Project Manager, Release of API

Are you an experienced Project Manager with a background in API production? Are you ready to be a part of Novo Nordisk's significant expansion project in Hillerød? We are looking for a Project Manager to join our Operational Readiness track for the release of API and QMS systems. If you have a strong knowledge of release procedures in API production units and are ready to take on a new challenge, read on and apply today for a life-changing career.

The position
As a Project Manager, you will:
•    Develop Product Release Flow diagram from Procedures and Systems defined in the project.
•    Translate technical designs into procedures for release, working closely with our local project team, central core team stakeholders, and other departments.
•    Define strategy for release within the electronic documentation.
•    Ensuring Integration of systems (LIMS, PasX, DeltaV, SAP etc) in release process
•    Coordinate project activities, including analyzing designs, methods, and internal manufacturing processes to ensure alignment in the project.
•    Implement process improvements in product design and manufacturing methods.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you should have the following qualifications:
•    An academic degree within Engineering, Science, Pharmacist or similar.
•    Strong knowledge of release procedures in API production units.
•    Proven experience in project management, preferably within the pharmaceutical industry.
•    Knowledge of manufacturing processes and quality assurance.
•    Experience in implementing process improvements and changes.
•    Full proficiency in written and spoken English.

As a professional, you have excellent organizational and communication skills. On a personal level, you are reliable, loyal, structured and capable of motivating a team to achieve project objectives. Also, you can lead through others and set clear objectives for a project team. You enjoy working according to tight deadlines and being a part of a dynamic team. Moreover, being self-motivated, working independently, and having the habit of thinking steps ahead of others are prominent traits. 

About the department
Our team is working to expand the Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) capacity of our Biotech production in Hillerød. You will become a part of one of the most significant expansion projects in Novo Nordisk – and when finished the facility will employ app. 340 colleagues. The highly automated facility will be equipped with state-of-the-art technology that is flexible to accommodate new processes and products. It will expand our capacity for our portfolio of clinical late phase products to serve more people living with serious chronic diseases including rare diseases. 
We do not only drive change for our patients – we also drive life-changing careers for our employees by promoting a learning culture with high levels of trust, innovation, and development throughout the organisation. To drive the project and reach the initial phase of production, we need your help! Are you ready to join the project team and our journey? 

Working at BDR, 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 3400 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 further information, please contact Helle Grubbe, Director at +45 34481129.

Deadline
30 April 2024.

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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.