Senior Manager for Operational Excellence

Are you passionate about driving operational excellence and fostering innovation at a high-volume production site? Do you have a knack for visionary thinking, building strong collaboration and stakeholder relationships, and delivering impactful results? Are you an authentic and empathetic people leader, eager to manage and secure operation through a team of dedicated employees? 

If so, we invite you to join us as our new Senior Manager for Operational Excellence. 

Read more and apply today for a life-changing career!

The position
As the Senior Manager for Operational Excellence, you will:

• Lead a department with 4 teams focused on cLEAN® process improvement, digitalization, training, archiving, and onboarding, and support the continued refinement and execution of site strategy in these areas.
• Be a visionary for what we can achieve together while maintaining a strong attention to detail and clarity of expectations to deliver impactful results.
• Oversee the budget, job landscape, and staffing of the department, ensuring the right positions and competencies to meet business needs.
• Drive the growth of LEAN thinking and execution at site, including development of leaders and specialists and maturing use of tools to solve problems and improve performance.
• Support the continued transformation of our onboarding and training functions, enhancing the competence development systems for the site.
• Ensure the development, deployment, and maintenance of digital solutions that are scalable, easy to use and maintain, and help solve our most critical production challenges.
• Strengthen a culture of understanding the OE department’s context and the reality on shop floor to provide the highest quality support.
• Be part of our Business Support management team where our core value is being one team where we focus on the development and well-being of employees as fundament for reaching our ambitions.

Qualifications
To succeed in this role, you should possess:

Need to have:

• A proven track record in managing departments or teams, with strong leadership skills that help you motivate and develop team members.
• Analytical skills with the ability to make strategic decisions that balance objective data and subjective context.
• Strong facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to simplify the complex and engage and inspire stakeholders at all levels.
• Fluent in written and spoken English (Danish would be advantageous).

Nice to have:  

• Experience in a pharmaceutical or regulated industry and/or a high-volume manufacturing context.
• Knowledge of LEAN methodologies and their application in a production or support environment. 
• Experience with digitalization or digital transformation, especially in manufacturing/business intelligence, data governance, or agile development.
• Experience with project and change management, deploying the right tools at the right scale for cases large and small.

About the department
Our department is driven by the belief that we are stronger together. We aim to set a clear direction for what excellent support looks like and deliver on that vision in collaboration with our colleagues in production and other support areas. By understanding the context around us and blending our domain expertise with the insights of our peers, we create solutions that are both innovative and grounded in reality. Located in Aseptic Manufacturing Hillerød, we are committed to fostering a supportive, collaborative, and forward-thinking atmosphere where every team member can thrive.

See more here: Novo Nordisk Hillerød

Working at Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is a leading global healthcare company with a 100-year legacy of driving change to defeat serious chronic diseases. Building on our strong legacy within diabetes, we are growing massively and expanding our commitment, reaching millions around the world and impacting more than 40 million patient lives daily. All of this has made us one of the 20 most valuable companies in the world by market cap. Our success relies on the joint potential and collaboration of our more than 72,000 employees around the world. We recognize the importance of the unique skills and perspectives our people bring to the table, and we work continuously to bring out the best in them. Working at Novo Nordisk, we’re working toward something bigger than ourselves, and it’s a collective effort. Join us! Together, we go further. Together, we’re life changing.

Contact
For further information please contact Charlotte Vang (CHVG@novonordisk.com) 

Deadline
28 July 2025

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.