Do you want to play a key role in Novo Nordisk’s Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) production and largest investment projects? This is your opportunity to drive the Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) efforts in one of Novo Nordisk’s main production areas with high External Environment and Occupational Health and Safety exposure.

Apply today for a life-changing career!

The position
As our new Head of Environment, Health & Safety in API production, you will be responsible for developing and accomplishing our strategies within the EHS area and ensuring that we remain best in class in the area. You will work with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders to ensure our high performance in the area both short and long-term.

You will be responsible for:

Driving and developing the External Environment and Occupational Health and Safety functional strategies for Product Supply (PS) API
Developing and owning standards for PS API within External Environment and Occupational Health and Safety
Making sure that our legal, and ISO certification requirements are met, and evaluating all external environment and occupational health and safety factors in our capacity expansion projects
Ensuring that suppliers have enough capacity for critical utilities and waste management
Driving our Circular for Zero ambition including expansion of industrial symbiosis activities

Last but not least, you will be responsible for leading a team of 6-8 highly specialized colleagues, fostering a culture of safety, collaboration and open communication, and driving progress towards environmental goals.

Qualifications
We imagine that a successful candidate has:

A Master's degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or another relevant field
Some years of experience in managerial positions within the EHS area in a production setting
Fluent English skills

As a person, you work effectively through others and command natural respect through your leadership and stakeholder management skills. You work independently and proactively and enjoy identifying improvement initiatives supporting production facilities. You have a flair for motivating and engaging employees and stakeholders – customer orientation and cooperation skills are extremely important. You have a high drive and work efficiency.

About the department
The position is placed in API Business Support area at production site in Kalundborg which is part of our global production division: Product Supply – counting close to 14.000 employees worldwide. The team is newly established and currently consists of a handful highly engaged employees. The API Business Support area consists of about 160 highly qualified employees with a multitude of professional backgrounds, all with the common purpose of supporting our production the best way possible. At the site Kalundborg, we produce diabetes and obesity products 24/7 distributed to patients worldwide.

Working at Novo Nordisk

At Novo Nordisk, we don’t wait for change. We drive it. 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. From research and development, through to manufacturing, marketing and sales – we’re all working to move the needle on patient care.

Contact

For further information, please contact Corporate Vice President for PS API Business Support, Kristian Touborg at +45 3448 0406, or HR Business Partner, Sune Stefansson, at +45 3079 9954.

Deadline

2 April 2024.

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.

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