Center of Excellence Senior Project Manager - #398039

Are you passionate about business development in a fast-changing environment? Do you have a strategic mindset and solid change management skills to help develop the area of Project Execution?

If so, this could be the perfect opportunity for you! We are seeking a Senior Project Manager to assist in evolving our Project Management Office into a Center of Excellence. Apply now and join us for a life-changing career!

The position
As a Centre of Excellence Senior Project Manager, you will be driving the development and deployment of the future project execution strategy across our site.

Some of your tasks will include:

• Contributing to the establishment and development of the Center of Excellence within our department
• Guaranteeing effective communication to our stakeholders at the site regarding the strategic direction of our department and ensuring their support
• Ensuring that initiated projects align with the overall strategic direction set by the business
• Continuously optimizing our project managers' use of the governance framework called Project Execution Model (PEM)
• Encouraging knowledge sharing throughout the project organization and promote best practices that influence organizational development, while playing a pivotal role in developing our project managers as project leaders and in using the project manager tools appropriately
  
  
  
  

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you have:

• An Academic Degree in business, engineering, or any other relevant field
• Solid stakeholder management skills
• Several years of experience with business development, senior management support and driving strategic projects in a global stakeholder landscape
• Professional proficiency in English; knowledge of Danish will be considered an advantage
  
  
  
  

On a personal level, your stakeholder management and communication skills are extremely important. You possess the ability to create processes and governance that are transparent and robust. You have a clear understanding of what it means to boost the maturity level of project execution in our department, and you know how to leverage business development on the journey. You enjoy finding pragmatic ways to solve challenges and co-creating sustainable solutions with stakeholders. Finally, your excellent communication skills allow you to obtain strong commitment.

About The Department

You will be part of the dynamic and ambitious Project Management Office (PMO), where our more than 40 project managers execute small and large projects across our production site. We are responsible for project portfolio management, project governance and project execution within aseptic production (formulation, filling and inspection) and finished production (assembly and packaging) as well as projects within facility and building.

As our new Centre of Excellence Senior Project Manager, you can look forward to an exciting job supporting a highly engaged department, as well as engaging with and creating consensus among multiple stakeholders. As high-potential collaborator in the department, you will be able to take up a lot of responsibilities and gain support to develop your skills further. You can expect to grow both on a personal and professional level. You will meet colleagues with positive and agile mindsets, who will share their experience on how to improve processes and quality for the future demands. In our department, diversity is evident in several ways: we have an international and Danish mix, a variety of educational backgrounds, a wide range of experience levels, and individuals who have recently graduated.

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 recognize 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 Sr. Manager Sabine Pedersen Winther at +45 3075 2931 or [email protected]

Deadline
16 May 2024.

Applications will be screened on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged 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 resume or 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.