Associate Manager- Warehouse Support & Procurement Team

Are you an experienced leader with a strong passion for making a difference and with GMP knowledge? Do you want to be a part of an expanding production facility where you produce medicine for patients worldwide in collaboration with competent employees and other skilled and ambitious managers? Would you like to play a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of production and play an essential role for our warehouses, as well as for other departments? If you are motivated by standardizing and continuously improving in a highly regulated environment, we have the perfect opportunity for you.

The position

As the Associate Manager for our Warehouse Support and Procurement team anchored in Business Support, you will lead a team of 9 people in Gentofte. You will be part of a leadership team in Warehouse Operations that consist of 2 other Associate Managers and a Senior Manager. You will have the opportunity to establish, serve and lead your team into an exciting future of Warehouse 4.0. You will be responsible for developing essential skills in your team to tackle any business challenge that comes your way. This also includes recruiting talents, onboarding new team members, providing comprehensive training, and building a high-performing team that's ready to take on our future opportunities and challenges in our production in Gentofte.

Your key responsibilities will include:

· Ensure compliance with GMP

· Support warehouse operations with projects, continuous improvement and securing stable delivery of high-quality products in a very regulated production environment

· Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships, ensuring high level of support.

· Coaching your team and developing new solutions to enhance performance.

· Driving and role model lean mindset

The team members are primarily situated locally near our stakeholders to understand what adds value and makes a difference, so you will spend most of your time on the shop floor, leading and coaching your team.

Qualifications

To succeed in this position, the most important qualification is your passion for people and drive to develop a great team with high engagement and performance. Moreover, you have:

· A BSc or MSc related to Life Science or Engineering.

· Have 2-3 years of a leadership experience preferably within production or QA.

· Have experience with GMP, competence development and LEAN.

· Professional proficiency in English and Danish.

Solid experience in change management, as well as excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills are essential to this position as well.

On a personal level, you have a leadership style based on trust, and mutual respect and value a fun and inclusive working environment. You have a natural talent for building a supportive environment where everyone works well together, motivates each other, and fosters personal and professional growth.

About the department

You will be a part of our Warehouse department in Business Support. Business Support is part of Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) Aseptic production in Gentofte. As Business Support we support our manufacturing areas across Gentofte. The co-teams in the department are responsible for Investment Projects, Project Portfolio Management, LEAN & Operational Excellence, Digitalisation, Manufacturing Intelligence & Business Intelligence, Planning & Capacity and Training & Onboarding.

In the department we are ambitious and strive to deliver the best possible services to our production departments. To help you do this, we will guarantee you a lot of sparring and development feedback. And we make sure to have fun while we drive the business forward.

Working at BRD, Novo Nordisk

Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) is part of Novo Nordisk Product Supply, which is a global production network at the forefront of technology and quality production of pharmaceutical products. In BRD, we are not only supplying all Novo Nordisk products to people living with serious chronic diseases, but we also use our competences in biotech to support the growing efforts into completely new production platforms and therapy areas for Novo Nordisk.

We are more than 3000 dedicated colleagues working at six production sites in Denmark and the United States. Here we cover the entire production value chain where raw materials are cultivated, purified, formulated, filled, assembled in devices, packed, and distributed across the globe. As more and more people need our products, we support Novo Nordisk's initiatives in new therapy areas. Every day, we work to streamline and expand our capacity through process innovation, automation, and the introduction of new technology.

Working at Novo Nordisk 

We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We’re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things – from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we’re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact

If you want to know more about the position, please don’t hesitate to contact Business Support Director, Derek Acheampong +45-30776389.

Deadline

Apply before May, 20th 2024.

Applications will be reviewed on a continuous basis. 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.