Manager for IT/Automation Team (Denmark, Hillerød)

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Hillerød, Denmark

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Manufacturing

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Do you want to be part and lead the way for the future active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) production? Are you ready to take the next step and pursue a lifechanging career at Novo Nordisk, where your work will be vital to the success of our patients?
If you have a strong leadership background, or you might be at the start of your leadership career this is your opportunity to be involved in the project from the beginning. Apply now and join us!

The Position
We have an open position for Manager for IT and automation supporting the project area as process, facility and warehouse, within the areas such as MES and DCS systems.

As associate manager for our It/Automation team driving the 25L PS API Expansion project when finished, you will be part of the management team leading the future PS API facility. The main responsibility is to hire, build and train the organization needed to establish the new PS API capacity.

The project will be placed in Hillerød and during the project execution your team will be integrated at the project team, with purpose to building the new PS API facility. Your work is guided by our purpose in Product Supply: To be on the forefront of technology of manufacturing and aiming at continuous, automated and state of the art facility.

You will be reporting to the Director of the future PS API facility and work in close collaboration with other managers in the PS API organization.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you have:

• A background in engineering, automation or other relevant fields for this position, preferably an academical background as master’s or bachelor’s degree.
• +5 years of experience working in IT/Automation within the pharmaceutical industry.
• Extensive experience in collaborating with different stakeholders and creating strong relationships across organization.
• Experience working as a manager leading a team is an advantage.
• Experience working with greenfield projects is preferable.
• Full proficiency in oral and written English. Danish is a strong advantage.

On a personal level you have strong communication skills and thrive on engaging with people and building relationships. You show great interest in leadership or have people management experience and demonstrate inclusive leadership by valuing and listening actively to diverse perspectives while keeping a strategic overview ensuring collaboration across business functions.

Additionally, we are obliged to be a sustainable employer encouraging and supporting decisions and behaviors that have a positive financial, environmental, and social impact. As a leader you ensure the wellbeing and development of our employees while optimizing and preparing our processes for the future.
You are a self-starter, that is capable to set direction and drive results independently whilst get commitment from stakeholders to support your projects and drive change.

About the Department
Join us at 25L PS API Expansion and become a part of one of Novo Nordisk’s most significant expansion projects, embedded in Product Supply API. We are building a new API production facility in Hillerød that will employ around 340 colleagues. The highly automated production facility will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology that is flexible to accommodate new processes and products. We manufacture through complex chemical and biotechnological processes requiring an important level of expertise, commitment, and engagement from our employees and including cultivation, recovery, purification, and freeze-drying. It will also expand our portfolio of clinical late phase products and increase our capacity to serve more people living with rare and serious chronic diseases.

Working at API Expansion, Novo Nordisk
You will be joining PS API Expansions. The area is anchored in Novo Nordisk Product Supply, Quality & IT, which globally employ approximately 30,000 of Novo Nordisk’s 64,000 employees.

PS API Expansions is a newly established and growing area with the responsibility to design, plan and build all major API Expansions projects across Novo Nordisk to serve the needs of millions of patients.

We build and design our future API facilities as multi-product facilities with flexibility to accommodate future processes and display state-of-the-art technology and working environment. We focus on delivering the highest quality to patients globally in an efficient and environmentally sustainable way.

We are setting the standards for the future, designing facilities we will still be proud of many decades from now. We drive world class execution of capacity projects, and together we are building the future of Novo Nordisk.

Contact
If you would like to discuss further, you are welcome to contact Director Helle Grubbe at +45 34481129.
We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

Deadline
13 October 2024. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, 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.