Project Director

Are you our new Project Director leading the execution of one of our most ambitious IT & automation programs for Fill & Finish Expansions? Do you want to open new horizons in your profession and develop excellence in strategic greenfield projects?
If so, this is your opportunity to play a crucial role in an accelerated and strategically critical program to globally expand our Aseptic Production facilities. Apply today to join our team!
What’s in it for you
As our new Project Director, you will drive IT & Automation for one of the largest programs in our Fill & Finish portfolio. In your new role, you will be leading a team of highly skilled project managers, work package owners across sites, and a massive cross-organizational stakeholder landscape (internal & external). Among your key responsibilities as our new project director, you will be:
• Overseeing the comprehensive project plan, schedule, milestones (including timelines), resource allocation, and budgeting
• Overseeing the project's progress, ensuring that it stays on track and meets its objectives. This will entail risk management and mitigation, problem-solving, and ensuring that all stakeholders, internal and external, are kept informed or involved throughout the project lifecycle.
• Responsible for building and maintaining positive relationships with all internal and external stakeholders, where you will be updating them on project progress, addressing concerns, and managing expectations. This will also entail acting as escalation point with senior stakeholders
• You will be responsible for leading and managing the project team, including hiring, training, coaching, and mentoring team members. You will also be responsible for managing the team's workload, tracking progress, and ensuring that everyone is working towards the same goal.
• Driving a standard approach of mobilizing the team (including a global harmonized approach on internal and external split) and executing the project across sites through site work package owners
• Responsible for ensuring the program team and sites are sufficiently prepared for FAT, SAT, and PV; also, that these processes are standardized and aligned with the overall program
The position will allow you to travel across our suppliers and production sites.
Do you have what it takes?
We seek a candidate with experience in managing large-scale and complex projects with a proven track record of successfully leading cross-functional teams and managing diverse stakeholders. In addition, we see that you will be able to tick most of the following boxes: • Comprehensive understanding of program management methodologies, tools, and techniques to effectively plan, execute, monitor, and control the program. Experience with frameworks like PMBOK or PRINCE2 and change management methodologies is an advantage
• Expertise in identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks, where you can use your strong problem-solving skills and ability to analyse situations, evaluate options, and make sound decisions under pressure.
• Experience building strong relationships and managing expectations with stakeholders by effectively communicating the program's objectives, progress, and potential risks to stakeholders at various levels of the organization.
• The ability to act as a role model in living Novo Nordisk values, gaining energy from working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Strong abilities as a leader of project teams, where you can work independently and effectively. Likewise, we expect that you are an excellent teammate, who thrives in an environment where new challenges and focus can change quickly, but always with the overall common goal in mind. About the Fill & Finish Expansion – IT & Automation
Fill and Finish Expansions is one of the most strategically critical programs for Novo Nordisk, as we are committed to addressing the future demand in the coming years. The programme aims to design and build multiple new facilities worldwide with standard, future-proof, and scalable solutions.
In Fill & Finish Expansions – IT & Automation, we are bringing new technologies into the production to further improve the automation and digitalisation of our production processes. All to raise the bar from what we can do today and bring our global production processes to the next digital level. By our co-defined ambition, we are preparing for a fast-paced rollout for our different sites.
As part of the ambitious Fill & Finish Expansions programme, we continue to grow, but one thing we make sure to maintain is our strong culture. When joining the team, you will meet a strong team with diverse minds, where we work across organisational areas and disciplines, and where everyone, regardless of these disciplines, works closely with each other. Joining the team
Fill & Finish Expansions – IT & Automation is anchored in Digital, Data & IT Product Supply (DD&IT PS). We are a global community of +1100 colleagues working with pride on digital, data, and IT solutions to strengthen our product supply activities worldwide. With a presence in 6 countries, we deliver solutions across 17 production sites and manage more than 300 systems and solutions to ensure stable and scalable production.
By joining DD&IT PS, you will take part of a growth journey driven by the need to expand our capacity and build a future-proof production. More than that, you will step into a global community where diversity, in all of its aspect, is highly valued, and where you will be met by highly engaged colleagues driven by the purpose of saving more patients’ lives. Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is its people. We know that life is anything but linear and balancing what is important at different stages of our career is never easy. That’s why we make room for diverse life situations, always putting people first. We value our employees for the unique skills they bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk is working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Novo Nordisk relies on the joint potential and collaboration of its more than 55,000 employees. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing.
Contact
If you have questions about the position, please contact Preeti Shrihari on +45 30 77 75 34. Deadline
20 August 2023
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