CLEAN Partner III

For more than 100 years, Novo Nordisk has been tackling the unmet medical needs of people living with serious chronic diseases, such as diabetes & obesity. Being part of Novo Nordisk allows our employees to embark on the opportunity to help improve the quality of life for millions of people around the world.

Our new Petersburg, Virginia site marks a strategic move to advance our capabilities in Emerging Technologies (ET) within Chemical API development and production. The highly experienced site is designed to strengthen and accelerate our Small Molecule (SMOL) strategy while amplifying our operational capacity. This is to safeguard and support ET´s SMOL projects in the coming years, aligning with our vision and strengthening our potential for growth and innovation.

What we offer you:

• Leading pay and annual performance bonus for all positions
• All employees enjoy generous paid time off including 14 paid holidays
• Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance – effective day one
• Guaranteed 8% 401K contribution plus individual company match option
• Family Focused Benefits including 14weeks paid parental & 6 weeks paid family medical leave
• Free access to Novo Nordisk-marketed pharmaceutical products
• Tuition Assistance
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Employee Referral Awards

At Novo Nordisk, you will find opportunities, resources, and mentorship to help grow and build your career. Are you ready to realize your potential? Join Team Novo Nordisk and help us make what matters.

Enable & inspire the site to "live cLEAN®" by implementing & driving continuous improvement (CI) mindset throughout the site. Provide cLEAN® tools, training & expertise; lead CI projects & initiatives and develop a culture of daily CI by coaching and leading shopfloor personnel and department leadership.

Reports to Senior Manager.

• Provide formal cLEAN® training site-wide to employees, managers & project leaders/team members through teaching, coaching, supporting & continuous feedback
• Develop, manage and lead complex cross-functional cLEAN® CI projects/initiatives for the site, to include assisting all levels of site leadership to develop CI plans identifying, prioritizing & initiating CI activities and ensure follow-through on CI initiative
• Create Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the effectiveness of site-wide improvements and processes
• Develop, lead and/or facilitate CI kaizen workshops, problem solving workshops, failure investigations; assist in developing facilitation skills of others
• Partner across the NNPILP sites to share best practices, success stories and ideas as appropriate
• Apply various lean methodologies to achieve significant, measurable improvement in business, support & production processes
• Provide expertise to site in a variety of other areas (as appropriate): statistical & data analysis, MS Office products, project management, change management, etc
• Own the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) operating rhythm: prepare agendas, decision materials and pre-reads; plan & facilitate SLT meetings and offsites; capture decisions, actions and owners; and drive disciplined follow-up so priorities move from discussion to execution
• Strengthen SLT effectiveness by acting as a trusted strategy partner to the Site Head and leadership team: coach leaders on ways of working, improve decision quality and meeting discipline, support leadership team development and embed digital / AI tools to reduce manual work, improve visibility and accelerate execution
• Lead the implementation of site strategies by coordinating with cross-functional teams and ensuring adherence to timelines and budgets
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging feedback and implementing new processes that…