Are you passionate about leading a team of highly skilled professionals and specialists? Do you excel in developing advanced mathematical models and driving digitalization initiatives? If so, we invite you to join us as a Manager in API Manufacturing Science Analytical Technology at Novo Nordisk.
Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!
The position
As Manager for the Data & Digital team within the API Manufacturing Science Analytical Technology (MSAT), you will lead a team of experts, achieving the organization’s goals through advanced modeling and digitalization initiatives. Your efforts will drive progress and innovation in our current and future products and facilities.
You can look forward to:
- Team Leadership: Lead and develop the team comprising 19 direct reports, including specialists and 8 students.
- Digitalization Initiatives: Guide the team in developing, testing, validating, and implementing digitalization initiatives to enhance our operational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Advanced Modelling: Lead the team in utilizing advanced mathematical models to estimate production capacity and perform virtual experiments across PS API (Product Supply, Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient), identifying the most promising ideas for further experimentation and development.
- Stakeholder Management: Support and develop stakeholder management in the team, and manage relationships with stakeholders from related teams and leaders at different levels. The team is working cross organizationally at different locations and is expected to understand the business area at a broad scale.
- Talent Development: Supervise graduate students annually to identify potential talent and support the education and development of team members.
In this role, you will also participate in steering groups to ensure continued development, alignment, support, and goal setting for advanced modelling and digitalization. You will ensure adherence to Novo Nordisk’s policies and best practices, fostering continuous alignment and communication within the team. Your leadership will be crucial in driving strategic initiatives and maintaining high standards of excellence.
Qualifications
We are looking for a candidate who is experienced in leading an expert team through navigating the complexities of manufacturing processes and organizational structures. You should also have:
- Academic background in engineering or natural science, for example in chemical engineering, industrial engineering, mathematical engineering, or other related fields.
- Proven experience in leading teams and driving strategic initiatives, with excellent organizational skills.
- High analytical capacity, flexibility, and change readiness, coupled with a strategic mindset and independent decision-making ability.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate and cooperate across the organization.
- Experience in the pharmaceutical industry is highly advantageous, along with familiarity with data systems, analytics, and organizational studies.
As a person, you are proactive, ambitious, and targeted, with excellent communication skills. You demonstrate natural ownership and leadership, showing empathy, respect, and understanding for others' work. You are systematic, structured, and ready for change, with a high level of business understanding. You help create a positive work climate, maintain high confidentiality and loyalty, and are engaged and effective in your responsibilities.
About the department
The job is within PS API MSAT Business Support department, located in Bagsværd. Our team provides essential services and assistance to ensure the smooth and efficient operation of MSAT. You will lead the team, responsible for developing and implementing MSAT strategy of data, digital solutions, and modelling related to current and future products. The atmosphere is dynamic and collaborative, with a focus on stakeholder management, innovation and excellence.
Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 63,000 employees around the world. We recognise the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.
Contact
For further information please contact Senior Manager for API MDev Business Support, Maria Gullander, at +45 3075 1258.
Deadline
1 October 2024.
We will conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so do not hesitate to apply today.
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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.