LEAN Business Partner

Are you passionate about driving organisational development through LEAN? Do you thrive on enabling structured problem-solving, improving processes, and embedding a strong improvement culture on the shopfloor? Join us and play a key role in shaping how LEAN drives impact across our manufacturing operations.Your new roleAs LEAN Business Partner, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening LEAN maturity and ensuring the strategy is translated into tangible operational improvements. Acting as a trusted advisor to leadership, you will help shape direction, drive continuous improvement, and enable sustainable change. The position is part of the leadership team with direct reference to the department manager.Your key responsibilities will include:

Driving deployment of LEAN strategy into operational solutions that create measurable value

Partnering closely with leadership to strengthen LEAN culture, standards, and maturity

Coaching leaders and employees in LEAN principles, tools, and behaviours

Identifying improvement opportunities through data insights and structured problem-solving

Acting as a catalyst for change by enabling alignment between strategy and business processes

Your new departmentYou will join API Manufacturing M1, a unit of more than 650 colleagues across production and support functions. In API Manufacturing M1, we are responsible for fermentation, recovery, purification and drying of the final API, and ensure it is delivered to the next stage in the supply chain. We foster a workplace built on innovation, embracing change and diversity, and we act as a trusted partner to our stakeholders— delivering reliable API supply to Drug Product manufacturing.Your skills and qualificationsWe are looking for a collaborative and driven professional who brings strong LEAN expertise and the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.To succeed in this role, we imagine you have:

A relevant academic degree and experience advising stakeholders across an organisation

Proven experience implementing and developing LEAN, ideally translating it into tangible improvements

Strong coaching and facilitation skills, with the ability to inspire and challenge constructively

Solid analytical capabilities, including data analysis and identification of improvement trends

Excellent communication skills, with fluency in Danish and English

You are a strong change agent who can set direction independently, build trust, and motivate others to embrace continuous improvement.What we offerThere is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from DKK 651,000 to 956,900, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process based on the candidate’s skills, competencies, knowledge, and relevant experience.Incentives and Benefits: The salary package may include short-term and/or long-term incentives as well as other employee benefits based on position level, location, functional area and relevant market benchmarks.Learn more about our Reward Philosophy hereDeadline17 July 2026.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. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. We look forward to receiving your application!We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.At [xxxxx], we're not chasing quick fixes – we're creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we've been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what's possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we're making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.