Job Description

Step into a people‑focused leadership role where your decisions directly impact patients living with serious chronic diseases. You will lead an established production team through a period of growth, operational maturity and increasing production volumes – with safety, quality and continuous improvement at the heart of everything you do.

Your new role
As Team Leader in API Purification, you will take over a well‑functioning team of approximately 25 operators working in a two‑shift setup. With strong foundations already in place and a department in development, you will play a key role in shaping how we work tomorrow.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of approximately 25 operators across a two-shift setup, ensuring a safe, engaged and high-performing working environment
• Driving daily production performance within API purification
• Maturing and embedding LEAN ways of working, identifying improvement opportunities and bringing your team along on the journey
• Ensuring compliance with GMP, EHS and quality standards in everything we do
• Collaborating closely with six fellow Team Leaders, the Production Director and colleagues across production and operations support
• Contributing to the continued development of the department as production scales up
• Acting as a visible role model for safety, quality and continuous improvement on the shop floor

Your new department
You will join API M1 – one of our showcase factories with around 650 colleagues, where the Purification area alone counts approximately 250 people across production and operations support. Reporting to the Production Director, you will be one of seven Team Leaders in production, working together to deliver on increasing volumes while continuously raising the bar on safety, quality and efficiency.

Your skills & qualifications
We are looking for an experienced leader who enjoys building strong teams and developing both people and processes in a GMP-regulated environment. You'll bring with you:

• Solid leadership experience from a pharmaceutical, biotech or other GMP-regulated production environment
• Hands-on experience with LEAN and a proven ability to drive continuous improvement
• Solid GMP knowledge and the ability to integrate compliance into daily operations
• EHS experience or a strong interest in taking on EHS responsibilities as part of the role is advantageous
• Strong people skills – you coach, develop and engage operators, build trust quickly and lead with clarity and care
• Fluency in English; Danish is an advantage given the on-site, shop-floor nature of the role

What we offer
There is, of course, more on offer here than the uniqueness of our culture and the extraordinary results we produce. Being part of a global healthcare company means opportunities to learn and develop are all around us, while our benefits are designed with your career and life stage in mind.

Salary: For this role, the Annual Base Salary ranges from DKK 651,000 to 956,900, 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 here

Contact

For further information about the position, please contact Claes Tinglev Åside, Director, at CLTQ@novonordisk.com

Deadline
22 June 2026.

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.