promotes robust business performance and simplifies quality processes. The responsibilities of this department include process ownership of core quality processes, ownership and support of major quality-relevant IT systems, driving major cross-organizational improvement projects for Quality, and IT Quality. This role is based in Bagsværd.

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 further information, please contact María J. Prol García,

Deadline
12 May 2024

Interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

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 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.