Senior Project Manager, Secondary Packaging

Novo Nordisk A/S; Hillerød; On-site; DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk A/S in Denmark seeks a Senior Project Manager for Secondary Packaging to lead complex projects shaping development, implementation, and continuous improvement across our global production network. You will balance user experience with quality, compliance, cost, and speed to deliver robust packaging solutions across the product lifecycle.

The role requires strong commercial acumen and a passion for understanding customers, consumers, patients, and other users, working across

Qualifications

• Academic degree and proven track record delivering complex projects globally.
• Strong commercial mindset and ability to balance customer, business, and user needs.
• Experience with consumerism, user-centric design, or outside-in thinking.
• Experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing or regulated industry is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-functional secondary packaging projects across the global production network.
• Establish project plans, governance, milestones, resources, and decision frameworks.
• Coordinate activities with packaging design, engineering, production, quality, and regulatory teams.
• Manage scope, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and quality requirements.
• Identify opportunities to simplify ways of working while maintaining quality and safety.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Customer-centricity

Commercial mindset

Education

Academic degree in engineering, science, business, or related field

Job description

Senior Project Manager, Secondary Packaging

Category: Project Management & Agile

Location: Hillerød, Capital Region of Denmark, DK

Your impact begins here

As Novo Nordisk continues to strengthen its customer- and consumer-focused healthcare experience, secondary packaging plays an increasingly important role in how patients, customers, healthcare professionals, and production colleagues experience our products.

As Senior Project Manager, you will lead complex projects that shape the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of secondary packaging solutions across our global production network. Combining strong project leadership, a commercial mindset, and an outside-in perspective, you will help translate customer, consumer, and business needs into robust solutions that create value across the product lifecycle.

This role offers the opportunity to influence how Secondary Packaging works globally while balancing user experience, quality, compliance, technical feasibility, cost, and speed.

What you'll bring

You have an academic degree and a proven track record of delivering complex projects in a global environment. Most importantly, you bring a strong commercial mindset and a passion for understanding the needs of customers, consumers, patients, and other users.

We imagine that you have:

• An academic degree within engineering, science, business, project management, or another relevant field.
• A minimum of five years' experience leading global, cross-functional projects with end-to-end accountability.
• Strong project management capabilities, including planning, governance, stakeholder management, risk management, and execution.
• Experience working across multiple functions, organisational levels, production sites, and external partners.
• A strong commercial mindset with the ability to balance customer, business, and operational needs when making decisions.
• Significant experience with consumerism, customer-centricity, user-centric design, consumer experience, or outside-in thinking.

Useful, but not essential:

• Experience from pharmaceutical manufacturing, packaging, production, or another regulated industry.
• Knowledge of secondary packaging processes, design control, validation, technology transfer, or lifecycle management.

What you'll do

As Senior Project Manager, you will lead complex secondary packaging projects from initiation through implementation and successful delivery.

You will:

• Lead cross-functional secondary packaging projects across the global production network.
• Establish project plans, governance structures, milestones, resource requirements, and decision-making frameworks.
• Coordinate activities across packaging design, engineering, production, quality, regulatory affairs, supply chain, suppliers, and other key stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, timelines, budgets, risks, dependencies, and quality requirements.
• Create clarity around priorities, responsibilities, decisions, and project progress to enable effective execution.
• Identify opportunities to simplify ways of working and bring packaging solutions to customers faster without compromising quality, compliance, or patient safety.

Success in this role requires the ability to maintain a holistic perspective while navigating complexity and leading through influence. You will build alignment across diverse stakeholder groups, challenge assumptions constructively, and create momentum even when the path forward is not fully defined.

Who you'll work with

You will join the Project Management team within Secondary Packaging, part of Device Delivery Innovation (DDI).

Secondary Packaging consists of approximately 40 colleagues across three teams covering packaging design, project management, and design control. Together, the department supports packaging for finished products throughout the product lifecycle, from development and implementation to continuous improvement and global production support.

You will work closely with colleagues across packaging design, engineering, quality, regulatory affairs, supply chain, production sites, affiliates, suppliers, and external partners worldwide. The team combines technical expertise, project leadership, and product responsibility to ensure that insights from users, production, and the market continuously help improve packaging solutions.

What you can expect here

In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead projects with significant impact across Secondary Packaging and the global production network. You will work with highly skilled colleagues, influence decisions across organisational boundaries, and help shape packaging solutions around the needs of customers, consumers, patients, and other users.

You can expect a collaborative environment that values technical excellence, curiosity, teamwork, and continuous improvement, while providing opportunities to strengthen your project leadership and business understanding.

What we offer

At Novo Nordisk, you’ll join a global healthcare company with a unique culture and strong results. We offer continuous learning, career development, and benefits tailored to your life and career stage.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from 742,600 to 1,091,600 DKK, corresponding to the level of the position. The placement within the salary range will be assessed during the recruitment process 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. Learn more about our Reward Philosophy her e .

For further information about the position, please contact Michael Friis Hansen at [e-mail]

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk, we’re not chasing quick fixes – we’re creating lasting change for long-term health. For over 100 years, we’ve been driven by a single purpose: to defeat serious chronic diseases and help millions of people live healthier lives. This dedication fuels our constant curiosity and inspires us to push the boundaries of what’s possible in healthcare. We embrace diverse perspectives, seek out bold ideas, and build partnerships rooted in shared purpose. Together, we’re making healthcare more accessible, treating and preventing diseases, and pioneering solutions that create change spanning generations. When you join us, you become part of something bigger – a legacy of impact that reaches far beyond today.