Project Manager - Operational Excellence

Department – Projects & Portfolio Management, GBS

Does your motivation come from challenges and working in a dynamic environment? Do you thrive in a working environment where close collaboration with key stakeholders and strategic alignment is essential? Do you have a can-do attitude with continuous improvement as one of your career objectives? Then we might have the right position  Project Manager- Operational Excellencefor you. Apply now and join a growing team, working in an international environment.

About the Department

GBS Consulting is a high impact internal management consulting team working on strategic initiatives of GBS management and the affiliates. We act as a strategic sounding board to GBS Management in delivering successful outcomes to the organization. This team is a platform for high visibility and growth providing a unique opportunity to work with senior management of NN GBS to help our stakeholders add value to the organization by solving strategic problems, setting new standards, driving best practices, and building playbooks following the NN ways of working.

The Position

As a Project Manager, - Operational Excellence you will be responsible for:

• Partner with GBS organization and functional leadership to drive enterprise-wide change management and associated projects across project scoping, design, validation, and implementation phases.
• Assist internal consulting team/ affiliates on strategic consulting projects across research, drug development, regulatory, safety, quality, supply chain, commercial, marketing, and other areas.
• Work on projects supporting affiliate organisations across the pharma value chain
• Use problem solving skills to come up with a solution, design the solutions and work with the stakeholders to finalise approach. Also, drive workshops to solve the problem at hand.
• Prepare the project charter that explains the objective, approach, expected outcomes, team structure and high-level project plan with key milestones.
• Prepare a stakeholder list and participate/conduct stakeholder interviews and prepare tools and templates that would help in delivering the project milestones. Assist in building relevant presentations, external meeting preparations and arranging field visits with peer companies (if required).

Qualifications

• Master’s degree within relevant area and other relevant business experience in Project Management or Project consulting.
• Minimum 6 years of prior experience of working with pharma/life sciences clients on business consulting projects Significant proven project management experience from top tier consultancies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent proficiency with Office 365 skills (Ppt., excel and word) and project related resource planning and reporting.
• High degree of flexibility and can shoulder additional workload when necessary.
• Ability to influence and align the stakeholders.

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 63,000 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

To submit your application, please upload your CV online (click on Apply and follow the instructions). 

Deadline

5th Oct, 2024.

Disclaimer

It has been brought to our attention that there have recently been instances of fraudulent job offers, purporting to be from Novo Nordisk and/or its affiliate companies. The individuals or organizations sending these false employment offers may pose as a Novo Nordisk recruiter or representative and request personal information, purchasing of equipment or funds to further the recruitment process or offer paid trainings. Be advised that Novo Nordisk does not extend unsolicited employment offers. Furthermore, Novo Nordisk does not charge prospective employees with fees or make requests for funding as a part of the recruitment process.

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.