Associated manager -Warehouse Operations

Are you an inspiring leader who thrives on creating success together with your team? Are you motivated by driving operational performance and improvements while ensuring standardisation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Join us as an Associate Manager for our Warehouse Operations and lead a team that plays a vital role in delivering life-changing products to patients worldwide. Apply today and embark on a life-changing career with Novo Nordisk!

The position

As Associate Manager, you will:

• Lead and set the direction for a team of eight operators in our Warehouse Operations, supporting four production lines.

• Ensure efficient and high-quality daily operations in accordance with GMP standards to secure a stable supply chain for our rare disease portfolio.

• Drive operational improvements and standardisation to enhance efficiency and quality.

• Play a key role in a major transformation project to prepare the warehouse for supporting three additional production lines by the end of 2026, including physical upgrades, designing new workflows, and building team competencies.

• Collaborate with a wide range of stakeholders across the site, planning, and central warehouse functions to ensure seamless operations and readiness for future demands.

To succeed in this role, you must be structured, effective, and consistent in executing day-to-day deliverables while maintaining a strategic focus on long-term objectives.

Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you should have the following qualifications:

• Minimum 2–3 years of experience in warehouse operations, supply chain, logistics, or a related field.

• Proven managerial experience in a production environment, ideally within the pharmaceutical industry or a similar regulated sector.

• Strategic, innovative, and analytical mindset with a strong focus on continuous improvement.

• Experience with LEAN principles and solid stakeholder management skills are preferred.

• Fluency in both English and Danish is required.

As a manager, you are open and honest, and you take pride in seeing your team succeed through collaboration. You set clear expectations and tangible goals, communicating them effectively so everyone understands how to achieve success. You design simple, effective systems that work for the people using them, knowing that involvement is key to building ownership and empowerment.

About the department

You will be part of the Finish Products Manufacturing Operations team in Gentofte and Kirke Værløse, reporting to the Senior Manager. Our site is one of the smallest within Novo Nordisk, with approximately 250 employees and four production lines. However, we are on an exciting growth journey, expanding with three new lines over the next year and introducing new products and devices to our portfolio. The management team consists of five managers and an assistant, creating a close-knit and collaborative atmosphere where your contributions will make a real difference.

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 recognise 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 more information, please contact Senior Manager Maria Nathalie Vest Hansen at prior 11th of July 2025

Deadline

30 July 2025

You do not need to attach a cover letter to your application, but please include a few sentences about why you are applying in your resume or CV. To ensure an efficient and fair recruitment process, please refrain from adding a photo in your CV. The interviews will be conducted on an ongoing basis. Please send your CV in English.

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.