API Project Managers for TIDES and Small Molecule

Are you motivated by joining an expanding area and be part of shaping the future of Novo Nordisk’s chemical manufacturing by serving as an authentic and driven API Project Manager?

Then apply now and start your new journey!

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The position

ET API MDev consists of three teams, covering Tides chemistry, small molecules, cross-functional support and API Project management (life-cycle management). Our focus is to support the implementation, validation, life-cycle management, scaling and optimization of technically feasible industrial and economical chemical processes with minimum environmental impact and high throughput. Moreover, our department is product responsible and support to maintain our license-to-operate for the commercial chemically synthesized APIs (peptides, oligonucleotides and small molecules), herein to maintain solid control strategies to assure patient safety.  

As an API Project Manager, you are expected to ensure project prioritizations/deliverables (API track) and that strategies are followed and embedded in your project sub-team.

• You will be setting and managing tangible project goals/activities and communicate them clearly, ensuring that everyone knows how to contribute to project success.
• You will be the Product Supply responsible (API Track) for one or more synthetic chemistry-based APIs in commercial phase or during new product entry.
• Among others, you might drive various project activities including validation activities, post-approval change activities, capacity increase projects and regulatory roll-outs.
• Moreover, you will also be responsible for ensuring that the API sub-team delivers on optimisation initiatives, ensuring scaling needs are met this way.

To succeed in this role, it comes natural to you to set direction and maintain overview; you enjoy having impact, facilitate collaborations, create alignment and driving ambitious initiatives in a highly regulated environment. You must navigate a complex organization with exceptionally talented internal and external collaborators.

Examples of your primary tasks will be:

• Keep yourself updated with your API sub-team’s deliveries, know when to get involved and take action
• Support the project team’s performance by ensuring timely coordination/alignment, internally and externally
• Create and maintain supportive systems, processes and overviews to assist project SMEs navigate project complexity
• Cluster owner of drug substance process cluster for regulatory filings
• Participate in CMC/Life cycle management project core-teams as representative for the API track
• Provide project updates to NN management and in joint-steering meetings with CDMOs
• Clear and effective communication with the Novo Nordisk team (internal) and towards external collaborators
• Support the project SMEs in their collaboration with CDMOs, creating alignment of expectations.

All in all, this is a position with impact, opportunities to excel and exciting challenges that will develop your skills, build your business understanding, and expand your network in an ambitious, global organisation.

Qualifications

We are looking for an API Project Manager who is passionate about driving collaboration to achieve results. To succeed in this role, you will need:

• A PhD or MSc in chemistry, chemical engineering, or a related field within life science
• Certification within project management issued by PMI or IPMA is an advantage
• Project management experience and a natural desire to engage people, build relationships with stakeholders, align priorities and drive for timelines and deliverables
• Previous experience within CMC, manufacturing development/MSAT is highly advantageous
• Previous experience in cGMP-regulated chemical manufacturing areas and/or from the pharmaceutical industry is highly advantageous
• Understanding of CDMOs and/or experience from pharmaceutical industry is highly advantageous
• Experience with (or understanding of) process validation, life-cycle management of commercial APIs, regulatory and quality documentation are highly advantageous
• Ability to communicate and collaborate effectively with both internal and external collaborators
• Strong communication skills and fluency in written and spoken English

As a person you are authentic and empathetic with strong interpersonal skills that enables you to build trust. You like to engage, develop and motivate your project team members, while mastering the ability to communicate and collaborate effectively across disciplines, e.g. in project core teams.

Also, we expect you to be able to bridge cultural, professional, and geographical distances with ease, always focusing on how to reach sustainable solutions in an ever-changing environment.

About the department

As part of Novo Nordisk’s Product Supply organization, you will be assigned to Emerging Technologies API Manufacturing Development (ET API MDev), a cross-functional area currently being established within CMC area. We work at the interface between CMC and full-scale manufacturing with a focus on process understanding, implementation, optimization, and life cycle management. We offer a very interesting and varying job with the opportunity to work with other highly qualified and motivated colleagues in a multidisciplinary project environment.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for a 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 to manufacturing, marketing, and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact Hao Jiang at +45 3448 4222.

Deadline

May 19th, 2024. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so please submit your application 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 process, please refrain from adding a photo to 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.