Senior Manager for M1 Purification
Job description
Your impact begins here
As Senior Manager for M1 Purification, you will lead a skilled support team and help deliver more capacity and stable, high-quality production from our Kalundborg facility. You will develop your people, sharpen performance and secure quality and compliance every day.
What you'll bring
To lead this team well, we expect you to have:
- Proven leadership experience, with the ability to develop, coach and grow a team.
- Strong stakeholder collaboration skills and the ability to communicate at all levels of the organisation.
- Strong analytical skills and a structured approach to identifying opportunities, solving problems systematically, and proactively improving processes, performance, and ways of working.
- The ability to stay calm, prioritise and make clear decisions in a busy environment where the agenda changes frequently.
- Fluency in English, and Danish—or a willingness to learn it.
Useful, but not essential:
- Experience with the production and/or development of pharmaceutical products.
- Experience in GMP-regulated environments and demonstrated ability to apply LEAN thinking to optimize processes, improve performance, and drive continuous improvement.
What you'll do
You will lead a support team and, as part of the leadership team, help keep two production lines running efficiently, safely and in line with requirements. You will:
- Drive organisational development and strengthen LEAN maturity through the active application of LEAN principles, coaching, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Recruit, lead, and retain a high-performing team, ensuring the right capabilities, capacity, and competencies to meet current and future business needs.
- Ensure stable production output and timely product release through continuous improvement, operational excellence, and a focus on sustainable results.
- Set clear objectives and targets that realise productivity gains and cost optimisations.
- Secure product and process quality and compliance
- Coordinate, prioritise and plan resources and tasks—including portfolio management of multiple projects of varying size and complexity.
- Work closely with your leadership colleagues to create a strong and resilient organisation through collaboration, operational excellence, and people leadership.
Who you'll work with
You will join M1 Purification, a department of around 250 people organised across five support teams and a production department of seven production teams, operating two lines that produce strategically important products for Novo Nordisk. As part of the leadership team, you will work closely with your leadership colleagues to drive alignment, ensure strong cross-functional collaboration, and deliver stable and consistent operational performance.
In Global Manufacturing & Supply, colleagues work across the value chain to scale processes and products for the people who need them. In API IO Manufacturing M1 you will collaborate with a skilled team and act as a trusted partner to stakeholders, delivering reliable API supply on to Drug Product manufacturing.
What you can expect here
You will work in a dynamic, constantly developing business area where your leadership shapes performance and your people are trusted to do their best work. You will build new skills through cross value chain experiences, grow alongside your colleagues, and be recognised for the results you deliver, in a workplace built on innovation, change and diversity.
Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 DKK (DK), corresponding to the level of the position. Placement within the range is assessed during recruitment 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.
Start now
Your impact begins today. If you are ready to lead a strong team and deliver more capacity and reliable, high-quality API for patients around the world, apply for the Senior Manager for M1 Purification role by 11 October 2026.
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Skills mentioned
We are a global healthcare company, founded in 1923 and headquartered just outside Copenhagen, Denmark. Our purpose is to drive change to defeat serious chronic diseases, built upon our heritage in diabetes. We do so by pioneering scientific breakthroughs, expanding access to our medicines, and working to prevent and ultimately cure the diseases we treat. Our story began over 100 years ago when two small Danish companies started producing the revolutionary new drug, insulin, which had just been discovered by Canadian scientists. These companies, Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium and Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium, were established by individuals driven by a common goal: to make life-saving insulin available to people with diabetes in Denmark and beyond. August Krogh, a Nobel laureate, and his wife Marie, a physician whose own diabetes fueled their quest, played a pivotal role in bringing insulin production to Denmark, leading to the founding of Nordisk Insulinlaboratorium in 1923. Shortly after, in 1925, the Pedersen brothers, former Nordisk employees, established Novo Terapeutisk Laboratorium, creating a dynamic of competition and innovation that would characterize the Danish pharmaceutical landscape for decades. After years of parallel growth and groundbreaking research, these two entities merged in 1989 to form Novo Nordisk A/S, a company that has since expanded rapidly. Today, we are a world leader not only in diabetes care but also in obesity care, haemophilia care, and therapies for rare endocrine disorders. Our commitment extends beyond developing innovative medicines; we strive to make them accessible to patients worldwide. We employ more than 77,000 people across 80 offices globally and market our products in approximately 170 countries. The Novo Nordisk Way, our set of guiding principles, is rooted in the vision of our founders and continues to inspire our thousands of colleagues. We are dedicated to applying our passion, skills, and commitment to defeat serious chronic diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people and represent some of the most urgent global health challenges. Our U.S. headquarters is located in Plainsboro, New Jersey, playing a vital role in the life sciences industry through sales, marketing, and clinical trial management for all Novo Nordisk U.S. products. We are also significantly investing in manufacturing capabilities, including a $4.1 billion expansion in North Carolina, to meet the growing demand for our diabetes and obesity medications.
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