Project Director

1 day ago


Bloomington, Indiana, United States Novo Nordisk Full time
About the Department

At Novo Nordisk, we strive to make a meaningful impact. With over 100 years of experience in diabetes care, we have consistently led the way in innovation and excellence.

As a valued member of our team, you will have the opportunity to embark on a life-changing career, contributing to the improvement of quality of life for millions of people worldwide.

In this role, you will be part of a newly established and rapidly growing area within our company, responsible for designing, planning, and building major fill and finish expansion projects across Novo Nordisk to meet the needs of millions of patients.

You will collaborate with a global team to develop cutting-edge pharma facilities and work with advanced technology to rethink our fill and finish facilities.

Our team is responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling resources and processes to achieve project objectives within scope, time, quality, and budget constraints.

We are a dynamic and collaborative department, providing a supportive environment for professional growth and development.

What We Offer
  • Competitive pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
  • Generous paid time off, including 14 paid holidays
  • Comprehensive health insurance, dental insurance, and vision insurance, effective day one
  • Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution, plus individual company match option
  • Family-focused benefits, including paid parental and paid family medical leave
  • Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
  • Tuition assistance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • Employee referral awards

We are committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve, and the communities we operate in.

The Position

This role provides direction, leads, and manages the development and implementation of all fill and finish processes, including assembly and packaging, as part of the overall site expansion program in Indiana.

You will be responsible for building the strategic organization to support the design, build, factory acceptance testing, site acceptance testing, and qualification of all equipment for fill and finish expansion.

This position will be a key role integrated into the project management and execution team, managing strategic expansion projects, and will be responsible for full design of fill and finish expansion building and utilities to support the future expansion processes through release and turnover to system owner.

You will lead the work package owners for the areas listed above, as well as the technical and engineering team, through oversight of an organization comprised of large project teams, including full-time employees and contractors.

Relationships

This role reports to the Fill and Finish Expansion Head and serves as a member of the FFEx senior leadership team.

You will interact with global counterparts in other FFEx projects, as well as with device manufacturing development, supply chain, regulatory affairs, and quality assurance.

Essential Functions
  • Develop gate presentations and present all new expansions to PS management to secure budget for execution of expansion
  • Develop the organization to support the expansion project, ensuring that required resources to execute assembly and packaging lines are staffed
  • Identify and develop working relationships with affected customers at all levels, ensuring that customer representatives are kept appropriately informed of project activities and are encouraged to participate as appropriate
  • Participate in the expansion management team, driving site strategy and solutions for the expansion
  • Establish the appropriate project governance along with the management team to ensure the project can be executed effectively and the outcome can be sustained in the organization
  • Advise process teams representing customer needs regarding cross-functional considerations, workflow integration and coordination, and optimization of best practices
  • Provide and ensure communication with and between project and customer management at critical points in the implementation of the project plan
  • Ensure that the project is proceeding according to timelines, meeting targets and expectations, and adhering to established operating parameters; negotiate changes in project resources as necessary to achieve objectives and timelines
  • Design, establish, and maintain an organizational structure and staffing to effectively accomplish the goals and objectives of the project
  • Recruit, train, oversee, and deploy technical and functional staff
  • Develop and manage the transition work plans for all project team members, to include transition into the project and back to home departments upon completion
  • Follow all safety and environmental requirements in the performance of duties

Other accountabilities, as assigned.

Development Of People

This role is responsible for ensuring that reporting personnel have individual development plans (IDP), with annual goals and measurements that are consistent with the priorities of the business, and that interim reviews are held so that their work is focused on those priorities, and they understand their level of accountability for results and the measurement process.

You will ensure that the IDP forms include completed learning and aspiration plans and are in place for all reporting personnel to enable the achievement of goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

Manage the application and communication of all Novo Nordisk policies, procedures, and Novo Nordisk Way.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree from an accredited university required; Engineering, Economics, Business Administration preferred
  • Minimum of five (5) years of experience managing other managers required; experience in leading high-performing project teams preferred
  • Minimum of ten (10) years of proven and successful project management experience required, including:
    • Knowledgeable in core work processes and GMP concepts within a Life Science, Biotech, and/or pharmaceutical industry required
    • Understanding of complicated product documentation and standard operating procedures with attention to high-level concepts required
    • Demonstrates functional/business understanding as well as superior written and oral communication skills required
    • Extensive knowledge of project management, including the ability to create work plans and detailed project schedules
    • Proficient in problem-solving, negotiation, conflict management, and interpersonal skills required
    • Ability to act as project lead and lead cross-functional project teams in the development and implementation of projects required
    • Ability to influence others on objectives and project outcomes required
    • Basic understanding of contractual documents required
    • Ability to read/review design drawings (CAD) with a basic understanding of P&IDs required

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