Associate Director, Training

The Position

The Associate Director, Training will lead the Training organization across the Group Vice President (GVP) area to drive compliance and performance improvements within regulatory environment. The incumbent will set a clear vision for training across the GVP area that aligned with business strategy, drive engagement, foster a culture of continuous improvements, and ensure capabilities required to deliver on current and future business priorities.

The incumbent will lead Training Managers and Training Partners across the GVP area. Drive alignment, capability development, operational excellence, and consistent implementation of training standards and best practices. Lead and collaborate across organisational boundaries, building strong partnerships with business leaders, coaching training leaders, and creating a connected training community across the GVP area, enabling knowledge sharing, collaboration, and impactful business outcomes.

Lead timely capability building to close gaps identified as a part of strategic workforce planning. Drive talent management, workforce planning and agility, organizational effectiveness, fast "Time-to-Perform", and maturity assessments and improvements across the GVP area.

Responsible for training compliance and inspection readiness across the GVP area. Ensure strong leadership of process managers of Job Specific Training at each site in the GVP area and adequate responses to compliance signals as defined by Novo Nordisk's Corporate Process Group within Job Specific Training. The incumbent is seeking to build synergies and standardizations across GVP area, as relevant. As member of Global Manufacturing Supply (GMS) Training Leadership Team, contributing to strategic enterprise improvements, collaboration and knowledge sharing around problems, solutions, and strategic impact.

The incumbent reports directly to the Head of People & Organization (P&O) of Drug Product Manufacturing (DPM) US with a matrixed reporting relations ship to the P&O Site Leads of the assigned sites. Interacts with all levels of the business. The incumbent works in alignment with and close partnership and collaboration with P&O Site Leads at DPM US Sites, who are overall accountable for training and capability development at the respective Sites, while the incumbent will be responsible for the execution and delivery of the training strategy, priorities and initiatives.

Other key stakeholders include GMS P&O Training & Execution, line of business leaders, HR Business Partners within the assigned Sites, and other internal/ external stakeholders as relevant.

• Lead, train, and engage Training personnel across the GVP area
  • Set clear direction for training partners. Ensure clarity of purpose, roles, and responsibility while motivating, inspiring, coaching, and providing timely feedback, resulting in high level of engagement and well-being in the team
  • Ensure strong performance and continuous competence development of employees in own department
  • Continually develop and evolve organization, manning and competencies to meet performance and business needs
  • Consistently practice cLEAN Leadership – in tools, thinking way, and culture
  • Support systematic problem solving, cGxP compliance within training, relevant QMR activities and adequate progress of Quality Improvement Plans
  • Responsible for budget of the department
  • Build synergies and scale best practice training solutions based on business needs and priorities across NN/GMS
  • Drive aligned implementation and use of GMS training standards, tools, and technologies
  • Oversee the performance of training systems and solutions
  • Establish, lead, and facilitate a network of training team leaders across the GVP area
• Strategic Training Partnering and Area Process Management
  • Keep the direction clear, simple, and continuously aligned with management and Process Owners
  • Ensure training compliance and inspection readiness within Job Specific Training (GxP Training)
  • Provide on-going sparring to GVP, VPs & Managers of Training Professionals
  • Drive yearly and quarterly implementation plans and systematically follow up
  • Ensure GVP area is represented in…