People Leader

Are you an experienced leader with a drive to motivate and engage people in large complex programs? Do you want to be part of leading & inspiring people in an ambitious, global, complex program? This is your opportunity to play a crucial role in an accelerated and critical program to globally expand our Fill & Finish Production facilities.

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The position

As a People Leader, you are a servant leader with a passion for leading people, has ability to set direction, provide guidance, care for people's wellbeing and drive their development.

You will be working with complex business challenges across the global program with keen focus on accelerating our recruitment and onboarding processes. By utilizing your leadership skills and knowledge about complex program management, you will play an instrumental role in strengthening the team of specialists and project managers, in close collaboration with our Discipline Leads. You will be a member of a People Leader – Community of Practice across DD&IT PS, acting as Ambassador for Fill & Finish Expansions and be responsible for sharing and adopting best practices.

Finally, you will report to the Project Vice President for IT & Automation, Fill & Finish Expansions who has the overall responsibility for business partnering, design and execution of the program.

The interim position starts on April 1st 2024 and is due March 31st 2025.

Your responsibilities include, but not limited to:

Direct Manager for 18-22 Automation Engineers, Specialists and Project Managers ensuring well-being, development and acting as escalation point Partner and collaborate closely with our Discipline Leads to enable high-performing teams Develop and drive people strategy incl. sourcing of talents – make/buy, partnering and/or growing talents internally, as well as recruitment, retainment, attraction, and rotation Facilitate and ensure solid onboarding of new joiners Manage costs and budgets Candidate profile You hold a relevant master's degree and possess minimum 3 years of people leader. Moreover, we see our next colleague as having: Ability to lead and motivate a team of engaged and experienced talents Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with internal and external stakeholders across different functions and seniority levels Agility to pick up new tasks and passionate about finding and driving continuous improvement Experience working with complex programs driven by strategically crucial timelines About the department
Digital, Data & IT Product Supply (DD&IT PS), Fill & Finish Expansions is a program organization built in a multi-dimensional matrix structure, that's designed to foster cross-organizational and cross-functional collaboration to shape our future. Our goal is to design and build future-proof, global fill & finish production facilities, with a focus on establishing strong foundational IT and automation that will enable these facilities to digitally evolve. As a member of our leadership team, you will play a crucial role in accelerating a critical program to globally expand our Fill & Finish Production facilities.

Every day, our thousands of digital experts work in all areas of technology. We navigate the tech spectrum, from front-end to back-end, from artificial intelligence to machine learning, and from cloud systems to quantum computing. We push boundaries and make a tangible impact on lives across the globe. How we do this? Go explore at TechLife at Novo Nordisk.

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Novo Nordisk is a global healthcare company headquartered in Denmark. For 100 years, we have been driving change to defeat diabetes and other serious chronic diseases. As a result, our treatments today benefit millions of people living with diabetes, obesity, and rare blood and endocrine diseases. We are proud of that. We are proud of our people too, and we employ more than 61,000 bright and diverse minds in 80 offices worldwide. With us, your bright mind and commitment help us change lives for people worldwide. In exchange, we offer you a seat in a rewarding and purpose-driven culture where your professional and personal development is highly valued. That said, opportunities are many in Novo Nordisk. Bring your questions If you have questions about the position, please contact Preeti Shrihari on

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