LEAN Coach

Are you looking for an opportunity where you can support leadership development and thereby business development? Do you want to be involved in helping to ensure operational excellence through supporting LEAN behavior at our manufacturing facilities focused on supplying medicine for patients living with rare diseases?

If so, we welcome a LEAN Coach to join us within Biotech and Rare Disease (BRD) based in Gentofte!

The position

As a LEAN Coach, you will be welcomed into BRD with a focus on supporting LEAN leadership behavior across our manufacturing sites. Our facilities are currently on a growth journey and LEAN is and will be one of our most essential tools on that journey to ensure an efficient manufacturing process of medicine for patients living with rare diseases. You contribute to that journey through a structured coaching approach by following our managers at different levels on shopfloor and providing feedback, teaching, and coaching.

As part of your main responsibilities, you will:

• Identify scope and drive initiatives, form a LEAN coaching perspective, enabling us to reach our ambitious business goals.
• Take on a train the trainer role, to further mature and develop other LEAN resources in the area, as you are mature in the role.

You will be part of a LEAN network across different manufacturing facilities where you will have the opportunity to share knowledge and gain inspiration from others.

Qualifications

You will be a great asset to our team because your experiences include:

• A relevant academic degree with experience/ knowledge within applying LEAN at shop floor. 
• Experience from a manufacturing or production environment.
• Experience in supporting, guiding, and advising colleagues. Experience/ knowledge with coaching and providing feedback is advantageous.
• An understanding of LEAN tools, e.g. performance management, visual management, systematic problem solving and process confirmations. 
• Fluency in English both written and spoken.

On a personal level, you have excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to build relations at all levels. You excel at supporting stakeholders at shop floor and provide feedback and reflections. You work in a systematic and a structured way that supports keeping track of progress and planning further actions. 

About the department

Aseptic Production site Gentofte is part of Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD). At our sites across Gentofte, we are more than 700 colleagues responsible for the aseptic production where we are transforming the API (Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient) into finished products for people living with serious chronic diseases. We work with advanced processes such as formulation, filling, and freeze-drying in a sterile environment. We bring value to our patients by delivering high-quality products in compliance with GMP (Good Manufacturing Practice) in a timely and cost-effective manner as we constantly optimize our processes and invest in new technology.  

Working at 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.

Contact

For more information, please contact Cecilie Lühdorf Moberg via phone: +45 3448 1242. (NB: Not available on Wednesdays)

Deadline

21 April 2024. We will process applications as we receive them, so do not hesitate 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.