Associate Manager for newly established Training Support team

Are you an experienced leader with a strong passion for competency development, and would you like to play a crucial role in ensuring effective training of employees at our production sites? Are you motivated by standardizing and continuously improving the training processes and our support to the production units working in a highly regulated environment? Do you have the skills and expertise to develop and empower a team of talented employees? If the answer is yes, we have the perfect opportunity for you. The position As the Associate Manager of our newly established Training Support team, you will lead 12 highly skilled Training Supporters and Job Function Coordinators who deliver high-quality training support to our production units in Gentofte and Kirke Værløse. The team has two has to key responsibilities: · developing standardized training and ensuring that training initiatives have a strategic approach that creates business impact · ensuring a world-class training administration as well as a high level of compliance and inspection readiness in our training systems. The Training Supporters and Job Function Coordinators are primarily situated locally at our production sites and to understand what adds value and makes a difference for your stakeholders, you will spend most of your time on the shop floor, leading and coaching your team. Your key responsibilities will include: · Developing and executing a standardized strategy for continuously improving the quality of training at the production sites together with the Senior Manager · Building and maintaining stakeholder relationships in departments and ensuring that they experience a high level of support. · Coaching your team to and developing new solutions to enhance performance. · Support the site’s efforts to improve multiple training-related KPIs, including time-to-skill, reduce deviations relation to inadequate training material and past-due training. · Create systems and structures together with your team to ensure a high level of compliance within our training systems. Qualifications The most important qualification is your passion and drive to develop a great team with high engagement and performance. To succeed in this position, you: · Have 2-3 years of a leadership experience preferably within training, production or HR. · OR hold a relevant master’s degree in adult learning, organizational development, psychology or similar · Solid experience in change management, as well as excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills · Experience with developing training, competence development and driving projects in a large organization. · Fluency in both written and spoken Danish and English is a prerequisite. 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. The department The team is a part of a small department of 20 employees responsible for all training and onboarding relative activities from designing and implementing new training standards to securing continues improvement and high-level daily support to all our Biotech & Rare Disease (BRD) production units in Gentofte and Kirke Værløse. The department is a part of our local production site business support function. The co-teams in the department are responsible for investment projects and -validation, project portfolio management, LEAN, Business Intelligence and Warehouse Operations. Working at Novo Nordisk At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive change. We’re 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. 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 47,000 employees to change the lives for the better for millions of patients, living with diabetes and other chronic diseases. Together, we go further. Together, we’re life-changing. Contact If you want to know more about the position, please don’t hesitate to contact Senior Manager, Maria Nathalie Vest +45 3075 1052. Deadline December, 31th 2023. Please note that applications will be reviewed continuously, and interviews will be conducted ongoing during December and January. Please attach CV and cover letter to your application. 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.