Senior Training Partner

Are you passionate about learning, lean, and leadership? Do you want to work with skilled colleagues and stakeholders throughout the organization connecting business strategy with training and human performance solutions to achieve significant results that align with business strategy? Does it sound exciting to make a difference every day for thousands of colleagues as well as people living with serious chronic diseases? Then, we have the right job for you.

Join us for a life-changing career!

The job

As a Senior Training Partner, you will cover the business area of chemistry, Manufacturing and Control (CMC) Development & Scaling. In this role, you will be responsible for the establishment, execution, and impact of the training strategy in CMC. To do so, you spend a lot of time on CMC’s many “shop floors” engaging with leaders, local training professionals, process group members, and a lot of other colleagues from CMC and P&O (People & Organisation).

To succeed with strategic and operational targets, CMC management has decided to embark on an ambitious plan to invest and improve training and further accelerate continuous improvements over the coming years.

In the position, you will:

• Act as a strategic partner to CMC Development & Scaling Mgmt. supporting accelerated competence development, required business impact, and a culture of continuous improvements.
• Take the lead on implementing a modern and user-friendly training system, based on proven learning, lean, and human performance principles (“Training for Competences”).
• Advice and support management in developing a high-performing, customer-centric training organization at all sites, incl. a network of training managers that you lead.
• Support CMC management and stakeholders at all levels to execute a master plan that links key strategic targets with the implementation of prioritized training projects.
• Prioritise and manage requests for new training solutions provided by Process Groups.      
• Ensure that Project Managers and Consultants are allocated in due time to drive CMC’s training project portfolio forward.
• Support the development of attractive business cases and facilitate training maturity assessments to identify continuous improvements.
• Engage in analyses and evaluations of business problems to determine appropriate solutions and provide relevant advice as a trusted partner.

Another key aspect of the position is serving as Area Process Manager of Job Specific Training. In this role, you become a member of NN’s Corporate Training Process group and lead CMC’s training process group to ensure cGxP compliance and drive process optimizations.

Qualifications

• A relevant master’s degree and at least 5 years of relevant experience with developing and implementing training and/or lean programs, preferably in regulated environments.
• Demonstrated success in complex stakeholder management and change management is essential.
• Leadership skills, business acumen, and a “customer first” mindset
• Training and practical experience in relevant areas, such as L&D, lean, project management, and/or cGxP, in addition to your academic degree.
• Experience with coaching and/or practicing lean leadership is an advantage.
• Experience with digital learning technologies and/or behavioral design/nudging is an advantage.

About the department
You will join Training Partnering & Execution (TP&E), a part of Training & Capability Building (T&CB), a business unit in Global People & Organisation.

You will report directly to the Vice President of TP&E.

In TP&E we deliver solutions to accelerate competence development, prevent human errors, and drive human performance. We deliver efficient onboarding programs, eliminate waste, and improve both timely training, effective and fast (“time-to-skill”). When new production lines and facilities are being built, we deliver complete training solutions, incl. standards, job aids, and performance support technologies in collaboration with our skilled colleagues from LoB and T&CB.

You will experience highly skilled, innovative, and helpful colleagues. We believe in strength-based cooperation and an environment where everybody helps and inspires each other to succeed, grow, and develop. Your closest colleagues will be a team of SVP Training Partners (senior training consultants/specialists), managers and specialists as well as Novo Nordisk’s Process Manager of Job Specific Training. In addition, you will be working in close collaboration with various Training Consultants, Training Project Managers, and other Training Professionals from our business area. What we all have in common is our passion for human development, solving real and significant business problems and thereby serve millions of people living with severe chronic diseases.   

Working in Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we do not wait for change. We drive it. We are 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. 

Should you wish to learn more about working at Novo Nordisk, there may be a good place for you to begin: https://www.novonordisk.com/careers/working-at-novo-nordisk.html

Contact
For further information, please contact Jeppe Albæk Thomsen at +45 3079 4067. 

Deadline
28th April 2024.

Please note that applications are screened and interviews scheduled on an ongoing basis, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.

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.